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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Contextualising Public Intervention in Agriculture and Welfare Effects. 3. Spatial Patterns in Public Expenditure, Subsidies, and Outcomes. 4. Changing Composition of Private Investment and Its Relation to Public Investment and Input Subsidy in Agriculture. 5. Welfare Effects of Investments and Input Subsidies. 6. Major Findings, Implications, and Reflections on Input Subsidy. This book provides a blueprint for the allocation of public expenditures "in" and "for" agriculture at the dis-aggregated state level and suggests a reorientation in favour of disadvantaged regions where the marginal returns on additional investments would be higher. It provides insights into the inter-linkages between public expenditures, private investment, rural poverty, and agriculture productivity from a regional perspective to reflect upon spatial differences in the welfare effects of various investments, subsidies, and policies. The book focuses on agricultural growth and rural poverty reduction through public and private investments, non-farm employment, and other pathways to the formulation of appropriate policies at the dis-aggregated state level. It presents new evidence based on advanced econometric tools for analysing and understanding the relationship between public and private investments in agriculture and input subsidies (fertilizer, power, irrigation, and credit) together with their impacts at the dis-aggregated state level. The book also deliberates on an income based direct support system for farmers as an alternative to the existing input price subsidy regime. Accordingly, the book offers valuable insights not only for researchers working on poverty alleviation, rural economy, and agricultural growth, but also for policymakers.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1. Regional Development in India. 2. Development Disparities: An Exploration of Past Research 3. Regional Disparity in India: A Research Agenda 4. Regional Inequality and Convergence in Economic Growth in India 5. Regional Disparity and Convergence in Human Development in India 6. Regional Variation and Convergence in Agricultural Development in India 7. Development Disparity in India: A Sum Up. This book highlights the development disparities in India and considers three complex areas of development economic wellbeing, human progress and agricultural development over a period of forty years since the 1970s. The novelty of the book lies in its rich analytical foundation and the use of sophisticated statistical and economic tools to determine the causes of socioeconomic disparity between Indian states. The trends of inequality, polarization and disparity are highlighted with regard to income, human development indicators, and agricultural production and productivity. The book also identifies the factors underlying divergence in economic and social activity in India and provides policy suggestions for bringing about more balanced and inclusive development in India.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Contents: 1. Mapping the Terrain: Examining Discourses on Disability and the Family. 2. "There Is Something Wrong with My Child": Encounter with Autism. 3. Unending Care and an Uncertain Future: The Challenges of Parenting a Child with Autism. 4. Shrinking Circles of Support: The Urban Family in Transition. 5. Disability, Society and State: New Mobilizations and Movements. 6. Conclusion: Looking Back, Looking Forward. The book explores the lived reality of parenting and caring for children with autism in contemporary urban India. It is based on a qualitative, ethnographic study of families of children with autism as they negotiate the tricky terrain of identifying their child's disability, obtaining a diagnosis, accessing appropriate services and their on-going efforts to come to terms with and make sense of their child's unique subjectivity and mode of being. It examines the gendered dimensions of coping and care-giving and the differential responses of mothers and fathers, siblings and grandparents and the extended family network to this complex and often extremely challenging condition. The book tackles head on the sombre question, What will happen to the child after the parents are gone? It also critically examines the role of the state, civil society and legal and institutional frameworks in place in India and undertakes a case study of Action for Autism; a Delhi-based NGO set up by parents of children with autism. This book also draws upon the author's own engagement with her child's disability and thus lends an authenticity born out of lived experience and in-depth understanding. It is a valuable addition to the literature in the sociology of the family and disability studies.