Business enterprises

In tracing the modern-day evolution of business communities in India, this book is the first social history to document and understand India's new entrepreneurial groups. The book explores the transformation of the Indian entrepreneurial class through the entry into it of large numbers of farmers-turned-capitalists.

Corruption

In March 2001, the website Tehelka broke operation West End, the biggest undercover news story in Indian journalism. The author does a forensic study of the imperatives at the root of it, the characters and heroes and villains of the story, and of how the system got back: by obfuscating, by attempting to destroy Tehelka and its investors. The author shows how the government used instruments of democracy to destroy the investors without leaving any footprints. The story is related by numerous participants of the same incidents and, of course, none of the stories tally.
 

Democracy

The book is an account of how Indian popular democracy works on the ground. Setting itself against conventional theories of democratization, the book shows how the political rise of one of the most assertive and politically powerful communities in north India-the Yadavs-is situated within a wider process of the vernacularisation of democratic politics, foregrounding the ways in which values and practices of democracy become embedded in particular cultural and social practices and thus become entrenched in the consciousness of common people.

Economics

The book brings the vital issues confronting India today an India at the cusp of a fundamental transition. The book is the compilation of articles on Indian economy, financial crisis, infrastructure, globalization etc. authored by real-world practitioners who have special insights.

The objective of the book is to substantiate and to critically analyse some of the various changes Indian has been through in the post 1991 decade. 1991 was a watershed year in contemporary India even if one could argue that the premises of this landmark are to be found before; especially when Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi tried to break away from traditional Congress policy orientations. On the political front Congress Party could not gather enough votes to rule on its own, foreshadowing harder times and new political alignments at work, with the rise of regional parties and the empowerment of hitherto-marginalised segments of society. These essays explore this crucial and fascinating intervening process.

Agriculture is a vital development tool for achieving the Millennium Development Goal that calls for halving by 2015 the share of people suffering from extreme poverty and hunger. That is the overall message of this year's World development report (WDR), the 30th in the series. This report provides guidance to governments and the international community on designing and implementing agriculture-for-development agendas that can make a difference in the lives of hundreds of millions of rural poor.

Environment

The book offers perspectives on governance structures for sustainable development. This is a book that asks hard questions and provides thoughtful answers. While the world cries out for leadership or innovative collaboration involving multi-stakeholders to address the challenges of globalization, environmental degradation and climate change, people are much less willing to address governance, both domestically and internationally, because the dysfunctionalities of our politics and economics are so entrenched. This book inconveniently opens Pandora's Box and demands attention.

Environmental Health

The book examines the relationship between the physical environment and human health. The book takes an epidemiologic approach, eschewing anecdotes for evidence desired from human studies.

Ethics

The book reviews classic communication ethics approaches and extends the conversation about dialogue and difference in public and private life. Introducing communication ethics as a pragmatic survival skill in a world of difference, the authors offer a learning model that frames communication ethics as arising from a set of goods found within particular narratives, traditions, or virtue structure that guide human life.

History

These fifteen personal essays provide an insider's take on wide-ranging issues: from the Brahmaputra and the use of natural resources to peace talks in Nagaland; from the Centre's failure to repeal the hated Armed Forces Special Powers Act, threats to the environment, corruption in government and extortion by armed groups to New Delhi's look East Policy and much more. The book is a passionate call to all stakeholders in the North-East to embrace dialogue and use given platforms for peace, to go beyond the politics of tolerance to that of mutual respect. Only such multi-disciplinary, innovative approaches, rooted in realism, can bring stability and sustainable change to the region.

History/Biography

The journal covers geography, astronomy, statecraft, military strategies and weapons, battles, large and small, flora and fauna, biographies and family chronicles, pen portraits of potentates, courtiers and artists, social mores, poetry, music and paintings, rowdy wine parties, tours of historical monuments, and reflections on human condition. Babur's prose is astonishingly sinewy and lucid, devoid of hyperbole or establishment.

Indian Railways

The book reveals for the first time how the Indian Railways transformed from near bankruptcy to post US$ 6 billion annual cash surplus in 2008. Using data, analyses, and insight, the book reveals how the turnaround story was scripted in just four years between 2005 and 2008. The book contains valuable insights on alternative strategies which were able to get results when conventional prescriptions could not be applied.

Law

This important new work is an insider's account of the role of the Supreme Court of India in interpreting the main themes of the Constitution and in formulating contemporary public law in the country. It assesses the collective strength, as well as the fragility, of the Court as an institution of governance. The author examines the challenges which the highest court of the land has faced during its difficult, but exciting journey of nearly six decades.

