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How Realist Is India’s National Security Policy?

How Realist Is India’s National Security Policy?

In managing national security how Realist is India in terms of cultivating and using power and especially military power? A conventional view of India is that it has been uncomfortable with realism or ‘power politics’ as a guide to policy. This volume shows that it has been more realist than is generally recognized and that it has increasingly become comfortable with power in the service of its interests. The essays in this volume Examine the different aspects and types of realism in India’s national security policy Include a range of perspectives from academics as well as former military officers and diplomats Focus on India’s military and foreign policy in dealing with China Pakistan the United States Southeast Asia and West Asia. This key volume will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of politics and international relations defence and strategic studies and South Asian studies and to government officials journalists and general readers interested in the external dimensions of India’s national security. | How Realist Is India’s National Security Policy?

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India's Pakistan Policy How Think Tanks Are Shaping Foreign Relations

India's Pakistan Policy How Think Tanks Are Shaping Foreign Relations

This book critically examines the role of think tanks as foreign policy actors. It looks at the origins and development of foreign policy think tanks in India and their changing relevance and position as agents within the policy-making process. The book uses a comparative framework and explores the research discourse of prominent Indian think tanks particularly on the India–Pakistan dispute and offers unique insights and perspectives on their research design and methodology. It draws attention to the policy discourse of think tanks during the Composite Dialogue peace process between India and Pakistan and the subsequent support from the government which further expanded their role. One of the first books to offer empirical analyses into the role of these organisations in India this book highlights the relevance of and the crucial role that these institutions have played as non-state policy actors. Insightful and topical this book will be of interest to researchers focused on international relations foreign policy analysis and South Asian politics. It would also be a good resource for students interested in a theoretical understanding of foreign policy institutions in general and Indian foreign policy in particular. | India's Pakistan Policy How Think Tanks Are Shaping Foreign Relations

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Singular Selves An Introduction to Singles Studies

Singular Selves An Introduction to Singles Studies

This book examines for perhaps the first time singlehood at the intersections of race media language culture literature space health and life satisfaction. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach borrowing from sociology literary studies medical humanities race studies linguistics demographic studies and critical geography to understand singlehood in the world today. This collection of essays aims to establish the discipline of Singles Studies finding new ways of examining it from various disciplinary and cultural perspectives. It begins with laying the field and then moves on to critically look at how race has shaped the way we understand singlehood in the West and how class age gender privilege and the media play a role in shaping singlehood. It argues for a need for increased interdisciplinarity within the field for example analyzing singlehood from the perspective of medical humanities. The volume also explores the role workplace living arrangements financial status and gender play in single people’s life satisfaction. With an interdisciplinary and transnational approach this interdisciplinary volume seeks to establish Singles Studies as a truly global discipline. This pathbreaking volume would be of interest to students and researchers of sociology literature linguistics media studies and psychology. | Singular Selves An Introduction to Singles Studies

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Teaching Competencies for 21st Century Teachers Practical Approaches to Learning

Teaching Competencies for 21st Century Teachers Practical Approaches to Learning

A must-read for every teacher in the 21st century this book provides a comprehensive guide to facilitating joyful sustainable holistic multidisciplinary and active learning. The book discusses different approaches principles techniques and activities for creating a classroom where different learning types can thrive. The methods outlined in this volume help teachers ensure that every learner regardless of background or orientation can engage in participatory reflective self-directed experiential entrepreneurial and collaborative learning and develop holistically. Essential for the 21st century the book highlights the significance of digital technologies and examines how teachers can easily use digital technologies to offer personalized and blended learning. This book is a vital resource for teachers who want to improve their teaching skills and create a positive and engaging learning environment for their learners. This book helps teachers across the globe to enhance learning outcomes in classrooms and subsequently develop the quality of their education systems. This volume is useful to students researchers and teachers in education psychology development studies social work and sociology. It is also an invaluable companion to policymakers and professionals from government and non-government organisations working in the education and social development sectors. | Teaching Competencies for 21st Century Teachers Practical Approaches to Learning

