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This book consists of nine analytical essays on the New Democratic Party and its precursor, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, each one providing a distinct perspective on the six-decade history of the party. Topics range from the party's manifestos, national conventions, and election campaigns-including a special case study of the 1988 election-to biographical profiles of federal leaders T.C. Douglas, David Lewis, and Ed Broadbent, to the future of socialism. Based on extensive archival research, content analysis of key manifestos and election pamphlets, surveys of the party's activists, and interviews with its strategists and leaders, this comprehensive study will be an essential reference work on the CCF-NDP.

This is the first selection of Margaret Avison's poems, spanning a distinguished career from the 1950s to the present. One of Canada's greatest poets, twice winner of the Governor-General's Award for poetry, Avison is an introspective modern poet with roots in the 17th-century traditions of metaphysical and meditational poetry. Her complex and demanding work is admired by a younger generation of poets and critics for its originality and versatility. Her recent work records her conversion to Christianity, which now informs all her poetry. Selected Poems is an essential book for anyone interested in Canadian literature and modern poetry.

Delhi's Meatscapes brings together rare archival documents, vernacular sources, and ethnographic insights gleaned from several years of immersion in the city's meatscapes and is the first of its kind for urban anthropologists, economists, political scientists, policy planners and readers who wish to take a hard look at their own (non-) meat choices.

This book situates Bollywood dance and dance reality shows at the center of the changing visual culture in India, and builds upon theories from the fields of anthropology, dance studies, philosophy, media studies, gender studies, and postcolonial theory to tell the story of the transformation of contemporary Indian dance.

This book presents a comparative analysis of multicultural advertising through an empirical study of advertisements in two geographically diverse commercial regions-Europe and India. Showing that there has been a significant increase in multicultural images, symbols, and texts in advertisements across consumer goods-for the 'elite' as well as the 'less elite'-this book argues that there is a growing congruence of values among different cultures. It suggests that inspite of our differences, we are moving, at least in the corporate world, toward a larger unity.

This book explains how the Taliban, who view themselves as guardians of God, think it is their holy mission to protect Islam from the armies of the 'wrong' faiths. Paradoxically, their violent defence of the sacred encompasses worldly concerns such as social justice, peace, and political order. Guiding us to a finer understanding of the Taliban worldview, Sheikh builds a case for dialogue with an enemy that may choose to lay down arms if its grievances are correctlyunderstood.

The idea of citizenship goes beyond a legal-formal framework to denote substantive membership in the political community. While citizenship is identified with an ideal condition of equality of status and belonging, it gets challenged in societies marked by inequalities. As an idea that inspires struggle, citizenship remains an institution that is unbounded, changing, and always incomplete. This short introduction lucidly describes the history of citizenship in India,before moving on to the pluralities and the contemporary landscapes of citizenship. It traces the amendments in the Citizenship Act, 1955 and argues that the legal enframing of the citizen involves a simultaneous production of its other-the non-citizen. This book looks at the multiple margins thatconstitute the sites of constant churnings, releasing powerful new idioms, imaginaries, and practices of citizenship.

This contribution to Political Anthropology, Migration Research, and Postcolonial Studies fills a gap in the hitherto under-represented scholarship on the settler society of the Andaman Islands, called Mini-India. The main actors of the book are migrants from criminalised, low-class, low-caste, landless, refugee, repatriated, and Adivasi backgrounds. While some achieved social mobility through their movement to this ''new world'' for South Asians, others continued toremain disenfranchised and marginal. This holds especially true for the Ranchis, Adivasi labour migrants from Chotanagpur, who are at the centre of an ethnographic case study in the second part of the book.Employing the concept of subalternity to investigate political negotiations of island history, collective identity, ecological sustainability, and resource access, the author analyses various shades of inequality arising from communities'' material and representational access to the state. Far from merely representing them as vulnerable victims of external domination, the author emphasizes subaltern agency in migration, settlement, and place-making processes. Representing characteristic views,practices, consciousness and voices of subaltern interlocutors, the book demonstrates particular strategies to achieve autonomy, autarchy, and peaceful cohabitation through movement, appropriation, and multi-layered means of resistance.

This unique book analyses how further economic reforms and closer relations with East Asian countries could enhance economic growth and integration in South Asia. It makes a powerful and realistic case for a two-pronged strategy in South Asian countries to (i) complete the economic reform process that they had begun in the 1980s and 1990s and (ii) implement the second round of "Look East" policies (LEP2). The book also identifies the unfinished policy reform agendafor each South Asian country and the components of the LEP2 that they should implement.

In the social sciences, civilization is one of the most oft-debated concepts. However, debates around civilization are still framed by Western assumptions and concerns- as with the very idea of civilization itself. Nevertheless, civilization remains a central theme in the Muslim world. Encounter with the concept and fact of civilization is comprised of a series of investigations that include multi-dimensional analyses. The overall objective of this volume is toexpose complex issues for further discussion pertaining to civilization.

This book describes spatially grounded transformations that are unfolding in the domains of production, consumption, social bonds and gender identities in rural India today. These transformations and the engendered emotional experiences that they locally evoke are used as the context to understand 'farmers' suicides'. The book thus challenges the common understanding that 'farmers' suicides' are objectively, uniformly and exclusively marked by 'farm-related' economiccauses. It attempts to locate farm related suicides in the wider complex of rural suicides and explores social meanings of suicide.

This book highlights the status and severity of the most heinous crime, that is, human trafficking, and the role of various international instruments or law enforcement bodies in combating this crime.

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.

Translated from Odiya, Bheda is a story about caste conflicts in the Kalahandi district of Odisha. When the educated members of the Dalit community become conscious of their plight and rise up in revolt, the upper castes unite to take revenge on them and their leader.

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.

Employing rare archival data, back-room surveys, and exhaustive research, Fashioning a National Art discusses how Sayajirao Gaekwad III not only patronized the local arts of Baroda but also mediated a cross-cultural dialogue between the European and indigenous art techniques. This book also presents a rarely documented aspect of Sayajirao - as the lender of the royal collection to regional and international exhibitions and a global tastemaker. Besidestracing the history of elite patrons, famous artists, and European sculptors such as Augusto Felici and Derwent Wood, it also delves into the stories of subalterns such as master ivory craftsman Neelakandan Asari, wood-worker Keshav Mistry, and others.

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.