The development dilemma: displacement in Meghalaya 1947-2010

Fernandes, Walter et al

ISBN: 9788189762568, 8189762567

This publication continues the debate on development and displacement that are two faces of the same coin.

Building from the bottom: infrastructure and poverty alleviation

Kochhar, Sameer et al. (ed.)

ISBN: 9788171888412, 8171888410

Development and tribes: contemporary issues and challenges

ISBN: 9789386611635, 9386611635

Building the Ambedkar revolution: Sambhaji Tukaram Gaikwad and the Kokan dalits

Omvedt, Gail

ISBN: 9789383206599, 9383206594

Bulletin on Food Statistics (1998-2000)

Occupational mobility in an exile community: a social-economic study of Tibetan women in Dharamshala and Dehradun

Rajput, Madhu

ISBN: 9789387023796, 9387023796

The book is an empirical research done by author on socio-economic status of Tibetan women in exile. In early 1960s during conflict, migration and resettlement, it were the Tibetan women and children who suffered the most, as out of their sheltered existence, they became vulnerable to various forms of gender based exploitation.

Public service delivery: does accountability & local institutions matter? A comparative perspective of child nutrition programmes in India

Goyal, Jaya

ISBN: 9789391759339, 9391759335

The book analyses how users, especially the poor, interact and interface with accountability mechanisms esp. the informal ones, when the formal mechanisms of accountability fail or exclude them. Two national public health programmes--National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) are the book's context, using a comparative case study design.

Emergence of the new women: the novels of Shobha De and Bharati Mukherjee

Saleema, P.

ISBN: 9789382186892, 9382186891

The striking quality of this book is its brilliant psychoanalysis of the behavioural patterns of women protagonists painted on a single canvas of universal womanhood by two different authors, cutting across continental boundaries. The selected authors Shobhaa De and Bharati Mukherjee are writers from diverse backgrounds. The former is a well-known socialite and a contemporary Indian writer whil...

Other voices: missionary women's writing and Assam

Phukan, Sudipta

ISBN: 9789355293411, 9355293410

The book deals with the Christian missionary women's writing during the colonial Assam. The women missionaries who accompanied their male counterparts as well as single women missionaries stayed in Assam throughout their lives or for a considerable period of time.

Calcutta then / Kolkata now, text by Indrajit Hazra et al., photo research by Abhijit Chakraborty et al., ed. by Neelam Narula

ISBN: 9788193750193, 8193750195

A pictorial book on Kolkata, capital city of West Bengal.

Camel Karma: twenty years among India's camel nomads, with a foreword by HH Maharajah Shri Gaj Singhji

Kohler, Rollefson Ilse

ISBN: 9789384030636, 9384030635

The Raika of Rajasthan have had a unique and enduring relationship with camels. Their entire way of life revolves around looking after the needs of these animals which, in turn, provide them with sustenance, wealth and companionship. This is the story of the quest that follows to save a globally unique and humane animal culture and find a place for the camel in a rapidly changing India.