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Look East to Act East Policy Implications for India's Northeast

Look East to Act East Policy Implications for India's Northeast

This volume captures the success of India’s Look East Policy (LEP) in promoting economic engagement with neighbouring countries in Asia and simultaneously its limitations in propelling growth in the bordering North Eastern Region — India’s bridge head to South East Asia. It analyses the instrumental role of LEP in bringing a tectonic shift in India’s foreign trade by redirecting the focus from the West to the East thus leading to a fundamental change in the nature of India’s economic interdependence. Besides discussing foreign trade it expounds as to how LEP made India play an important role in the emerging Asian security architecture and liberated Indian foreign policy from being centred on South Asia. The essays also enumerate the reasons for LEP’s failure in the North Eastern Region and chart out actionable programmes for course correction that might be factored into its latest edition — the Act East Policy. This book will interest scholars and researchers of international relations international trade and economics politics and particularly those concerned with Northeast India. | Look East to Act East Policy Implications for India's Northeast

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The Call for Recognition Naturalizing Political Norms

The Call for Recognition Naturalizing Political Norms

This book builds a case for how social norms are neither mere conventions nor are they merely anthropological phenomena which are relativistic. In other words it talks about how socio-political norms are built out of our natural social behaviour but at the same time also have objective normative validity. The volume puts forth an alternative model called the recognitional model which can help us address some of the socio-political concerns we face in today’s world. It addresses the problem with a purely legalistic framework of addressing social injustice in that law due its universalistic assumptions regarding human nature tends to glide over the particular differences that might exist between people. This book discusses how we know that in our daily lives we value people not only because that person is a legal human being but also because that person is our father mother our teacher etc. There is a whole network of acts of social respect that we engage in with the other in our social sphere which the legal framework can’t quite capture. This volume sheds light on the political consequence of legal reasoning in that it is formalistic in the sense that legal relations can’t successfully codify the immediate epistemic context from which social identities emerge. An introspective work this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of linguistics political philosophy law and human rights and social theory. | The Call for Recognition Naturalizing Political Norms

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Japan from Koizumi to Abe Do Leaders Matter in Constitutional Reform

Japan from Koizumi to Abe Do Leaders Matter in Constitutional Reform

This book studies national security strategies introduced by the Koizumi administration (2001–2006) and the second Abe administration (2012–2020). Drawing on the common themes of ‘normalization’ constitutional revision in particular Article 9 and the right of collective self-defence the volume examines through the theory of neoclassical realism how and why the national security initiatives of the two administrations are different in their extent of normalization of Japan. It shows how the policies were influenced by the respective Prime Ministers who responded to the international environment surrounding Japan during their tenure and were also shaped by internal concerns. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of Asian studies politics and international relations. | Japan from Koizumi to Abe Do Leaders Matter in Constitutional Reform

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The Bhagavad-Gita for the Modern Reader History interpretations and philosophy

The Bhagavad-Gita for the Modern Reader History interpretations and philosophy

What is the Bhagavad-Gita? Is it just a religious text? When was it composed? How relevant is it to the modern world? This book answers these foundational questions and goes beyond. It critically examines the Bhagavad-Gita in terms of its liberal humanist and inclusive appeal bringing out its significance for the present times and novel applicati | The Bhagavad-Gita for the Modern Reader History interpretations and philosophy

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Lives in Motion Celebrating Dance in Thailand

