Development, decentralization and democracy: essays for M.A. Oommen, ed. by Ash Narain Roy et al

ISBN: 9788125058779, 812505877X

Bringing together essays critical in contemporary development discourse, this volume addresses the broad themes of development as freedom, equality land human ascent within the framework of democracy and decentralised governance.

Development, globalization and women

Kaushik, Asha (ed.)

ISBN: 9788131605653, 8131605655

This book relooks at development, particularly globalization-driven neo-liberal development, through a gender lens.;The essays address issues like economic and political empowerment, state-market-civil society interface. MGDs, challenges emanating from the socio-cultural structures/norms, gender-blind/neutral state policies, violence/armed conflicts and the sustainability of environment.

Development, masculinity and Christianity: essays and verses from India's North East

Nongbri, Tiplut

ISBN: 9789382396079, 9382396071

Divided into two parts, the first focuses on the economic crisis that plagues the North-eastern states, the spread of Christianity, and Khasi Men's movement against matriliny. The second deals with fifty-two stories in verse on a variety of subjects ranging from gender question to environmental degradation.

Developmental modernity in Kerala: Narayana Guru, SNDP Yogam and social reform

Chandramohan, P.

ISBN: 9789382381792, 9382381791

This study of the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam (SNDP Yogam), one of the earliest social reform movements in Kerala, investigates the relationship between social reform, religion and caste. The Yogam drew inspiration from the ideas of Sree Narayana Guru, which suited the aspirations of the upwardly mobile Ezhava middle class.

Dharavi: documenting formalities

ISBN: 9788171887927, 8171887929

Dharavi: from mega-slum to Urban paradigm, series editor Sujata Patel

Saglio-Yatzimirsky, Marie-Caroline

ISBN: 9780415812528, 0415812526

Dharma and development: the future of survival

Paranjape, Makarand (ed.)

ISBN: 9788190131834, 8190131834

This book is inspired by two contrary trends, the failure of the development project, on the one hand, and, on the other, the remarkable material improvement wrought by spiritual agencies, especially in India why has religious organisations succeeded where government and non-government agencies have failed? How is it that these organisations, with minimal or no support from the government or ma...

Nayantara Sahgal: vision of life

Tirupathi, B.

ISBN: 9788193542149, 8193542142

Nayantara Sahgal is one of the leading women writer of India. In this book there is a great deal of discussion about her views on women, feminism, politics. She is an idealist who as a definite views about India and Indians.

Dalit feminist discourse: voices in Dalit writings,

The Dhimals: miraculous migrants of Himal, an anthropological study of Nepalese ethnic group

Regmi, Rishikeshab Raj

ISBN: 9788182500082, 8182500087

The book captures the mechanism of an agrarian Nepalese ethnic group caught in the crossfire of tradition and modernization. Dr. Regmi, for the first time, attempts to analyze the society of the Dhimals in a purely anthropological perspective.

Dhundhli pagdandiyam (sociology)

Sukl, Rajendra Prasad

Dialogue for development: festschrift dedicated to Professor Jai B.P. Sinha

Pandey, Janak. et al (ed)

ISBN: 9788180697579, 8180697576

This is a festschrift in recognition of Prof.J.B.P. Sinha's contributions on social psychological aspects of development in the context of the developing world. The book covers wide range of topics like social motivation, leadership, social power, values, and organizational development, social policies, etc.

Diametrical nationalisms: rulers, rebels, and masses in Manipur

Ningthouja, Malem

ISBN: 9789350022726, 9350022729

The book analyses the character of the Indian State and the material objectives of Indian nationalism and counter-insurgency. It studies the dialectics of the growth of insurgency, which have been instrumental in the articulation of anti-colonial discourses, and the civil liberties assertions for democratic rights and security.

Diaries of two tours in the unadministrated area east of the Naga hills

Hutton, JH

ISBN: 9788183249171, 8183249175

The diaries throw a flood of light on the geography of the region and also the customs and the kind of life the local Nagas and other tribals led in their remote jungle villages.

Diaspora, multiculturalism and quest for identity, ed. by Sr. Pearl

ISBN: 9789388332101, 9388332105

Diasporic Indian women writers: quest for identity in their short stories

Sireesha, Telugu

ISBN: 9788178510569, 8178510561

This study is interdisciplinary and comparative in nature that brings in fresh insights form disciplines like sociology and diasporic studies with an exploratory study of Indian women writers writing in English and in regional Indian languages in the United States of America.

Culture, space and the nation-state: from sentiment to structure,

Gupta, Dipankar

ISBN: 9789350028438, 9350028433

This unusual book extends the concerns of anthropology beyond the study of village life, rituals and caste observances to include considerations of the nation-state.

Digital queer cultures in India: politics, intimacies and belonging

Dasgupta, Rohit K.

ISBN: 9781138098404, 113809840X

Dilemmas of growth: the Indian experience, ed. and with an introduction by Pravin Visaria et al

Dantwala, ML

ISBN: 9788170364993, 817036499X

Dimensions of development: implications and management, ed. by V.S. Negi et al.

ISBN: 9789351711131, 9351711137