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1 Introduction 2 Review of Economic Policies and Growth Performance 3 Regional Economic Growth and Inequality 4 Growth and Regional Divergence in Industry and Services 5 Growth and Regional Divergence in Agriculture 6 Structural Breaks and Performance in Agriculture 7 Growth and Structural Breaks in Food Grains Production 8 Spatial Efficiency in Regional Food Grain Markets 9 Inclusive Growth, Employment and Rural Poverty 10 Microfinance and Rural Poverty 11 Regional Disparities in Education, Health and Human Development. Upon the backdrop of impressive progress made by the Indian economy during the last two decades after the large-scale economic reforms in the early 1990s, this book evaluates the performance of the economy on some income and non-income dimensions of development at the national, state and sectoral levels. It examines regional economic growth and inequality in income originating from agriculture, industry and services. In view of the importance of the agricultural sector, despite its declining share in gross domestic product, it evaluates the performance of agricultural production and the impact of agricultural reforms on spatial integration of food grain markets. It studies rural poverty, analyzing the trend in employment, the trickle-down process and the inclusiveness of growth in rural India. It also evaluates the impact of microfinance, as an instrument of financial inclusion, on the socio-economic conditions of rural households. Lastly, it examines the relative performance of fifteen major states of India in terms of education, health and human development. An important feature of the book is that it approaches these issues, applying rigorously advanced econometric methods, and focusing primarily on their regional disparities during the post-reform period vis-à-vis the pre-reform period. It offers important results to guide policies for future development.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. This book discusses emerging issues concerning ageing in India, describes the multi-layered vulnerabilities of older adults in the context of health care and caregiving, and explores social, legal and economic perspectives. It also analyses the existing policies and programmes intended to address these age-related issues and assesses the importance of preventive geriatrics towards active ageing, as well as the current scenario of institutional care for the elderly in India. Gathering fifteen chapters written by leading researchers in the fields of geriatrics, social work, anthropology, sociology, psychiatry, economics, law and mental health, the book presents the latest findings on ageing-related topics such as elderly health, family change, old age homes, age friendly environments and the role of integrative medicine. Accordingly, it offers a valuable resource for researchers, academics, practitioners and policymakers in the areas of gerontology, demography and sociology, as well as all those interested in the study of ageing populations.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1. Urban Health and Wellbeing: Emerging Trans-disciplinary Stream 2. Research Background 3. Geographical Background: Delhi and Mumbai 4. Changing Urban Environment in Megacities 5. Urban Microclimates 7. Strategic Plan for Urban Health and Wellbeing for the Indian Megacities 8. Health Policy, Programmes and Initiatives This book focuses on interdisciplinary issues of human health in the changing urban environments of India's largest megacitiesDelhi and Mumbai. The authors explore human health concerns related to increased temperatures and air pollution in these cities in a study based on primary data collected through interviews, as well as secondary data on causes of mortality from 2001 to 2012. During this period, the surface temperatures for both megacities were mapped using Landsat Images. The rapidly increasing populations of cities and urban centers alter ecosystem services such as water, air and land cover, with disastrous impacts on health and wellbeing, particularly in megacities. In 2015, polluted air was estimated to have been responsible for 6.4 million deaths worldwide, and it is projected that it will cause between 6 and 9 million deaths per year by 2060. In 2017, outdoor air pollution resulted in 1.2 million deaths in India and brought about a 3% loss in GDP. The increase in population, vehicles, and industries has led to changes in land use and land cover and a rise in city temperatures and air pollution, creating urban heat islands (UHIs). Together, UHIs and air pollution have damaging impacts on human health that range from stress and headache to asthma, bronchitis, and chronic diseases, and even to death. Delhi has been experiencing emergency conditions in terms of environmental health over the past two years. At the same time, both the Delhi and Mumbai urban agglomerations are growing at a rapid pace, and the United Nations has projected that they will be the second and third most populous cities in the world by 2025. In this context, the book offers significant insights into the past patterns and responses to the present global urban health emergencies, and explores sustainable means of combating the problem to enable college and university researchers to develop innovative solutions. Further. It presents trans-disciplinary research that cuts across the WHO Action Plan, the Sustainable Development Goals, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, and Habitat III to help policymakers gain a better understanding of the global challenges of urban health and wellbeing.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1. Introduction 2. Population Transition 19502015 3. Future Population Growth, 20152100 4. Fertility Transition, 19902010 5. Child Survival, 19712015 6. Economic Growth, 19512012 7. Demographic Dividend, 20012011 8. Human Deprivation in Villages 9. Child Deprivation 10. Female Work Participation in Villages 11. Population Effects of the Environment. This book addresses central issues related to population and sustainable development in India, the second most populous country in the world. Using the latest available source of data in the context of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, it analyzes the current state of development in India in terms of economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental protection, especially focusing on the role of population. The respective chapters explore various aspects, but mainly focus on promoting greater sustainability in terms of population growth, child survival, and economic growth.