Lives in Motion Celebrating Dance in Thailand

Lives in Motion celebrates dance in Thailand focusing on the diversity of Thailand’s dance cultures and their place in today’s world. Giving voice to eminent artists and scholars on the complex roles that Thailand is pursuing for artful movement at home and abroad the book provides key perspectives on Thai dance traditions and practitioners. It explores the many forms and meanings in contemporary dance changing local traditions in the country the evolution of Thai dance on the global stage and hybrid features of the Thai dance world. The book examines how hybridity has been integral to dance cultures in Thailand and discusses how they have actively adapted and negotiated their knowledge in relation to modernity and globalization. Developing new models standards and sites for dance movement and theater dance in Thai has been advancing in innovative ways whether it is to include fresh forms of skilled bodily movement or to expand in new arenas like tourism and online platforms. Similarly old systems of training which included artists’ homes palaces and temples have been adapted into the new world of modern education media home schooling and new community rituals. A pioneering contribution on Thai performing arts this volume examines contemporary Thai dance cultures in the local national regional and global contexts. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of dance and performance studies cultural studies Southeast Asia studies and art. | Lives in Motion Celebrating Dance in Thailand

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Technology Policy and Inclusion An Intersection of Ideas for Public Policy

Technology Policy and Inclusion An Intersection of Ideas for Public Policy

Technology Policy and Inclusion looks at the intersections between public policy and technology in India. It explores the barriers in instituting effective governance and development and examines how these can be mitigated through technological interventions in developing countries. Increased digitisation of the economy has added to the development challenges in India and issues such as exclusion and social inequality. This volume stresses the need for governments to leverage technology to bring more vulnerable and marginalised groups into the fold of financial and social inclusion. It also focuses on the importance of regulation for a responsible integration of technologies and minimising risks. The book includes examples and case studies from different areas including management of the COVID-19 pandemic through digital means real estate digital infrastructure digital census e-markets for farmers and government interventions that use technology to deliver financial services in remote areas of the country. It also outlines various solutions for fostering equity and socio-economic development. Part of the Innovations Practice and the Future of Public Policy in India series this volume will be of interest to students and researchers of public policy political science development studies and sociology as well as policy professionals and technocrats. This book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Technology Policy and Inclusion An Intersection of Ideas for Public Policy

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Kala Pani Crossings Gender and Diaspora Indian Perspectives

Kala Pani Crossings Gender and Diaspora Indian Perspectives

This volume explores the intersections of diaspora and gender within the diasporic and Indian imagination. It investigates the ways in which race class caste gender and sexuality intersect with concepts of home belonging displacement and the reinvention of the nation and of self. Positioning itself as a companion to Kala Pani Crossings: Revisiting 19th century Migrations from India’s Perspective (Routledge 2021) the present book examines whether indentureship and diasporic locations marginalised women and men or empowered them; how negotiations or resistances have been determined by race class caste or ethnicity; how traditional standards of Indianness and gender relations have been reshaped; how ideas of home self and the nation have been impacted in the diaspora and in India after the 19th and early 20th century indentureship migration; and what 21st century Indians stand to gain by theorizing the legacy of 19th century indenture through a gender framework. To understand how fiction and non-fiction writers have negotiated the legacy of indentureship to create spaces where normative practices can be interrogated and challenged the book gives pride of place to interviews with writers such as Cyril Dabydeen Ananda Devi Ramabai Espinet Davina Ittoo Brij Lal Peggy Mohan Shani Mootoo and Khal Torabully. Thus rooted in critical analyses but also in subjective and creative perspectives this volume is a major intervention in understanding Indian indenture and its legacy in the diaspora and in India. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature history Indian Ocean studies migration and South Asian studies. | Kala Pani Crossings Gender and Diaspora Indian Perspectives

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The Different Faces of Politics in the Visual and Performative Arts

The Different Faces of Politics in the Visual and Performative Arts

This book highlights the linkages between politics and governance and the arts. The essays in the volume show how visual and performative arts have challenged those in power – or conversely patronised by them – been used for propaganda to stir up national fervour and found themselves at the receiving end of political censure. They focus on the tension and symbiosis between the politician and the artist foregrounding how they have always tried to influence challenge and in some cases undermine one another. This volume will serve as an indispensable source for researchers and academics in political science the humanities and performing arts. | The Different Faces of Politics in the Visual and Performative Arts

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The Different Faces of Politics in Literature and Music

