India after the Global Crisis assesses India s resilience in the face of the global financial crisis but then shows how the global crisis and our domestic policy failures have taken a toll on India s economic performance: growth has slowed significantly, inflation has remained high, the external current account deficit has more than doubled, and the rate of domestic investment has fallen. Dr…
This book is an exercise, by regional specialists, in assessing the different dimensions of India-ASEAN relations. As the Asia-Pacific has become the foci of great power involvement, one cannot ignore the relevance of such involvement to India-ASEAN relations. Dealing with ASEAN means engaging its individual member countries as well as those other powers and forums affiliated with that organiza…
This book dwells upon a wide range of issues, including the nature of maritime trade of the Sassanids with India; the impact of maritime trade on the political processes of Goa; the social processes linked with the settlements of foreign merchant groups in India; the nature of the Portuguese expansion in coastal India; and the nuances of political assertions over maritime centres of exchange an…
This book presents about a new India rising up and it is going to change the world from bollywood to world financial markets from IT to manufacturing from service to design.
This book is a significant contribution to the growing debate in India on national security and the country's role in the emerging international system. The author, Mr Jaswant Singh, now the Deputy Chairman, planning commission is the political leader of highest standing to address the issues of security and foreign policy in the last 50 years of Indian independence in an analytical way in a bo…
This topical and important book comes at time when India's position on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) has aroused controversy in International for a, when the international order and its attendant security compulsions are undergoing significant changes, and when the world is taking rapid technological strides.
Fundamental Rights are of great importance for individual freedom, but these fundamental rights are a very minimal set of rights and therefore, human rights, which are derived from the inherent dignity of the human person and cover every aspect of life and not just a small number of preferred freedom against the State, have tremendous significance. For the large number of people in a developing…
The concept of human rights has assumed importance globally during the past few decades and has international significance as every country is subject to international scrutiny by the world body which indicts member states for violations. While there is increasingly widespread concern for universal respect and observance of human rights, gross violation of internationally recognize norms contin…
Number of eminent policymakers, academicians and senior industry representatives address important policy challenges facing India as the country intensifies its engagement with the global economy.
This book provides a look at the current status and future potential of sustainable development in India. Macroeconomic developments, regional disparity and poverty situation, the trend in natural resource depletion and environmental degradation, trajectory of economic development, and conventional wealth are discussed.