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1 Sacrifice Ratio and Cost of Inflation for the Indian Economy/Ravindra H. Dholakia 2 Financing Education in Gandhi's Thought Perspective/Sudarshan Iyengar and Nimisha Shukla 3 Making of State Agricultural Policy: A Demonstration/R. S. Deshpande, J. Prachitha and Khalil Shaha 4 Make in India: Policy Drives and Challenges/Gopal K. Kadekodi 5 Glimpses of the Literature on International Inequality and Catch-Up/K. L. Krishna 6 Holistic Development: The Strategy for the New India/V. R. Panchamukhi 7 Historicizing Development Discourse and Higher Education Policy in India/Naregal Veena 8 The Role of the World Bank in Middle-Income Countries/Ravi Kanbur 9 Education Accounts: A Tool for Managing Educational Finances Prototype for Discussion/Vinod B. Annigeri 10 Myth, Science and Writing: A Valediction to Social Sciences/G. N. Devy 11 Integrating Ethics into Economics/M. V. Nadkarni This book discusses economic development in general and selected public policy issues with a focus on philosophy, Gandhian thoughts and sectoral issues in the Indian context. It presents scholarly contributions on growth and development in India, with particular emphasis on human development in connection with the economy of India and selected developing countries. It brings to the forefront a body of knowledge on philosophy and ethical issues within the domain of public policies relating to development in today's world. The book includes contributions from leading economists and covering a range of issues such as the Indian government's current 'Make in India' drive, the role of the World Bank, managing educational finances, development and higher education policy, inflation, decentralization, inequality, regional development, and linkages between health, nutrition and education. Accordingly, the book not only offers a useful resource for academics, economists and development practitioners, but also has important implications for public policymaking.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Contents: 1. Situating Disability Studies: A Prolegomenon/Nilika Mehrotra Part I: Epistomologies and Representations 2. Decolonising Disability Studies? Developing South Asia-Specific Approaches to Understanding Disability/James Staples 3. Disorder, Disability, Difference: (Re)presenting Autism in India/Shubhangi Vaidya 4. Disability and Public Spaces: Universal Design Approaches/Shilpa Das 5 Ignorance of Disability: Some Epistemological Questions/Anita Ghai 6. Rethinking Monsters: Teaching Disability Studies Through History and the Humanities/Shilpaa Anand Part II: Policy and Institutionalisation 7. Service and Knowledge: The Emergence of Disability Studies Extension/Tanmoy Bhattacharya 8. Disability Education at Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi/Neerja Sharma 9. Establishing a Disability Studies Centre in a Law University: Recounting the CDS NALSAR Experience/Amita Dhanda 10. Mapping Disability Studies Programmes in India: A Case of Hyderabad, Telangana/Nilika Mehrotra and Ritika Gulyani 11. Disability Social Work Education: Emerging Trajectory in India/Srilatha Juvva Part III: AcademiaActivism Interface: Enabling Practices 12. Resisting Dominant Construction of Blindness and the Genesis of Disability Studies in the University of Delhi: A Historical Context/Jagdish Chander 13. Emancipating the Lives of Persons with Disabilities: Potential for Contributions by Disability Studies/Deepa Sonpal and Vanmala Hiranandani 14. The Right to Work for Persons with Disability in India: A Critical Disability Theory Perspective/Nimushakavi Vasanthi 15. 'Encounters' with Disabled People: Concerns from Field Work Settings/Mahima Nayar 16. Examining the Question of Deaf Education within Disability Studies in Delhi, India/Ritika Gulyani 17. Examining the Experience, Barriers and Enabling Measures for Visually Impaired Visitors in Heritage Sites: A Study in the Indian Context to Enhance Accessibility and Inclusion/Kavita Murugkar, Anurag Kashyap and Abir Mullick.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1. Globalisation and the Challenges of Development: An Introduction/Sita Venkateswar and Sekhar Bandyopadhyay Part I: Framing the Macro Environment 2. Compressed Capitalism, Globalisation and the Fate of Indian Development/Anthony P. D'Costa 3. India's Economic Performance in the Post-reforms Period: A Tale of Mixed Messages/Ranjan Ray 4. Post-industrial Development and the New Leisure Economy/Adrian Athique Part II: Food Security 5. India's Evolving Food and Nutrition Scenario: An Overview/Srikanta Chatterjee 6. Beyond Basmati: Two Approaches to the Challenge of Agricultural Development in the 'New India'/Graeme MacRae 7. Millet in Our Own Voices: A Culturally-Centred Articulation of Alternative Development by DDS Women Farmers' Sanghams/Jagadish Thaker and Mohan Dutta Part III: Activism, Development and Changing Technologies 8. Investment-Induced Displacement and the Ecological Basis of India's Economy/Felix Padel 9. Urban Neoliberalism