Literature

The author explores partition as the founding trauma of the Indian nation-state and traces the consequences of making off Indian from Pakistani and the positioning of the Indian Muslims as strangers within the nation. The book envisions the radical possibilities of going beyond tolerance to living well together.
 

Management

The breakthrough book that links know-how-the skills of people who know what they are doing- with the personal and psychological traits of the successful leader. Know-How is the missing link of leadership. By showing how the eight know-hows link to, interact with, and reinforce personal and psychological traits, the author provides a holistic and innovative portrait of successful leaders of the twenty-first century.

Military Science

The author traces President Ahmadinejad's radical roots and involvement in an organisation with terrorists links to his impact on Iran's weapons programme. The author reveals new details on Iran's meddling in Iraq and its broader goals for the future of the Middle East. This is the authoritative account to date of the looming threat Iran poses to the United States and the Persian Gulf region.

Non-governmental Organisations

This book provides complete and up to date postal address, e-mail address, telephone number and fax numbers, person to be contacted in the field or area for which the agency provides funds and/or other service to NGOs. List of fellowship programmes for development workers. Subject-wise index of various funding and support agencies included in this book.

The book reflects the adoption of inter-disciplinary approach so very necessary to comprehend the nature, role and the dynamics of the NGO world. It brings the perspectives from political science, public administration, social work, sociology, history, philosophy, development economics and environment under one roof in examining the issue of people's participation through NGOs in rural-urban development, women’s' development, environmental development and nation-building in India.

NGOs/NPOs have important role to play in the development of any civilized society. They are instrumental in improving the living conditions of downtrodden, neglected, destitute, SC/ST, backward classes and underprivileged people of the society. The book covers A to Z about funding schemes, procedure, application forms and other relevant material.

NGOs/NPOs have important role to play in the development of any civilized society. They are instrumental in improving the living conditions of downtrodden, neglected, destitute, SC/ST, backward classes and underprivileged people of the society. The book covers A to Z about funding schemes, procedure, application forms and other relevant material.

Social Problems

The book offers a rigorous overview of the twenty-three of the world's biggest problems relating to the environment, governance, economics, and health and population. Leading economists provide a short survey of the state-of-the-art analysis and sketch out some promising policy solutions for which they provide cost-benefit ratios.

Sociology

The author outlines the contemporary diffusion of power throughout the world. With lucidity, insight and imagination, he draws on lessons from the two great power shifts of the past 500 years-the rise of the Western world and the rise of the United States-to tell us what we can expect from the third shift. The challenge of America in the twenty-first is political decline, for as others grow in importance, the central role of the United States will inevitable shrink. The author argues that Washington needs to begin a serious transformation of its global strategy, moving from being the dominating hegemony to role that is more like an honest broker. The book examines the future the world faces is the post-American world.

Terrorism

The book is an attempt at understanding the enormity of Mumbai 26/11. India has seen serious assaults on its democratic institutions including on the Red Fort and its Parliament but 26/11 was vastly different in both its intent and its intensity. The book also details the intelligent failures, critical failures that are in urgent need of redress.

Women's Empowerment

The question of engendering has emerged as a dominant theme in the development theory and practice in the past few days, mainly due to partial achievement of the desired goals of development in terms of attaining gender equality and women's empowerment. The book broadens the framework of analysis of engendering governance institutions by incorporating the institutions of market and civil society, besides the state, with a special focus on India.

New Additions in Author’s Corner 

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Chaudhry, Sujata, A-6091/S

The poems combine protest with tenderness. The author represents the large number of women in our society forced into a life of deprivation.

Koshy, Darlie O-0027

The book attempts to trace and touch upon the evolution and growth of Indian design which makes it possible for design to add and realize value and to create brands in the new age economy. This book is a step towards creating a vision for India to assume leadership in the world design.

New Additions in Delhi Documenta

(For reference only)

The documents presented in this book are a fascinating portrait not only of the three-week trial, with details of arguments for the prosecution, evidence placed before the military court and the defence of the last Mughal. They also describe Delhi at a crucial juncture in its high-voltage history, the leap op national expectations, the mismanagement by ruling elite that had forgotten how to rule, the extraordinary Hindu-Muslim unity at street and sepoy level, and the tragic somersault events that ended in silence, despair and resignation.

New Addition to Electronic Reports

India 2009 is an updated and comprehensive edition of the Reference Annual containing information on varied subjects related to our country like economy, rural and urban development, industry and infrastructure, art and culture, health, defence, mass communication etc. It incorporates sections on science & technology, education, information technology, general knowledge, current affairs, sports, events of the past year and latest ones too.

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