Product Description: Mahatma Gandhi, one of the greatest global icons of all times, is known as much for his successful leadership of India’s non-violent anti-colonial freedom movement as for his virtue and simplicity. His ideals have inspired diverse social and political movements across the world: against apartheid in South Africa, racial segregation in the United States, several state policies and actions in India and nuclear weaponisation, and for environmental sustainability and world peace...read more

Product Description: In this book, researchers from prominent academic institutes in Gujarat examine objectively the much talked about Gujarat model-the growth process in the state in the past decade or so. Apart from examining the validity of the theory and policy framework underlying the economic reforms in India, the book examines in depth the interpretation and implementation of this framework in Gujarat and studies the inclusiveness of the growth in terms of achieving development goals...read more

Product Description: Gujarat has been at the centre of media attention since March 2002 when a communal frenzy of the worst nature affected the state creating raw tensions between various groups. But Gujarat happens to be one of the fastest growing states of the Indian Union and it is characterized by a long-term process of capitalist development, both in agriculture and industry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume is part of an on-going series on land reforms and focuses on the states of Gujarat and Maharashtra. It analyses land reform legislation, their implementation, and the factors responsible for their success or failure.

Product Description: This volume, the fourth in the series entitled Readings in Indian Government and Politics, examines non- or extra-institutional collective actions as agents of political and social changes, and social movements as a defining force in the political process.

Product Description: This book looks at various aspects related to Dalit identity, movements, and political participation through institutional channels. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The outbreak of a deadly infectious disease (widely believed to be the pneumonic plague) that gripped Surat, IndiaÆs 12th largest city, in 1994, created widespread panic not just in the country but throughout the world. Though the disease was controlled within a week, it has raised many fundamental and still unresolved issues concerning the state of the public health system and the path of urban development in India...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)