and the Right to Water and Sanitation for Bangalore's Poor/Vicky Walters 10. Bastis as "Forgotten Places" in Howrah, West Bengal/Lorena Gibson 11. ICT4D and Empowerment: Uneven Development in Rural South India/Rakhee Chatbar 12. Paradigms of Digital Activism: India and Its Mobile Internet Users/Paula Ray Part IV: Conclusion 13. Approaching Contemporary India: The Politics of Scale, Space and Aspiration in the Time of Modi/Douglas P. Hill This volume brings together multidisciplinary, situated and nuanced analyses of contingent issues framing a rapidly changing India in the 21st century. It moves beyond the ready dichotomies that are often extended to understand India as a series of contrasts and offers new insights into the complex realities of India today, thereby enabling us to anticipate the decades to come. The editors focus on three major themes, each discussed in a section: The first section, Framing the Macro-Economic Environment, defines the framework for interrogating globalisation and socio-economic changes in India over the last few decades of the 20th century spiraling into India in the 21st century. The next section, Food Security and Natural Resources, highlights critical considerations involved in feeding a burgeoning population. The discussions pose important questions in relation to the resilience of both people and planet confronting increasingly unpredictable climate-induced scenarios. The final section, Development, Activism and Changing Technologies, discusses some of the social challenges of contemporary India through the lens of inequalities and emergent activisms. The section concludes with an elaboration of the potential and promise of changing technologies and new social media to build an informed and active citizenry across existing social divides.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. This volume is a collection of scholarly papers that explore the complex issues concerning English Studies in the present Indian context. The discussions in this volume range from historical perspectives to classroom-specific pedagogies, from sociological and political hierarchies to the dynamics of intellectual development in the English language environment. Interrogating both policy and practice pertaining to English Studies in the context of Indian society, culture, history, literature and governance, the chapters seek to formulate contemporary perspectives to these debates and envision alternative possibilities. Since the introduction of English to India more than 2 centuries ago, the language has transmuted the very fabric of Indian society, culture, history, literature and governance. The idea of India cannot be conceived in its entirety without taking into consideration the epistemological role that English has played in its formation. The present globalized world order has added dimensions to English Studies which are radically different from those of India's colonial and postcolonial past. It is therefore imperative that the multitudinous shades and shadows of the discipline be re-examined with inputs drawn from the present context. This volume is for scholars and researchers of English literature and language studies, linguistics, and culture studies, and others interested in exploring new paradigms of engagement with the disciplinary formulation of English Studies in India.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. This book analyzes contemporary issues relating to energy, environment, and globalization in the Indian context. As a signatory to the Paris climate accord, India has reiterated its commitment to taking strong and positive steps toward climate change mitigation. However, as one of the fastest growing economies in the world, it is battling the effects of a steep rise in fossil fuel usage and pollution. Further, increasing globalization is leading to greater economic activity and production, resulting in additional energy use, which has a negative effect on the environment. The book argues that globalization need not have only a negative environmental impact; it can also have positive impact through the importation of environmentally sound technologies and implementing global compliance standards. The book is divided into three sections: The energy section discusses issues relating to the status of Indian natural gas market and the need for developing an efficient gas market in India; the economics and politics of sustainable energy in India; the challenges of thermal power and significance of clean thermal power generation in India; environmental and policy issues concerning energy use in urban India; the importance of energy use in developing Human Development Index (HDI); and issues relating to renewable energy in India. The environment section then examines topics such as the impact of global warming on local weather by examining the frequency of extreme weather events such as drought and floods, and their impact on farming activities in the Indian state of Odisha; the importance of according the economic value to environmentally significant things like national park , mangroves, etc. for sustainable development; the role of environmental accounting for ecological sustainability and ecotourism; and environmental concerns increasingly gaining traction among the corporate sector for their long-run benefits. Lastly, the third section addresses issues relating to the challenges and opportunities of globalization, such as the interface between globalization and environment; managing India's business interest in proposing new Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT); the challenges being faced by Indian exports and their revival; and making Indian SMEs competitive. As such, it is an invaluable resource for policymakers, researchers, practitioners and students in the field of energy, environment and trade economics.