This report discusses competitive bidding models for infrastructure projects and critical factors required for a minimum subsidy model to succeed. Models on auction bidding for rural infrastructure, e-governance, and multi-channel delivery mechanism. The report explores different forms of partnerships between government, NGOs, private sector, and users in the delivery of infrastructure services.

Partners in development: India and Switzerland / Gerster, Richard. --New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2008

The book brings in a note of uncertainty about the future of development programmes in India. Its ends by pointing out that there are many issues that can be resolved only through international cooperation.

India today occupies the centre stage in the global arena, and economists the world-over are bullish on India's unprecedented economic growth in the last ten years and its growth prospects for the future. The author argues that this situation is a result of the first generation economic reforms, initiated primarily by the central government.

Sustaining India's growth miracle / Bhagwati, Jagdish N., ed. --New Delhi: Stanza, 2008

The contributors to this volume analyse the forces behind India's emerging role as a world economic player and identify the hidden weakness that, if unaddressed, may slow the country's growth. Contributors suggest how to transform India's primarily rural population into a gainfully employed modern sector; methods to achieve fiscal sustainability and consolidation; how to deal with infrastructure bottlenecks, especially in terms of finite energy resources; and given the country's complex electoral government and global political position, ways to overcome the obstacles to effecting policy reform.

The volume focuses on policy issues aimed at ensuring continuous availability of different forms of energy at an appropriate price reflecting social costs as opposed to private costs. The term energy security essentially implies that energy systems should be geared to meet the demand of households both urban and rural and commercial users at all times.

Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister. Born five years and seven thousand miles apart, they became embodiments of the nations they led. Both became living icons, idolised and admired around the world. Today, they remain enduring models of leadership in democratic society. This book reveals, for the first time, how that rivalry shaped the twentieth century and beyond. For more than forty years, from 1906 to 1948, Gandhi and Churchill were locked in a tense struggle for the hearts and minds of the British public, and for world opinion.

This collection marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding in 1958 of the Foreign Correspondents' association of South Asia (FCA) renamed the Foreign Correspondents' Club (FCC) in 1991. This book, with its collection of reportage, comment and photographs, reflects this story. It does not seek to cover every event in the decades since 1947, but focuses instead on good writing and historic moments that give a picture of how foreign correspondents have covered the region.

This handbook represents the latest thinking in the field of technology and innovation management, with an up-to-date overview of the key developments in the field. Under the separate but related headings of the evolution of technology,  markets, and industry; the development and introduction of new products; the management and organisation of innovation; technology strategy; and who innovates; leading scholars contribute essays that chart the improvement debates and emergent issues in the complex field of technology and innovation management.

This book is a book about a trauma which transformed the subcontinent and still exerts a powerful influence today. These are personal narratives bringing to life a lost world of harmonious relations which each author in his own way is striving to recreate.

In this book the author explores the relevance of communitarian institutional approach for sustainable management of renewable natural resources in Rajasthan. The book is interdisciplinary and closely verifies institutional development within the power theoretic framework. Moving from case to case, it researches for conceivable strategy for equitable management of renewable natural resources in the public domain. Despite the fact that the rural society is socially and economically heterogeneous, the book reveals that institutional sustainability against the backdrop of unequal power relations may succeed in restoring degraded eco-system by means of expanding bio-diversity.

Non-governmental Organizations

The book attempts to bring together the articles, papers, documentary excerpts and discussion notes, a broad spectrum profile of means, measures and motivations of the most vital segment of the development machinery. The compilation includes materials on several significant aspects of participatory development and voluntary action and initiatives, such as: NGOs in villages and grassroots development; training needs of NGOs- a case study of Delhi; the unorganised sector as target group; family health perspectives and NGO action; and public policy in relation to public initiative.

The City in action: Bombay struggles for power / Maselos, Jim. --New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007

The essays in this volume revisit the city of Mumbai and the many facets of its political life from the 1880s to the 2000s. They trace the metamorphosis of Mumbai from a colonial port city under foreign rule into a metropolis and the prime commercial centre in independent India. Mumbai's urban transition and its dramatic and continuing change in physical shape and urban morphology form the backdrop for these essays.

The primary aim of Islamic militants in Asia has generally been to destabilise and overthrow targeted regimes by isolating them morally and physically from their domestic support bases and degrading their material resources and security infrastructure. Militant Islam has assumed a menacing form in the recent years in different parts of South Asia and its threats are gradually becoming more virulent because it employs terrorism combined with armed insurgency and subversion as a means of undermining the secular and democratic traditions of targeted countries in a systematic manner.

The handbook offers state-of-the-art view of discussions about the concept of social capital and the way in which it has been applied in empirical research. The book provides an authoritative and innovative introduction to the study of social capital.

This book presents a new look at the relationship between people and society, produces a semiotic theory of cultural psychology and provides a dynamic treatment of culture in human lives. The book focuses on the construction of semiotic methodology for the social sciences. Empirical evidence from the world over is brought into discussion in order to demonstrate the basic humanity that is present and expressed in different forms.

Combining cultural critique, interviews, autobiography and ethnography, the book is a compelling account of the public spaces of modernity as they are transformed into new, more troubling landscapes.

This book contains over 50 momentous and thought-provoking speeches from a wide range of historical eras and nations, and will both inspire readers and give them a greater understanding of the events of the time. Each speech is accompanied by a comprehensive introduction that explains its historical background, why it was significant and what happened as a result. A biography of each speechmaker explains how they came to stand at the crossroads of history.

This book outlines the contemporary issues and challenges that confront both nations and communities of the South Asian region, particularly India, where control over water has always been a symbol of social and political power. The book brings together cutting edge interdisciplinary perspectives from renowned scholars on the histories, politics, ecologies and cultures of water.

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This book examines the residential, policed, and infrastructural landscapes of New and Old Delhi under British Rule. The first book of its kind to present a comparative history of New and Old Delhi. This book also undertakes a critique of colonial governmentality on the basis of the lived spaces of everyday life.

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