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  • Contextualizing Indian Experiences of Covid-19

    People, Pandemic, and Policies

    Edited by Rajesh Kharat, Satishchandra Kumar, Meher Bhoot, Kanchana Mahadevan ...
    This volume captures the social, political, psychological, administrative, and policy dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Indian context. The book is divided into four parts. Part I highlights social narratives from underprivileged workers, ASHA workers, the LGBTIQ+ community, and sanitary workers. It documents their struggles to develop mitigation, adaptation, and resilience strategies. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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    Rise of a Rajasic Nation

    Edited by Gautam Chikermane ...
    Thought leaders from twenty diverse fields, ranging from politics, economics and foreign policy to health care and energy, predict what 2030 will look like for India and how the nation will evolve in this decade.Editor Gautam Chikermane has masterfully weaved together essays by Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, Ajay Shah, Amish Tripathi, Amrita Narlikar, Bibek Debroy, David Frawley, Devdip Ganguli, Justice B.N. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Brand New Nation

    Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India

    by Ravinder Kaur ...
    Series series South Asia in Motion
    A Financial Times Best Book of the YearThe first book that examines India's mega-publicity campaigns to theorize the global transformation of the nation-state into an attractive investment destination.The early twenty-first century was an optimistic moment of global futures-making. The chief narrative was the emergence of the BRICS nations—leading stars in the great spectacle of capitalist growth ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Exclusion, Inequality and Stigma in India

    Edited by NMP Verma, Alpana Srivastava ...
    This handbook critically examines the three concepts of exclusion, inequality and stigma and their interrelationship in the Indian context. Divided into five parts, the volume deals with the issues of exclusion, inequality, gender discrimination, health and disability, and assault and violence. It discusses important topical themes such as caste and social exclusion in rural labour markets, impact ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Overcoming COVID-19 in Bhutan

    Lessons from Coping with the Pandemic in a Tourism-Dependent Economy

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    Bhutan has carried out early and decisive measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), including restrictions on tourists since March 2020. This approach, though effective, severely affected the economy, bringing the tourism and aviation sectors to a virtual standstill. Given Bhutan's limited resources and capacity to cope with a full-blown outbreak, such a trade-off was ... Read more

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  • The Political Lives of Information

    Information and the Production of Development in India

    by Janaki Srinivasan ...
    Series series The Information Society Series
    How the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender, and the implications for development.Information, says Janaki Srinivasan, has fundamentally reshaped development discourse and practice. In this study, she examines the history of the idea of “information” and its political implications for poverty alleviation. She presents three cases in India ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Missing: Half the Story

    Journalism as if Gender Matters

    Edited by Kalpana Sharma ...
    Toilets, trees and gender? Can there be a connection? Is there a gender angle to a business story? Is gender in politics only about how many women get elected to parliament? Is osteoporosis a women's disease? Why do more women die in natural disasters? These are not the questions journalists usually ask when they set out to do their jobs as reporters, sub-editors, photographers of editors. Yet, by ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Ganga Rejuvenation: Governance Challenges And Policy Options

    by Xun Wu, Robert James Wasson, Ora-orn Poocharoen ...
    This book focuses on governance and management issues in the much publicized 'Ganga Rejuvenation Project', led by the Indian Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi. Attempts over the past three decades to clean up and rejuvenate one of the world's greatest rivers have proved futile. The major reasons for the lack of success are absence of long-term planning, poor co-ordination and failure to sustain ... Read more

    $120.59 USD

  • The Gated Republic

    India's Public Policy Failures and Private Solutions

    by Shankkar Aiyar ...
    Seventy years since it became a republic, India has come a long way. But it is still failing on some key fronts.Piped drinking water for all continues to be a pipe dream; homes and businesses are haunted by power outages; the lack of proper primary health care renders the poorest more vulnerable; millions of children coming out of schools lack rudimentary skills; and the security of lives and ... Read more

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  • Displacees and Health: Issues and Challenges.

    by Norvy Paul ...
    Displacees and Health: Issues and Challenges deals with issues of health and challenges in the life of displaced people of the world. This is a collective work of the experts in this field aiming at sketching the life of the displacees either caused by development, armed conflict, racial conflict or disasters.Some of the areas it deals with are:• Health issues, constrains and emerging diseases ... Read more

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  • Special Treatment

    Student Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences

    by Anna Ruddock ...
    Series series South Asia in Motion
    The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is iconic in the landscape of Indian healthcare. Established in the early years of independence, this enormous public teaching hospital rapidly gained fame for the high-quality treatment it offered at a nominal cost; at present, an average of ten thousand patients pass through the outpatient department each day. With its notorious medical program ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • South Asia on the Move

    Mobilities, Mobilizations, Maneuvers

    Edited by Benjamin Linder, Tarini Bedi ...
    Series series Global Asia
    This book sustains and expands the new mobilities paradigm by focusing such theoretical advances on South Asian scholarship. When it comes to analytical approaches to movement, the mobilities turn has been tremendously provocative, particularly in the last twenty years. However, much of that literature remains rooted in the priorities, ontologies, and geographies of the West/Global North. This ... Read more

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