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1. Understanding the Modern in India/Leïla Choukroune and Parul Bhandari Part I: Imagining the Modern: Ideas, Institutions, and Challenges 2. Transgressions, Demosprudence, and Justice/Upendra Baxi 3. From Without to Within: Indian International Law as Modernizer/Leïla Choukroune 4. The Political Economy of Being 'Modern' in 21st Century India/Jayati Ghosh 5. Political Innovation in the Working of Indian Democracy: A Study of the Group of Ministers Device (19992014)/Balveer Arora and K. K. Kailash 6. Three Languages of the Discourse of Modernity in India/Savita Singh Part II: Experiencing the Modern: Makings and Practices 7. Makings of Modern Marriage: Choice, Family, and the Matchmakers/Parul Bhandari 8. Modern Bombay: The Making of an Art Territory from 1850s to 1950s/Christine Ithurbide 9. Modern Mixes: The Hybrid and the Authentic in Indian Cuisine/Ishita Banerjee-Dube 10. Ritual at the Cutting Edge: Everyday Animal Slaughter as Practice and Symbol/Rita Brara Part III: Narrating the Modern: Texts and Travels 11. Religion and Hospitality in the Modern: Thinking with Abdul Bismillah/Simona Sawhney 12. Modernity's Nightmares: Narrating Sexuality in Kerala/Navaneetha Mokkil 13. Exploring Modernism as Reflected in Post-partition Hindi/Urdu Fiction/Sukrita Paul Kumar 14. Latin American Travellers in Modern India/Minni Sawhney 15. Chinese and Indian Attitudes Towards the Past: A Paradoxical Appropriation/Nicolas Idier 16. From 'Savages' to 'Saviours': Genealogy of Santal Portrayal in Colonial Modernity/Anshul Avijit. This book is an ambitious attempt to bring together the diverse interpretations of the modern that have shaped the realities of Indian society. It undertakes not one, but multiple conceptual frameworks to explain the journey of the making and experiencing of the modern. It also points to the loopholes of the modern project and describes the innovations and adaptations and the intended and unintended makings of the modern. This volume takes on a multidisciplinary perspective and fosters an expansive focus as it brings together works from political science, international law and jurisprudence, sociology, anthropology, history, economics, visual studies, history of art, social geography, and the specific lens these fields use to unveil and analyse the 'modern' in Indian society. Divided into three parts: Imagining the modern, Experiencing the modern, and Narrating the modern, this book showcases the multiple ways of being modern, without necessarily expressing the modern as a rational, egalitarian and neat category. Instead, it highlights the ideas of progress and gain and also of nostalgia and loss that mark the practices of modern in India. Most importantly, it explains that there is not one imagining, practice, or vision of the modern for India, but that the modern is constantly constructed, practised, and lived in changing and contested spheres. Bringing together original papers from renowned as well as upcoming scholars, this book crosses the boundaries of the Indian subcontinent to support the development of a new social sciences scholarship both globalized in its vision and outreach and localized in its approach.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1.Tribal Studies: Emerging Perspectives from History, Archaeology and Ethnography/Maguni Charan Behera Part I: Tribes in History 2.The Bhils in the Historic Setting of Western India/Nandini Sinha Kapur 3.Exploring Ethnohistory of Arunachal Pradesh/Tana Showren 4.Historical Reconstruction of the Past of Northeast India: An Assessment of Colonial Writings/Amrendra Kumar Thakur 5.Schooling 'Truant' Tribes: British Colonial Compulsions and Educational Evolution in Chhotanagpur, 18701930/Joseph Bara 6.Vulnerability of Autochthon Paharias of Santal Parganas: Revealing Continuity of Colonial Legacy/Dinesh Narayan Verma 7.Bible Translation in Kuki-Chin of Indo-Myanmar and Bangladesh: A Historical Analysis/Doungul Letkhojam Haokip Part II: Ethno-Dimension of Archaeology 8.Archaeology Through Ethnography: An Academic Treatment with the Study of Human Past/Mayanglambam ManiBabu 9.Ethnography to Archaeology: Tracing the Past of the Tribes of Assam and Adjoining Areas/Dwipen Bezbaruah 10.On the Discovery of Megalithic Art in Manipur/P. Binodini Devi 11.Prehistoric Art and Living Traditions: A Study of Selected Rock Art Sites in Odisha/Dibishada B. Garnayak 12.Ethnography: An Emerging Trend in Rock Art Research/Seema Mamta Minz Part III: Historicity in Cultural Understanding 13.Envisaging Tribal Culture and Decoding Anthropological/Nilanjan Khatua 14.On Worldview and Witchcraft among the Tribes of India/G. Kanato Chophy 15.Yangpi Morung: An Expression of Ideals and Identity/Tiasunep and Neingusanuo Solo 16.Expressing the Unexpressed: The Minicoy Islanders of Lakshadweep/Mohammad Nasir Ahmad 17.Contact and Conflict: Case of Inhabitants of Andaman Islands/Umesh Kumar This book provides comprehensive information on enlargement of methodological and empirical choices in a multidisciplinary perspective by breaking down the monopoly of possessing tribal studies in the