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Political Representation in India: Ideas and Contestations, 1908-1952 maps extensive and wide-ranging debates, marked by contestations and strident demands on political representation in colonial India. Further, it explores these themes during the Constitution-framing process. These debates, previously overlooked, are significant for they helped shape the institutional structures of political representation in the form of the electoral system of Indian democracy. It assists in providing an answer to why and how independent India came to adopt its current electoral system characterised by the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) system. It also analyses how and why the alternatives to FPTP, primarily any form of proportional representation, were rejected. Moreover, the book simultaneously provides a rich and detailed description of how communities, and religious, caste and ethnic categories came to be defined as their demands for political representation were conceded. It also briefly deals with the issue of delimitation of constituencies during the colonial and the immediate post-independence period.

Time, Doubt and Wonder in the Humanities addresses a serious lacuna in humanities studies. It affirms our commitment to wonder and adventure in living by confronting the subtext that lies within the manifold worldly, social and political vicissitudes and tribulations. The essays in this volume speak to our times and make sense of the idea of temporality in general by using wonder as an inclusive metaphor, which engulfs fortitude, anguish, joy, providence, submission, precariousness and revulsion. Wonder could lead to curiosity to inspiration to doubt to questioning to indignation to seeking of justice. The book offers a benchmark in thinking about why we must take literature and art seriously in times of great political turmoil. It affirms that the shape and contour of literary studies shall depend on how the coming generation maintains a delicate balance among inspiration, doubt and faith.

The journey of a boy that began from a little- known village of Mathak in Gujarat, India, culminated in the creation of East Africa’s biggest business groups to straddle the industrial world of steel, cement, infrastructure and aviation. This is the inspiring story of Narendra Raval, endearingly known as ‘Guru’, who began from the most humble beginnings to reach the zenith of his career through tireless hard work, an inherent business acumen and sheer tenacity.His autobiography, in collaboration with his dear friend and colleague, Kailash Mota, traces four decades in the life of Guru Bhai Narendra Raval. It is hard to believe that the astute businessman, who successfully built aUS$400 million industrial empire, began his work life as a young, teenage priest in Nairobi, Kenya. Today, Guru Bhai runs his business empire with more than 4,500 employees spread across East Africa. He was also featured among the top 50 richest men in the Forbes Africa 2015 list.A fascinating, awe-inspiring autobiography, A Long Walk to Success is a legacy of wisdom and guidance for young entrepreneurs inspiring to walk in Guru Bhai’s footsteps.

Heiress Kamila Mughal is humiliated when her brother's best friend snubs her to marry a social climbing nobody from Islamabad. Roya discovers her fiancé has been cheating on her and ends up on a blind date on her wedding day. Beautiful young widow Begum Saira Qadir has mourned her husband, but is she finally ready to start following her own desires? Inspired by Jane Austen and set in contemporary Pakistan, Austenistan is a collection of seven stories; romantic, uplifting, witty, and heartbreaking by turn, which pay homage to the world's favourite author in their own uniquely local way.

The teachings of The Buddha, can with the correct interpretation be a game-changer. They enable healing, improvement and transformation not only for ourselves but our world and reality as well. There are ways to attract fewer problems, less negative people, less negative outcomes and thereby less negative emotions. There are instead ways to attract better people, better places, better work and better outcomes leading to more positive emotions. One can take charge and control of life. The extra-ordinary wisdom of The Buddha is presented in terms of three key strategies which when implemented lead to our spiritual innovation. We become wiser, release our great potential, create new possibilities and lead ourselves to better work, a better life and a better destiny.

For the young English educated Indian, from the big cities to the small towns, across gender and across all classes, India''s BPO boom changed their lives. They found themselves in the throes of an industry that matched their energy and insatiable hunger for action. Satindra Sen who was part of the team that set up one of the country''s first offshoring ventures writes an engaging tale tinged with sharp humour and piercing insight of how things were and how they turned out to be.

Passion, purpose, potential, perseverance are the qualities required to make great achievers and leaders. This book tells you how to ┬╖ turn people into leaders ┬╖ build trust and confidence ┬╖ make you reach your destiny ┬╖ transform your organization

Books on management and organizations usually ignore the human factor. This unorthodox book marks a radical departure in how organizations should be understood. It deals with human issues and relationships between groups. Though serious, it makes for easy reading and is written with humour. How Organizations Really Work is the perfect companion for an employee at any level; for those who want to step back and look objectively at what''s happening around them and make sense of it. It is also for management students accustomed to impractical diets of theory. Exclusive mind-maps at the end of each chapter help the reader make connections between the concepts discussed and entities, while the wildly funny stories provide a much-needed welcome break. Beginning with the reasons why organizations exist, the author examines how authority flows down from the board to everyone else. Marketing, Sales, Human Resources, Finance, Information Systems and Operations are examined first theoretically and then through the eyes of a practitioner who knows where theory falls short.