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“tikender panwar”

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  • City Limits

    The Crisis of Urbanization

    by Tikender Panwar ...
    Part of the acclaimed Rethinking India series, the volume deals with the issue of unplanned and unchecked urbanization in Indian cities that has worsened the quality of life and widened the socio-economic divide. Through essays by some of our leading experts in policymaking and urban development, this book addresses the major problems and offers necessary solutions—serving as a guidebook on how to ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Secession of the Successful

    The Flight Out of New India | Why Indians Are Moving Abroad | NRI Exodus, Brain Drain, Intolerance & the Question of India’s Democratic Future

    by Sanjaya Baru ...
    Why are so many of our fellow citizens disentangling from the political and economic future of India to invest in the destiny of other nations? Are Non-Resident Indians turning irreversibly into Non-Returning Indians? Is enhancing soft power a fair trade off for losing priceless human capital? And, perhaps most pertinently, is India becoming, after Russia and China, the constricting land of ... Read more

    $6.09 USD

  • Employment, Poverty and Rights in India

    by Dayabati Roy ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    In comparison to other social groups, India’s rural poor – and particularly Adivasis and Dalits - have seen little benefit from the country’s economic growth over the last three decades. Though economists and statisticians are able to model the form and extent of this inequality, their work is rarely concerned with identifying possible causes.Employment, Poverty and Rights in India analyses ... Read more

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  • The Other One Percent

    Indians in America

    by Sanjoy Chakravorty, Devesh Kapur, Nirvikar Singh ...
    Series series Modern South Asia
    One of the most remarkable stories of immigration in the last half century is that of Indians to the United States. People of Indian origin make up a little over one percent of the American population now, up from barely half a percent at the turn of the millennium. Not only has its recent growth been extraordinary, but this population from a developing nation with low human capital is now the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Durable Slum

    Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai

    by Liza Weinstein ...
    Series series Globalization and Community
    In the center of Mumbai, next to the city’s newest and most expensive commercial developments, lies one of Asia’s largest slums, where as many as one million squatters live in makeshift housing on one square mile of government land. This is the notorious Dharavi district, best known from the movie Slumdog Millionaire. In recent years, cities from Delhi to Rio de Janeiro have demolished similar ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • India's Blind Spot

    Understanding and Managing Our Cities

    by Devashish Dhar ...
    A comprehensive study on the phenomenon of Indian urbanization, and what comes with it.Indian policy has been characterised by a denial of urbanization. This has prevented us from meaningfully addressing the blizzard of policy issues that come with the phenomenon: from governance deficit to infrastructure shortfall, from effective management of land to lack of focus on growing city economies; from ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Understanding India's New Political Economy

    A Great Transformation?

    Edited by Sanjay Ruparelia, Sanjay Reddy, John Harriss, Stuart Corbridge ...
    A number of large-scale transformations have shaped the economy, polity and society of India over the past quarter century. This book provides a detailed account of three that are of particular importance: the advent of liberal economic reform, the ascendance of Hindu cultural nationalism, and the empowerment of historically subordinate classes through popular democratic mobilizations.Filling a ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Migration, Workers, and Fundamental Freedoms

    Pandemic Vulnerabilities and States of Exception in India

    Edited by Asha Hans, Kalpana Kannabiran, Manoranjan Mohanty, Pushpendra ...
    The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a mass exodus of India’s migrant workers from the cities back to the villages. This book explores the social conditions and concerns around health, labour, migration, and gender that were thrown up as a result of this forced migration.The book examines the failings of the public health systems and the state response to address the humanitarian crisis which ... Read more

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  • India

    Continuity and Change in the Twenty-First Century

    by John Harriss, Craig Jeffrey, Trent Brown ...
    India has been catapulted to the centre of world attention. Its rapidly growing economy, new geo-political confidence, and global cultural influence have ensured that people across the world recognise India as one of the main sites of social dynamism in the early twenty-first century.In this book, research leaders John Harriss, Craig Jeffrey and Trent Brown explore in depth the economic, social, ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Being Adivasi

    Existence, Entitlements, Exclusion

    by Abhay Xaxa, Ganesh N. Devy ...
    The seventh volume in the ambitious Rethinking India series, Being Adivasi: Existence, Entitlements, Exclusion looks at the process of development and how it clashes with the rights of the Adivasis. The volume serves not as an academic exercise but, in addressing the larger readership, as a prelude to the change that will bring to the Adivasis some measure of their rights as citizens of a ... Read more

    $5.29 USD

  • Caged Tiger

    How Too Much Government Is Holding Indians Back

    by Subhashish Bhadra ...
    What is common between the censorship of the film Padmaavat and artificially high 'minimum' support prices for crops? If the police comes down so heavily on peaceful anti-CAA protestors, why did it not show the same harshness towards those violating the COVID-19 lockdown? Why is an otherwise powerful Election Commission unable to enforce free and fair elections within political parties or fully ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Industrialising Rural India

    Land, policy and resistance

    Edited by Patrik Oskarsson, Kenneth Nielsen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    Rapid industrialisation is promoted by many as the most feasible way of rejuvenating the Indian economy, and as a way of generating employment on a large scale. At the same time, the transfer of land from rural communities and indigenous groups for industrial parks, mining, or Special Economic Zones has emerged as perhaps the most explosive issue in India over the past decade. Industrialising ... Read more

    $65.99 USD