confinement of conventional disciplinary boundaries. Focusing on anyone of the core themes of history, archaeology or anthropology, the chapters are suggestive of grand theories of tribal interaction over time and space within a frame of composite understanding of human civilization. With distinct cross-disciplinary analytical frames, the chapters maximize reader insights into the emerging trend of perspective shifts in tribal studies, thus mapping multi-dimensional growth of knowledge in the field and providing a road-map of empirical and theoretical understanding of tribal issues in contemporary academics. This book will be useful for researchers and scholars of anthropology, ethnohistory ethnoarchaeology and of allied subjects like sociology, social work, geography who are interested in tribal studies. Finally, the book can also prove useful to policy makers to better understand the historical context of tribal societies for whom new policies are being created and implemented.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1. Contesting the Present in the Evolution of Public Higher Education/Sudhanshu Bhushan Part I: Structure 2. The Emergence and Expansion of Indian Universities Before Independence: A Historical Perspective/Mona Sedwal 3. Teachers' University Revisit to Dr. B. R. Ambedkar/Sudhanshu Bhushan 4. World Ranking of Universities: What Does It Entail for the Future/Saumen Chattopadhyay 5. Global Wars, National Legacies, and State Controls: The Dilemmas of Institutionalism of Public Universities/Manisha Priyam 6. The World-Class University Discourse: Disentangling the Conflict Between Efficiency and World Class-Ness/Aishna Sharma 7. Idea of a University: Rethinking the Indian Private Universities Context/Sangeeta Angom Part II: Finances 8. Future of Higher Education Financing and Governance/Sudhanshu Bhushan 9. Shifts in the Financing of Higher Education/P. Geetha Rani 10. Pattern and Determinants of Household Expenditure on Higher Education: Evidence from Rural Odisha/Pradeep Kumar Choudhury 11. Impact of Public Education Expenditure Across Different Levels on Higher Education Access in India: A Panel Data Study/Sandhya Dubey 12. Factors Influencing Household Expenditure on Private Tutoring in Higher Education/Anuneeta Mitra and Nivedita Sarkar Part III: Capabilities and Others 13. Higher Education Policy: Accountability Versus Capabilities/Sudhanshu Bhushan 14. Capabilities of Students/Jitsun Lamo 15. Unpacking the Experiences of a Teacher as a Professional Through the Framework of Capability Approach/Isha Verma 16. Understanding Accessibility, Inclusion and Performance of Students with Disabilities in Higher Education: A Case Study of University of Delhi/Shalini Saksena, Rashmi Sharma, and Bipin Kumar Tiwary 17. Freedom from Autonomy: A Critique on the New Managerialism in Higher Education/Amruth G. Kumar 18. Higher Education in India: Refocusing Faculty Development/Neeru Snehi 19. Pathways to Internationalization in Indian Higher Education: Reflections on Policy Options/Rashim Wadhwa. The book analyses various challenges emanating from privatization, globalization and public financial crunch to understand the future directions of higher education in India. The book presents a careful understanding of structure, finance and governance of higher education and advocates a new way to look at increasing the capability of students to secure their future. Attention has also been drawn to the inequalities prevailing in the system of higher education and pursuing inclusive approach so as to have sufficient employment opportunities for students in the labour market. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 deals with the future in terms of university structure and functions, Part 2 deals with the future of financing higher education and Part 3 deals with capabilities required by teachers for the future of universities. It is an interesting collection of various themes in different chapters which are authored by serious researchers. All policy makers, university administrators and teachers and researchers of higher education interested in governance, financing, teaching as well as research in the area of higher education will find the contents of the book relevant. The book will benefit in understanding the challenges of higher education and help remodel the future of higher education in India.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1. Introduction and Overview/Rakhee Bhattacharya 2. India's Growth Performance 20002012: Region-Based Perspective/Biswa Swarup Misra 3. Poor Versus Prosperous India/Madhusudan Ghosh 4. Poverty and Inequality in India: Regional Disparities/Rakhee Bhattacharya and J. P. Bhattacharjee 5. Miseries of the Red Corridor Region of India: What Do the Data Tell Us?/Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay and Nilanjan Banik 6. Intra- and Interstate Inequality in the Northeast Region with Special Reference to Assam/Meenakshi Rajeev and Azharuddin Akhtar 7. Growth, Development Outcome and Fiscal Balance: How Have Indian States Performed?