The Different Faces of Politics in Literature and Music

This book highlights the links between politics and governance and the arts. The essays in the volume show how literature and music have challenged those in power risking political censure. In addition they also try to delineate how patronage has been used for propaganda or to stir up national fervour. They focus on the tension and symbiosis between the politician and the artist foregrounding how they have always tried to influence challenge and in some cases undermine one another. This volume will serve as an indispensable source for researchers and academics in political science the humanities and performing arts. | The Different Faces of Politics in Literature and Music

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Concise History of Indian Economy Perspectives on Economy and International Relations 1600s to 2020s

Concise History of Indian Economy Perspectives on Economy and International Relations 1600s to 2020s

This book presents a concise economic history of India from 1600 to the mobile economy of the twenty-first century. It examines political events social history and economic developments across the world through the years to showcase how India has navigated its economic past present and future and shaped events that for years controlled the Indian economy. This volume covers a range of important themes which include: Medieval fiscal systems and the European surge in India The impact of the British Industrial Revolution on India; English interventionism and policies; the imperialistic economy and its impact Indian economy and nationalist movement in the nineteenth and early-twentieth century; the Great Depression and its global consequences Gandhiism and ‘mass nationalism’; Independence and Partition; the impact of the World Wars; the inter-war economy; the rise of the dollar and other key global trends The Cold War and India Constitutional remedies nation-building and industrial policies; food security the Green Revolution and the power politics of 1970s Liberalization privatization and globalization in the 1990s; and The economy of war and peace India–China relations and current trends in political economy The book offers a lucid and insightful narrative of how the economy unfolded in India. It will interest readers of Indian history economic history and South Asian history and other general readers. | Concise History of Indian Economy Perspectives on Economy and International Relations 1600s to 2020s

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A History of Colonial India 1757 to 1947

A History of Colonial India 1757 to 1947

This volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on British colonial rule in India. It draws on sociology history and political science to look at key events and social process between 1757 to 1947 to provide a comprehensive understanding of the colonial history. It begins with the introductory backdrop of the British East India Company when its ship docked at Surat in 1603 and ends with the partition and independence in 1947. A compelling read the book explores a range of key themes which include: – Early colonial polity economic transformation colonial educational policies and other initial developments; – The revolt of 1857 and its aftermath; – Colonial subjectivities and ethnographic interventions colonial capitalism and its insititutions – Constitutional developments in colonial India; – Early nationalist politics the rise of Indian National Congress the role of Gandhi in nationalist politics and the Quit India movement; – Social movements and gender politics under the colonial rule; – Partition of India and independence. Accessibly written and exhaustive this volume will be essential reading for students teachers scholars and researchers of political science history sociology and literature. | A History of Colonial India 1757 to 1947

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Indian Modernities Literary Cultures from the 18th to the 20th Century

Indian Modernities Literary Cultures from the 18th to the 20th Century

This volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived practiced and performed in Indian literatures from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It brings together essays on writings in Hindi Urdu Punjabi Bengali Odia Gujarati Marathi Tamil Telugu Kannada Malayalam and languages from Northeast India which form a dialogical relationship with each other in this volume. The concurrence and contradictions emerging through these studies problematize the idea of modernity afresh. The book challenges the dominance of colonial modernity through sociohistorical and cultural analysis of how modernity surfaces as a multifaceted phenomenon when contextualized in the multilingual ethos of India. It further tracks the complex ways in which modernism in India is tied to the harvests of modernity. It argues for the need to shift focus on the specific conditions that gave shape to multiple modernities within literatures produced from India. A versatile collection the book incorporates engagements with not just long prose fiction but also lesser-known essays research works and short stories published in popular magazines. This unique work will be of interest to students and teachers of Indian writing in English Indian literatures and comparative literatures. It will be indispensable to scholars of South Asian studies literary historians linguists and scholars of cultural studies across the globe. | Indian Modernities Literary Cultures from the 18th to the 20th Century

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Televising Religion in India An Anthropological Reading

