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This book analyses the theoretical and philosophical frames of new (biotic) property, and assesses how its altered metaphysics inscribes itself in the politics of genetic resources. It probes how rights get framed within and by law and attempts to uncover the cunning or duplicitous nature of these rightsthe chasm between their intended benefits and their actual outcomes.

What does innovation mean to and in India? What are the predominant sites of activity where Indians innovate, and under what situations do they work or fail? This book addresses these all-important questions arising within diverse Indian contexts: informal economy, low-cost settings, large business groups, entertainment and copyright industries, an evolving pharma sector, a poorly organized and appallingly underfunded public health system, social enterprises for theurban poor, and innovations-for-the-millions. Its balanced perspective on India''s promises and failings makes it a valuable addition for those who believe that India''s future banks heavily on its ability to leapfrog using innovation, as well as those sceptical of the Indian state''s belief in thepotential of private enterprise and innovation. It also provides critical insights on innovation in general, the most important of which being the highly context-specific, context-driven character of the innovation project.

Povertyand poverty eradication was the predominant paradigm within which Indias twentieth century science policy was constructed. Yet, when we think of science in India today, this earlier priority of poverty eradication is now hard to find. What accounts for this? This volume asks: Has the problem of poverty in India been solved? Or, has it become inconvenient alongside the rise of new narratives that frame India as a site of remarkable economic growth?

Anyone who has seen a wedding procession in northern India would have heard and seen the band of professional musicians accompanying the procession. This book is a detailed and colourful study of India's wedding bands.

Although the filmmaker Satyajit Ray is well-known across the world, few outside Bengal know much about the diverse contributions of his forebears to printing technology, nationalism, childrens literature, feminism, advertising, entreprenurial culture and religious reform. Even within Bengal, the earlier Rays are often regarded exclusively as childrens writers. The first study in English of the multifarious interests and accomplishments of the Ray family and itscollateral branches, The Rays Before Satyajit interweaves the Ray saga with the larger history of Indian modernity and its contradictions. Whilst eager to learn from the West and rarely drawn to simple-minded nationalism, the Rays, at their best, shunned mere imitation and sought to create forms of themodern that were thoroughly Indian and enthusiastically cosmopolitan. Some of the outcomes of this quest such as Upendrakishore Rays innovations in half-tone photography were even appreciated in the West, though the metropolitan careers of colonial innovators, as the book shows, were inevitably constrained by forces beyond their control. Ranging confidently across the history of religion, literature, science, technology and entrepreneurial culture, The Rays before Satyajit is not only acollective biography of an extraordinary family but illuminates the history of Indian modernity from a bracingly original perspective.

Swaminarayan Hinduism is rooted in its formation in India at the cusp of the early modern and colonial period. This book explores the new discoveries, recent research and interpretation of the history, doctrine, devotional arts, and transnational developments provide a foundation for a more comprehensive understanding of contemporary Swaminarayan growth, belief and practice. The themes that trace through the analyses are tradition and adaptation in the historical andsocial process of creating a complex new religious identity in response to social, economic and political changes. The book contains current academic research from several disciplinesincluding history, theology, the arts, architecture, sociology, and migration studiesto analyze how the stories,texts, and arts shape and reveal the thought, devotion, conduct, and socio-religious community that guide Swaminarayan Hindus through major transitions across time and space in several contexts. Swaminarayan is one of the rapidly expanding transnational Hindu movements with followers and institutions throughout India and abroad, especially in the United States, Britain, East Africa and Australasia.

Based on comparative data and interviews with over 90 senior managerial personnel from Indian multinationals, this book provides a comprehensive picture of the emerging multinational firms from India in terms of their internationalization process, competitive advantages, approach to global markets, and future outlook.

This book includes curious stories of the people who inhabited the exotic and vanished world of Nawabi Lucknow, especially the many rogues and villains, some of them British. Using material not used before and containing a number of previousy unpublished illustrations, it takes a look at the undiscovered side of Nawabi Lucknow.

The second edition of Engineering Mechanics is specially designed as a textbook for undergraduate students of engineering. It provides a detailed and holistic treatment of the basic theories and principles of both statics and dynamics.

This book tells an interesting story-of development as seen from the lens of mobility. The grand dynamics of the accumulation of capital have shaped global inequality-this needs to be corrected. Central to this effort will be freer economic migration. Transnational economic migration will be the next frontier of globalization. There is, thus, an urgent need to move to a rule-based, binding set of principles that would require states to willingly cede some degree oftheir sovereignty on matters of economic migration to a multilateral process.

This book unravels the development of Indias intellectual property law and policy in modern times, through chapters focusing on different industries and sectors such as such as pharmaceuticals, publishing, cinema, music, and the Internet.

The book analyses the mind-world relation with a focus on a particular debate in philosophy of mind which has gained attention in recent times the externalism and internalism debate. It explores the history of development of externalistic views which have taught us that we should go beyond these traditional ways of viewing the mind-world relation.

