The contents of this book: 1. Why a National Goverment? 2. The Changing Political Systems 3. The Need for Economic Restructuring 4. Social Restructuring and Holistic Perspective
The contents of this book: 1. Demography and Development 2. Education 3. Political System and Constitutions 4. Governance 5. Economy
The fourth edition of the most readable and illuminating one-volume history of India is revised to bring students fully up to date on developments since 1988, including the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, the successive rise of three new central governments to power, escalating violence in Kashmir, Punjab, and Assam, and the effects of accelerating urbanization and rural development. Wolpert pla…
The book provides a timely analysis of the national behaviour of the Indian leadership in its relations with the world community especially the capitalist countries of the west and the communist world. Indian in its foreign relations itself tried to emerge as a leader of the newly independent countries. Contents: 1. Origin of Indian foreign policy 2. India's status as a world power 3. Ind…
The Book is a Pot Pourri about Contemporary India - A Must for a Foreigner visiting India and the less Travelled Indian. A Retired Naval Officer, Ranjit Rai Makes a modest attempt to explain India to Indians and Foreigners. The Book Consists of diverse chapters that merge, titilate, illuminate, argue and offer solutions in an agreeable style. Contents: 1. A journey through India 2. The India…
In the century we are witnessing a major discursive shift in interpretation of relationships between politics, bureaucracy, markets and social concern. The credit for the ring of new changes goes to major developments in the global political economy. These are reflected mainly in repeated assertions of commitment to liberalization. Consequently, over four decades old Indian model of development…
This volume one: Towards independence-the pre-1947 period, studies India and the simon report; An insight into the khilafat movement; Failure of sir stafford cripp's mission; Gandhi and partition of India; India's independence and the war.; The fourth dimension of Indian national movement; History of the act of 1935; The sphere of provincial government under the government of India act, 1935; P…
The Kargil war came out of the blue after 28 years of peace in the subcontinent. It came in the wake of the well publicized bus diplomacy and the Lahore declaration which seemed to herald a new era of Indo-Pak relations. It caught the government of India, the army and the intelligence agencies flat footed. It shocked the Indian people. The war is perhaps over. The intruders have been mostly pus…
Half-a-Century ago on 15th August 1947, India attained freedom from the British rule. This volume three contains chronology of events from 1947 to 1997 and gives a bird's eye view of India's land and people and all important events in India during the first 50 years of this nascent democracy.
The peculiar demographic landscape of J&K consists of three distinct geographical and ethnic groups with conflicting political aspirations. The solution must fulfill the legitimate economic, ethnic, social and political aspirations or people in different regions-Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmir. Kashmir continues to cause concern. Over the years, the problems have assumed dangerous proportions. A Pred…