Televising Religion in India An Anthropological Reading

This book explores how religion manifests itself in television. It focuses on how religious traditions practices and discourses have been incorporated into non-religious television programmes and how they bring both the community and the media into the fold of religion. The volume traces the cultural and institutional history of television in the state of Sikkim India to investigate how it became part of the cultural life of the communities. The author analyses three televised shows that captured the community's imagination and became ceremonial and religious engagement. Through these case studies he highlights how rituals and myths function in mass media how traditional institutions and religious practices redefine themselves through their association with the visual mass medium and how identities based on religion cultural tradition and politics are reinforced transformed and amplified through television. The book further analyses the engagement of televised religion with audiences its reach relevance and contents and its relationship with urbanity tradition and identity. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of media and communication studies cultural studies religious studies sociology cultural anthropology and history. | Televising Religion in India An Anthropological Reading

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Bengal Muslims and Colonial Education 1854–1947 A Study of Curriculum Educational Institutions and Communal Politics

Bengal Muslims and Colonial Education 1854–1947 A Study of Curriculum Educational Institutions and Communal Politics

This book examines the impact of British education policies on the Muslims of Colonial Bengal. It evaluates the student composition and curriculum of various educational institutions for Muslims in Calcutta and Dacca to show how they produced the educated Muslim middle class. The author studies the role of Muslim leaders such as Abdul Latif and Fazlul Huq in the spread of education among Muslims and looks at how segregation in education supported by the British fueled Muslim anxiety and separatism. The book analyzes the conflict of interest between Hindus and Muslims over education and employment which strengthened growing Muslim solidarity and anti- Hindu feeling eventually leading to the demand for a separate nation. It also discusses the experiences of Muslim women at Sakhawat Memorial School Lady Brabourne College Eden College Calcutta and Dacca Universities at a time when several Brahmo and Hindu schools did not admit them. An important contribution to the study of colonial education in India the book highlights the role of discriminatory colonial education policies and pedagogy in amplifying religious separatism. It will be useful for scholars and researchers of modern Indian history religion education Partition studies minority studies imperialism colonialism and South Asian history. | Bengal Muslims and Colonial Education 1854–1947 A Study of Curriculum Educational Institutions and Communal Politics

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Community Engagement in Higher Education From Theory to Practice

Community Engagement in Higher Education From Theory to Practice

This book explores the finer nuances of community engagement in Indian higher education ranging from theory to practice. It contextualizes the concept and practice of community engagement in the contemporary context capturing global experiences insights and varied standpoints. The volume also identifies gaps present in the system and recommends solutions for the successful implementation and scaling up of the practice of community engagement not only in India but also at the global level. It also brings to the forefront; opinions perspectives and experiences of stellar women and their valuable scholarship with the aim of addressing the gender gap in the field of knowledge production on community engagement. The book will be of interest to scholars teachers and researchers of education higher education and sociology of education. It will also be useful for academicians think tanks higher education administration policymakers civil society organizations higher education institutions and those interested in the study of community engagement. | Community Engagement in Higher Education From Theory to Practice

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Agriculture Innovation Systems in Asia Towards Inclusive Rural Development

Agriculture Innovation Systems in Asia Towards Inclusive Rural Development

This book looks at agricultural systems and rural economies in Asia through the prism of alternative innovation systems alternative public policy and institutional changes. The massive shifts within the agricultural economy in Asia geared towards increasing production has had a direct effect on the livelihood of a large mass of people in rural societies causing financial and social distress. This book explores a wide range of solutions such as the role of education improving technical skills and human capital along with interactive learning in R&D harnessing ICTs and institutional innovations to see how these problems can be alleviated. The volume looks at how these methods can help formulate alternative ways to build sustainable and inclusive agricultural societies ensure food security sustainable growth and agricultural productivity. This book rich in theoretical and empirical matter will be useful for academics and researchers interested in agricultural innovation development studies and agricultural economics. It will also be of interest to policymakers and thinktanks working towards inclusive social development and sustainability in Asia and the Indian subcontinent. | Agriculture Innovation Systems in Asia Towards Inclusive Rural Development