/Pinaki Chakraborty 8. "Inclusive Growth" and Income Inequality in India Under Globalization: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses/Amitabh Kundu 9. Examining the Regional Imbalance in China: Comparison with India/Amitendu Palit 10. The Way Forward: Public Policy to Address Regional Imbalances in India, Process and Outcome/Rakhee Bhattacharya. This book emphasizes the need for experimenting with more deliberate and rigorous policy processes to attain balanced regional development, which can promote both equity and efficiency in India's development discourse. The institutional mechanisms for dealing with regional imbalance in India have not been very successful so far.With rising discrepancies in development, demand for autonomy continues along with a new dimension of regionalism arising from submerged identity along with political and economic aspirations, which demanded new channels for solution. So far, attempts to create space for autonomy have possibly not optimally accommodated the conceptual mechanisms like equity and democratic process. Thus democratizing policy process using six pillars of voice: knowledge, objective, fundamental values, implementation framework and public awareness can ensure a better policy outcome for dealing with the persistent challenges of regional disparity in India. This book further focuses on the need for democratizing the policy process for regional development through discussion and inclusion. Such a transition needs innovation in policy regime, which can be attained through following six pillars (i) Democratic voice of stakeholders in policy development and implementation; (ii) Clear policy objectives that advance the common good, based on voice; (iii) Unbiased, sound and comprehensive knowledge and data bases; (iv) Consistency with constitutional values; (v) A sound implementation framework ensuring user-friendliness,transparency and rationality of decision-making processes, effective grievance redress, clear accountability and independent evaluation; (vi) Public awareness and support of policies with relevant and public participation in implementation.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Contents: 1. Counselling in India: An Introduction to the Volume/Sujata Sriram. 2. Counsellor Characteristics and the Counselling Experience/Swarnima Bhargava and Sujata Sriram. 3. Challenges Experienced by Novice Counsellors/Chetna Duggal and Mithila Rao. 4. Synergies Between Personal and Professional Lives of Counsellors/Sinduja Vummidi and Sandhya Limaye. 5. Beginning the Journey: What Motivates Therapists to Join the Profession?/Chetna Duggal and Sujata Sriram. 6. Exploring Values of Therapists in India/Rashmi Rangarajan and Chetna Duggal. 7. Training in Counselling: Trainers' Perspectives/Sujata Sriram and Sneha Anant Nikam. 8. Exploring Expressions: Therapists' Use of the Creative Arts in Therapy/Afshan Mariam and Aparna Joshi. 9. The Role of a School Counsellor/Sindhura Tammana. 10. Marital Counselling in India: Perspectives from Family Court Counsellors/Sujata Sriram and Chetna Duggal. 11. Telephone Counselling in India: Lessons from iCALL/Sujata Sriram, Aparna Joshi and Paras Sharma. 12. The Road Ahead: Conclusion and Directions for Future Research/Sujata Sriram. This volume provides a critical and reflexive view into the counselling profession in India. Counselling and psychotherapy are emergent fields in India; there is inadequate synergy between theory and practice at present, as psychotherapy and counselling practice in the field have not sufficiently informed research, and vice versa. While research on counselling, the counselling process and training, and development of counsellors is extremely vital for the growth of the profession, practitioners seldom feel the need to wear the lens of the researcher. Drawing upon primary research on counsellors and psychotherapists in different parts of India, this volume bridges this gap and discusses the personal and professional journeys of counsellors at various stages of their career, which in turn facilitates further research on counselling in India. The chapters discuss practical issues like the challenges faced by novice counsellors, which contribute to feelings of inadequacy and incompetence; synergy between the personal and professional lives of counsellors and the effect of the counselling process on the self; elements that go into training and how counselling education could be positioned and developed; the use of creative arts in therapy; and the role of school counsellors and the process of negotiating boundaries among various stakeholders in the school system. The volume also examines ethical dilemmas in the field, which have wider policy ramifications.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Contents: 1. Contextualising Demographic and Development Divide in Districts of India/Sanjay K. Mohanty, Udaya S. Mishra, and Rajesh K. Chauhan 2. Population Trends, Distribution and Prospects in the Districts of India/Rajesh K. Chauhan, Sanjay K. Mohanty, and Udaya S. Mishra 3. Fertility Transition in the Districts of India, 19912011/Sanjay K. Mohanty, Sayantani Chatterjee, Emily Das, Suyash Mishra, and Rajesh K. Chauhan 4. Development Disparity and Interstate Out-Migration in the Districts of India/Kalosona Paul 5. Educational Development and Disparities in India: District-Level Analyses/Sayantani Chatterjee and Udaya S. Mishra 6. State of Health in the Districts of India/Sanjay K. Mohanty, Nihar R. Mishra, Junaid Khan, Guru Vasishtha, and Udaya S. Mishra 7. Maternal and Child Health in Districts of India: Deprivation and Disparities/Basant Kumar Panda, Udaya S. Mishra, and Shubhkant Swain 8. Primary Healthcare Infrastructure and Reproductive Healthcare in Rural India: A District Level Analysis/Pijush Kanti Khan, Kajori Banerjee, and Swarbhanu Nandi 9. Economic Development in the Districts of India/Sanjay K. Mohanty, Anjali Dash, Radhe