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Windows of Opportunity
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SAMEEKSHA TRUST BOOKS By K S KRISHNASWAMY A ruminative memoir by one who saw much happen, and not happen, at a time when everything seemed possible and promising in India.K S Krishnaswamy was a leading light in the Reserve Bank of India and the Planning Commission between the 1950s and 1970s. He offers a ringside view of the pulls and pressures within the administration and outside it, the hopes that sustained a majority in the bureaucracy and the lasting ties he formed with the many he came in contact with. Even more relevant is what he has to say about political agendas eroding the Reserve Bank’s autonomy and degrading the numerous democratic institutions since the late 1960s. Pp xii + 190 ISBN 978-81-250-3964-8 2010 Rs 440 Available from Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd
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Mumbai Chennai New Delhi Kolkata Bangalore Bhubaneshwar Ernakulam
Guwahati Jaipur Lucknow Patna Chandigarh Hyderabad
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China after 1978: Craters on the Moon
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SAMEEKSHA TRUST BOOKS The breathtakingly rapid economic growth in China since 1978 has attracted world-wide attention. But the condition of more than 350 million workers is abysmal, especially that of the migrants among them. Why do the migrants put up with so much hardship in the urban factories? Has post-reform China forsaken the earlier goal of “socialist equality”? What has been the contribution of rural industries to regional development, alleviation of poverty and spatial inequality, and in relieving he grim employment situation? How has the meltdown in the global economy in the second half of 2008 affected the domestic economy? What of the current leadership’s call for a “harmonious society”? Does it signal an important “course correction”?A collection of essays from the Economic & Political Weekly seeks to find tentative answers to these questions, and more. Pp viii + 318 ISBN 978-81-250-3953-2 2010
Rs 350 Available from Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd
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Mumbai Chennai New Delhi Kolkata Bangalore Bhubaneshwar Ernakulam
Guwahati Jaipur Lucknow Patna Chandigarh Hyderabad
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SAMEEKSHA TRUST BOOKS - New Release
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1857 Essays from Economic and Political Weekly A compilation of essays that were first published in the EPW in a special issue in May 2007. Held together with an introduction by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, the essays – that range in theme and subject from historiography and military engagements, to the dalit viranganas idealised in traditional songs and the “unconventional protagonists” in mutiny novels – converge on one common goal: to enrich the existing national debates on the 1857 Uprising. The volume has 18 essays by well known historians who include Biswamoy Pati, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Peter Robb and Michael Fisher. The articles are grouped under five sections: ‘Then and Now’, ‘Sepoys and Soldiers’, ‘The Margins’, ‘Fictional Representations’ and ‘The Arts and 1857’.
Pp viii + 364 2008 Rs 295
Available from Orient Longman Ltd Mumbai Chennai New Delhi Kolkata Bangalore Bhubaneshwar Ernakulam Guwahati Jaipur Lucknow Patna Chandigarh Hyderabad Contact:info@orientlongman.com |
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Ideals, Images, and Real Lives
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IDEALS,
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LIVES Women in Literature and History |
Women studies as a distinct field emerged in India in the mid-l970s. But preoccupation with the position of women dates back more than a century and a half. What is striking in the case of India is the way the women question became central to rising national consciousness. This volume brings together studies of how the women question was formulated at different times, the impact of conflicting pressures on women, their own reactions and the role they played. Thesepapers exemplify both the advances in feminist theory, especiallywith regard to notions of and interconnections between gender, male power and ideology and the course of women’s movement in the third world. The real lives and mythic models depicted here intersect at various points - they are not two separate histories. SectionI deals with real lives. Section II presents the formation of a nationalist iconography in fiction where nationalism is conjoined with the notion of womanhood and the ways in which feminists have tried to grapple with them. | |
Edited by Alice Thorner and Maithreyi Krishnaraj
A Sameeksha Trust Publication, 2000;
pp345 + xiv ,Rs 345
Orient Longman; Hyderabad, NewDelhi, Mumbai, Calcutta | Contributors: Srabashi Ghosh
Sonal Shukla Geetanjali Pandey
S Anandhi Kathryn Hansen Sujata Patel Patricia Uberoi Geraldine H Forbes
Meera Kosambi
Catherine Clementin-Ojha
Tanika Sarkar Jasodhara Bagchi |
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Money and Finance: Issues Institutions Policies
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MONEY AND FINANCE ISSUES
INSTITUTIONS
POLICIES
| During the infancy of development economics, money and finance were given a peripheral role. As the corpus of knowledge about development policy and problems grew, the image of money and finance changed, both in theroy and practice. One of the functions of money as a conduit of resources from savers to investors came to be regarded as central to the development process. This led to the perception that government intervention was necessary to control the multifaceted development policy agenda. In 1970,s, this led to an economic denouncement of the agenda in many developing countries. The consequence of this was financial reform and Liberalisation. The policy of financial reform and liberalisation has itself raised many problems, both in conception and implementation. Financial reform is not an event, but a process and need not follow the same pattern everywhere. Variation in mode and content are necessary. A regulatory framework is as essential as the process itself. The many issues and problems that have cropped up in the process of financial liberalisation should help to impart some balance to this controversial subject. How should all this be perceive in the Indian context? Readers will get some flavour in this volume, which gathers together articles published over time in the Economic and Political
Weekly, on money and monetary policy in general and on India's monetary and financial problems and policies in particular, The first Part of the volume is devoted to the general theoretical and empirical
issues of money, finance and monetary policy. The second part is solely concerned with the Indian monetary and financial policy and problems. The discussion therein is sufficiently broad to cover views on all sides of the subject. | Edited By Deena Khatkhate A Sameeksha Trust Publication, 1998;
Orient Longman; Hyderabad, NewDelhi, Mumbai, Calcutta | | Contributors: Shankar Acharya
Suman K Berry
L M Bhole
Anand Chandrabharkar
V M Dandekar
Narendra Jadhav
Deena Khatkhate
Srinivasa Madhur
D M Nachane
V G Pendharkar
Mihir Rakshit
S L Shetty
Balwant Singh
Pradeep Srivastava
Yoon Je Cho |
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Industrial Growth and Stagnation
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INDUSTRIAL GROWTH AND STAGNATION THE DEBATE IN INDIA | This volume seeks to present the main strands in the debate of industrialisation in India. The essays included here analyse the factors underlying the deceleration in industrial growth from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s and discuss the condition and poilicies for a return to the path of sustained growth. The alternative hypotheses about the macroeconomic determinants of, and constraints on, industrial growth in India focus on the performance of the agriculture sector, intersectoral terms of trade between agriculture and industry, disproportionalities within and between sectors, the level of investment, and the relative significance of supply and demand constraints. While the issues raised in the debate continue to be important in India, they are of relevance also for studies of other late-industrialisers, particularly the larger countries of Asia and Latin America. The volume will be found valuable by the specialist researcher as much as interested reader unfamiliar with the existence literature.
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DEEPAK NAYYAR
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SAMEKSHA TRUST OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
MUMBAI DELHI KOLKATA MADRAS | Contributors: Amiya Kumar Bagchi
Sukhamoy Chakraborty
C P Chandrasekhar
Ashok V Desai
N S S Narayana
Deepak Nayyar
Prabhat Patnaik
K N Raj
C Rangarajan
Ranjit Sau
S L Shetty
T N Srinivasan
A Vaidyanathan |
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