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E-business is a comprehensive textbook specially designed for management students that has been written in a simple and lucid language in the Indian context. The text and theory is suitably illustrated with numerous examples, exhibits, and case studies.

Revolution in Nepal is a comprehensive study of the People's War in Nepal that was waged by the Maoist party.

After decades of disappointing performance a combination of sound macro policies and a commodity price bonanza has led to a dramatic and long overdue surge in African growth rates and concomitant improvement in social indicators. However, this impressive performance has now created its own challenge for African leadership.

Health and medicine rarely constitute object of enquiry in the social science literature in India. Given the fact that experience of disease and its detection are deeply embedded in social settings, foundational questions on the meaning and experience of health and on the role of medicine have to be raised. Drawing upon published social science research in the field, this book discusses many of these questions. It also brings medical pluralism into the heart ofsocial theory of health and medicine, that has hitherto been labouring under the assumption of medicine in the singular, namely, western bio medicine.

This work focuses exclusively on Rabindranath Tagore's sermons/addresses and miscellaneous prose writings on religion originally written in Bengali.

This book provides a fresh perspective on the Indian Economy in moving away from the standard focus on underdevelopment and reforms to dynamic change and constraints that emerge in the process. Acknowledged experts on the Indian economy analyse unique features of India's path and explore interesting paradoxes. Despite inclusive political institutions, better governance and local empowerment is still a work in progress. Analysis of factors strengthening inclusiveeconomic institutions is the unifying theme of this volume and these factors are also the real source of dynamism.

This introduction to the Political Economy of Reforms in India discusses the political economy of the country's growth, globalization and welfare. It finds that political economy of growth and globalization are intimately connected. And, the political economy of welfare, though dependent to a much greater extent on state intervention than growth, is critically dependent on the growth process.

Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures is designed to meet the requirements of undergraduate students of civil and structural engineering. This book will also prove useful for postgraduate students as also serve as an invaluable reference for practising engineers and researchers.

Delving into the social location of middle classes in India, this work explores what it means to be middle class in the south Indian city of Hyderabad. Taking into account aspects such as education, marriage, community values, and contemporary trends, the book highlights the centrality of moral discourses in the co-production of class and gender in urban India. Through the lens of moral respectability, the author discusses how middle class sensibilities are embracedand reproduced by the Hyderabadis.

This book, making a departure from the conventional way of writing law books, comprehensively analyses the principles of law of sale of goods with emphasis on Indian and British case laws.

This collection of fifteen essays by eminent economist Deepak Nayyar provides an unusual blend of theory and policy, of applied research and empirical work, and of the world economy and India. It explores a wide range of themes-from macroeconomics and industrialization, to development in the changed context shaped by liberalization.

This book presents an incisive analysis of social formations in present-day Tamil Nadu and Kerala from pre-historic times to early medieval period. It examines the economy, technology, and the process of state formation to understand the transformation from agro-pastoral to agrarian social formation.

This collection provides an overview of India's growth experience from Independence to the recent global financial crisis from the perspective of financial economics. With a focus on growth drivers and financial stability, the volume analyses both macroeconomic and microeconomic policy reforms and suggests strategies for the future.

This book is a detailed analysis of the law on trafficking of children for sexual exploitation covering the developmental phases of public international law from 1864 to 1950.

This collection of essays by 15 distinguished economists in honour of Dr Manmohan Singh focuses on the reforms he initiated and what remains to be done. This second edition includes a new Epilogue and chapter updates which highlight significant changes and recent developments in the Indian economy.

Compiler Design is a textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students of engineering (computer science and information technology) and computer applications. It seeks to provide a thorough understanding of the design and implementation aspects of a compiler.

This book traces the changing, long-term history of the vast Brahmaputra valley region. Examining the political and economic order of Buddhist, Vaisnava, Saiva, Tantric, and Sufis in the northeast, this is a story of how a modern Indian nation forgot its cosmopolitan past and gave itself a new history by forgetting the large numbers of societies centred on women.

In twelve incisive essays covering a wide range of issues, this volume undertakes an interdisciplinary and multi-level analysis and provides comprehensive and critical insights into the dynamics of the development process in these two countries.

Financial Management is a comprehensive textbook for management students with a managerial decision-making orientation and application of concepts through case studies. The textbook deals with the concepts of core finance with emphasis on specialized sub-areas.

This monograph discusses issues of sustainability, ecology, and environment in the Himalayas, particularly among the Tamang people of Nepal. It provides a comparative framework for analysing human-environment relations. The author addresses new approaches to environmental protection, examining the case of Langtang National Park.

This reader brings together essays on various aspects of ancient Indian history. It discusses historiography; society and economy; changing political formations; religion, philosophy and society; and the changes which paved way for new socio-economic and political formations.

This book analyses the many facets-psychological, epistemological, metaphysical-of the repeated philosophical adventures over centuries to explore and explain the indubitability of I-consciousness. While the major focus is on the Upanisadic and the Buddhist traditions, this volume also examines Western philosophical traditions in a cross-cultural philosophical context.

The first novel by the first tribal novelist of south India, Kocharethi maps the story of the Malayarayar tribe in Kerala. Melding history with culture, the work portrays their many struggles: from possession and dispossession of land to the challenges of preserving myths, rituals, social customs, and belief systems.

This volume provides a comprehensive review of the evolution of banking and finance in India. Analyzing monetary and financial aspects of India's reform, the essays cover a wide range of topical issues-management of the financial sector, the role of central banking, and the impact of the global financial crisis on the Indian economy.

This book upholds the idea of learning and education as a means to individual development and social empowerment. Presenting a holistic picture, it looks at learning as an integral part of one's social and physical life.

This volume examines the social and political processes that underlined India's economic transition from Independence till 1991 and onwards. It examines key debates surrounding economic reforms and discusses salient features of the post-reforms political economy.

Part of 'The Oxford Tagore Translations' series, a prestigious project undertaken by Oxford University Press in collaboration with Visva-Bharati, this volume brings together nearly 150 poems composed by Tagore, many of which have been translated into English for the first time.

This collection of memoirs recounts the author's childhood experiences in Sankhari, a village by the sea in Orissa. With reminiscences imbued with a childlike sense of wonder, the book also serves as an invaluable record of village life in early twentieth-century India.

This book discusses the different forms of resistance to colonialism and their role in the formation of alternative modernity in India.