Volume 1: This volume provides a comprehensive treatment of the Indian industrialization process since independence covering all the important aspects: trends and patterns, regionalization, employment, informal sector, corporate savings, tax and surplus, concentration, foreign direct investment, and development of indigenous technology and patents. Volume 2: The Indian economy has successfully integrated itself with the rest of the world in the past two decades. Not only has its external-trade (share in global-trade) grown considerably, but it has also received significantly higher FDI and FII inflows. As a result, India is considered among the foremost beneficiaries of globalization. However, this development is only one side of the story and it has been achieved at a cost of policy independence and increased sensitivityto external shocks. This volume illustrates such costs and attempts to redefine the priorities for a low per-capita income nation like India. Volume 3: This volume is largely a critical review of macroeconomic issues such as monetary policy, fiscal policy, financial liberalization, inter-sectoral linkages, open economy macroeconomics, labour conditions, and inter-governmental fiscal transfers.

Provides a cross-disciplinary analysis by leading social scientists of contemporary India of the transformations unleashed by the introduction of egalitarian and liberal principles of government within the context of the colonial legacy, hierarchial social order, group-based identities and plural cultures.

The novella deals with the resilience of the human spirit. A group of disparate individuals surmount personal hostilities as the survival of the larger group becomes more important than the survival of individual members.

This work is an evaluation of Rabindranath Tagore's much-debated tours to Italy in 1925 and 1926 at the invitation of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. It is based on a vast corpus of reportage available on this controversial Tagore-Mussolini episode.

India Analysed recounts the life and ideas of Sudhir Kakar in his own words and, in the process, gives readers an insight into the psychological make-up of modern Indian.

This work focuses on a neglected aspect in Nehruvian studies and discusses the experiences of the Nehru family in prison during the national movement. The author charts out the significance of the prison experience in understanding the thoughts and ideas of one of the most prominent families which provided leadership during the Indian freedom struggle.

The book discusses Myanmar in the following historical antecedent: pre-independence to the first civilian government; the subsequent political transition from civilian government to military dictatorship, and the transition from authoritarian regime to a democratic government.

This is an outstanding work of collective scholarship from some of the best scholars on Islamic history. It aims to highlight the political and cultural history of the Turks not only within the context of the Indian Subcontinent where they laid the foundation of one of the biggest empires in the world through the Mughals, but also within the context of Central and West Asia.

Based on new translations of Pali texts and rare sources, Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns analyses the portrayal of women in the Pali canon and commentaries. Focusing on the differences between canonical and commentarial literature, the author goes beyond the practice of using the commentaries to merely enhance the understanding of the Pali canon; she emphasizes the differing social and historical milieus out of which these genres of literature were born. Assessing eachgenre on its own terms, the work demonstrates that the Pali canon, contrary to how it has been presented previously, is more favourable to women. The first part of the volume contains biographies of the six best-known Buddhist nuns who were considered to have been direct disciples of the Buddha. These biographies throw light on gender relations as they evolved in the early centuries of Buddhism in India. The life stories also serve as the foundation for discussion of Buddhist women in the second part. From notions of beauty and adornment to family, class, and marriage, various themes in the biographies are explored in this work, andthrough this exploration the changing form of Buddhism in early India is captured.

Advanced Java Programming is a textbook specially designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Computer Science, Information Technology, and Computer Applications (BE/BTech/BCA/ME/M.Tech/MCA). Divided into three parts, the book provides an exhaustive coverage of topics taught in advanced Java and other related subjects.

Engineering Physics is designed as a textbook for first year undergraduate engineering students. The book comprehensively covers all relevant and important topics in a simple and lucid manner. It explains the principles as well as the applications of a given topic using numerous solved examples and self-explanatory figures.

Destination India records the events encountered during the travel undertaken by eminent political scientists Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph from London to Jaipur in a Land Rover in the summer of 1956. It also recounts their academic career of over 50 years spent researching, writing, and teaching about India.

Violence is usually located outside the democratic domain, implying thereby that its recurrence marks less of-and ironically at the same time - a direct threat to democracy. This book contests and demystifies the celebrationist understanding of democracy and argues that violence is embedded in democracy as much as democracy is embedded in violence. Their mutually embedded nature has only helped make democracy violent and violence democratic.

The wife of Field Marshal Sir George Nugent (1757-1849), Lady Nugent could travel extensively and meticulously observed the ways the British imagined themselves in the Empire. Her journal, a significant historical treatise of that time, provides an insider's account of the varying notions of citizenships established by the British colonial rule.

One day, with no warning at all, Radhika's husband Lalit leaves her. Not for another woman, but to find himself. Distraught at first and then angry, Radhika proceeds to rebuild her life and even steers it on her own terms. Saniya excels in creating an atmosphere which suffuses the novella with both sentiment and emotion held on to without break till the end of the narrative. There is a constant knitting of the past and present, building up, however, to a satiricalresolution of sorts in the present.

Moogavani Pillanagrovi is woven around the near-suicidal death of a farmer who loses his land. While the period of the plot is around the 1950s, the story revolves around the farmer's ties with his land and his inability to visualize a life without it-an issue relevant even today. The farmer's death could have been forgotten by the village, except for several puzzling incidents that crop up. Myth and reality intertwine to create a folklore around the landand the farmer.

Hotel Law is the only book for hotel management students and professionals that covers the various laws related to the hotel industry.