Shyam Mishra, and Bidyadhar Dehury 10. Spatial Pattern of Development in Districts of India/Sanjay K. Mohanty, Bidyadhar Dehury, Udaya S. Mishra, Anjali Dash, and Rajeev R. Singh 11. Summarizing Development Divide in Districts of India/Udaya S. Mishra and Sanjay K. Mohanty This book is the first-ever volume which provides comprehensive information on demographic, health and development at the level of 640 districts in India. Central and state governments, developmental organizations, national and international NGOs and researchers require disaggregated data at the district level for many practical purposes. However, such information is not readily available for use. The editors, with a close-knit group of collaborators, have compiled data from reliable sources for each district of India and present the results in the form of composite indexes. The chapters rank districts within the state and vis-à-vis all districts of India to help readers understand intra-district and inter-district developmental disparities. They present spatial analyses that depict clustering of development. It is a ready reference for planners, researchers and students and provides scientific analyses that depict the clustering of development parameters at the district level. This volume is meant for a wide readership interested in development in India, across population studies, sociology, economics, statistics, to regional development, and from academics, researchers and planners to policy makers.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1. Concept of Rivers: An Introduction for Scientific and Socioeconomic Aspects/Dhruv Sen Singh 2. Rivers in Ancient India/D.P. Tewari 3. Eternal Relation of Human Emotions and Rivers in Hindi Literature/Hemanshu Sen 4. Landscape of the Indus River/Anil Kumar and Pradeep Srivastava 5. The Ganga River: A Summary View of a Large River System of the Indian Sub-Continent/S.K. Tandon and R. Sinha 6. Ganga: The Arterial River of India/Pramod Singh, Dhruv Sen Singh and Uma Kant Shukla 7. The Brahmaputra River/Sunil Kumar Singh 8. AlakhnandaBhagirathi River System/Sandeep Singh 9. River Ramganga: A Less Discussed Tributary of Ganga River/Ajai Mishra, Shalini Verma and Daya Shankar Singh 10. The Yamuna River: Longest Tributary of Ganga/Nishat and Dhruv Sen Singh 11. The Gomati River: Lifeline of Central Ganga Plain/Anjani K. Tangri, Dhirendra Kumar, Dhruv Sen Singh and Chetan Anand Dubey 12. Ghaghara River SystemIts Current Status and Value to Society/Rajiva Mohan 13. The Rapti River: Odyssey from Nepal to India/Biswajeet Thakur and Dhruv Sen Singh 14. The Chhoti Gandak River: Parinirvan Place of Gautam Buddha/Amit Kumar Awasthi, Vikram Bhardwaj, Shailendra Kumar Prajapati and Dhruv Sen Singh 15. The Son, A Vindhyan River/Chinmaya Maharana and Jayant K. Tripathi 16. The Great Gandak River: A Place of First Republic and Oldest University in the World/Dhruv Sen Singh 17. The Burhi Gandak: Most Sinuous River/Dhruv Sen Singh, Abhay Kumar Tiwari and Pawan Kumar Gautam 18. The Dynamic Kosi River and Its Tributaries/Vikrant Jain, Rakesh Kumar, Rahul Kumar Kaushal, Tanushri Gautam and S.K. Singh 19. Analysis of Mahananda River Basin Using Geospatial Data/Narendra Kumar Rana 20. Hooghly River/Prabhat Ranjan and Alagappan Ramanathan 21 Damodar River Basin: Storehouse of Indian Coal/G.C. Mondal, Abhay Kumar Singh and T.B. Singh 22. Subarnarekha River: The Gold Streak of India/Abhay Kumar Singh and Soma Giri 23. The Mahi: An Important West Flowing River of Central India/Anupam Sharma and Kamlesh Kumar 24. Narmada: The Longest Westward Flowing River of the Peninsular India/P.K. Kathal 25. Mahanadi: The Great River/Raj K. Singh and Moumita Das 26. Godavari River: Geomorphology and Socio-economic Characteristics/Md. Babar and R.D. Kaplay 27. Krishna River Basin/Anirban Das and Meet Panchal 28. Cauvery River/S. Chidambaram, A.L. Ramanathan, R. Thilagavathi and N. Ganesh 29. Trans- and Tethyan Himalayan Rivers: In Reference to Ladakh and Lahaul-Spiti, NW Himalaya/Binita Phartiyal, Randheer Singh and Debarati Nag 30. Major River Systems of Jammu and Kashmir/Aparna Shukla and Iram Ali 31. Rivers of Uttarakhand Himalaya: Impact of Floods in the Pindar and Saryu Valleys/Lalit M. Joshi, Anoop K. Singh and Bahadur S. Kotlia 32. The Major Drainage Systems in the Northeastern Region of India/Rahul Verma 33. Rivers of Mainland Gujarat: Physical Environment and Socioeconomic Perspectives/Alpa Sridhar and L.S. Chamyal 34. Purna River, Maharashtra/Ashok K. Srivastava and Vivek M. Kale 35. Saraswati River: It's Past and Present/G.S. Srivastava 36. Subansiri: Largest Tributary of Brahmaputra River, Northeast India/Manish Kumar Goyal, Shivam, Arup K. Sarma and Dhruv Sen Singh 37. Teesta River and Its Ecosystem/Manish Kumar Goyal and Uttam Puri Goswami 38. Correction to: Cauvery River/S. Chidambaram, A.L. Ramanathan, R. Thilagavathi and N. Ganesh The book presents geomorphological studies of the major river basins the Indus, Ganga and Brahmaputra and their tributaries. Besides major basins, the book explores peninsular rivers and other rivers state-by-state. All types of rivers, i.e. snow-fed, rain-fed and groundwater-fed rivers are explained together in geological framework. Rivers are lifeline and understanding of the rivers, their dynamics, science and socio-economic aspect is very important. However, different sources provide different data base for rivers. But a book which explains all major rivers of a country at a single place was not yet available.