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The Routledge Companion to Primary Education in India From Compulsion to Fundamental Right

The Routledge Companion to Primary Education in India From Compulsion to Fundamental Right

This companion gives a comprehensive overview of the history of primary education in India. It presents an analytical narrative of the progress of primary education as a national endeavour in colonial post-colonial and contemporary India and studies its transformative policy journey culminating in the adoption of education as a fundamental human right. The book looks behind and beyond stated policy goals and outcomes to examine the processes involved in implementing positive change and discusses the underlying socio-political factors affecting education in India. The author also shares reflections on the reform measures needed to achieve the goal of education for all in India. Rich in archival resources this companion will be essential reading for scholars and researchers of history of education education Indian history colonial history and South Asian history. It will also be useful for policymakers organizations and professionals working in the field of education. | The Routledge Companion to Primary Education in India From Compulsion to Fundamental Right

GBP 205.00
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Research Methodology for Social Sciences

Research Methodology for Social Sciences

Research Methodology for Social Sciences provides guidelines for designing and conducting evidence-based research in social sciences and interdisciplinary studies using both qualitative and quantitative data. Blending the particularity of different sub-disciplines and interdisciplinary nature of social sciences this volume: Provides insights on epistemological issues and deliberates on debates over qualitative research methods; Covers different aspects of qualitative research techniques and evidence-based research techniques including survey design choice of sample construction of indices statistical inferences and data analysis; Discusses concepts techniques and tools at different stages of research beginning with the design of field surveys to collect raw data and then analyse it using statistical and econometric methods. With illustrations examples and a reader-friendly approach this volume will serve as a key reference material for compulsory research methodology courses at doctoral levels across different disciplines such as economics sociology women’s studies education anthropology political science international relations philosophy history and business management. This volume will also be indispensable for postgraduate courses dealing with quantitative techniques and data analysis.

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Teacher Development in India Building on Grassroots Innovations and Technology

Teacher Development in India Building on Grassroots Innovations and Technology

This volume shows how grassroots educational innovations and technology can be brought together in a fresh approach to human resource development in public social services. Based on a three-decade-long engagement with innovation in public education this book provides an illustration of how teacher-driven innovations can be transformed into learning objects for technology-based professional development. It describes how innovations can be identified screened and validated and disseminated through two mechanisms—a clearinghouse-based approach and grassroots innovation “fairs. ” It then demonstrates how these innovations can form the backbone of a “third space ” problem-based-learning curriculum which can be delivered through a technology platform for large-scale professional development. The book offers guidance on practical ways of doing this and on evaluating the curriculum’s impact with case studies of programmes that covered thousands of teachers. This book will be of interest to teachers students and professionals in education teacher education digital education information technology communication and media studies. It will also be useful to educationists policymakers teacher educators educational institutions online education centres and practitioners involved in professional development education and training in developing countries. | Teacher Development in India Building on Grassroots Innovations and Technology

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Challenges to Punjab Economy A Regional Perspective from India

Challenges to Punjab Economy A Regional Perspective from India

This volume looks at the challenges faced by the economy and society in Punjab India. It probes into the economic issues institutional development and resources imbalance faced by the Punjab economy. It discusses regional research problems and futuristic approaches for a developing economy. The chapters in this volume: focus on comprehending economic challenges agrarian structure and development; markets R&D and public policy; manufacturing sector; opportunities and possibilities; examine labour caste and gender trajectories exploring the question of freedom and livelihood; human social and financial resources development; hunger diet and disease; challenges for development paradigm; present the macro and micro facets of development processes in the region and offer a way forward for long-run growth sustainability and inclusiveness amidst the dynamic fast-changing economies across the globe. Comprehensive and analytical in its approach this volume will be of interest to young researchers scholars practitioners and policymakers working in the fields of Development Economics Regional Economics Evolutionary Economics Sustainable Economics Agrarian Development Manufacturing and Labour. | Challenges to Punjab Economy A Regional Perspective from India

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