We are in the knowledge economy and research has a key role in increasing the knowledge base and has gained increased significance. India is one of the fastest growing economies and the role and significance of India in the global economy is continuously increasing. Business research has an...

Eddy Kent examines novels, short stories, poems, essays, memoirs, private correspondence, and parliamentary speeches related to the East India Company and the Indian Civil Service to explain the origins of the imperial ethos of "virtuous service

China is now the world's fourth largest economy and growing very fast. India's economic salience is also on the rise. Together these two countries will profoundly influence the pace and nature of global economic change. Drawing upon the latest research, this volume analyzes the influences on the...

Cover -- Understanding the Indian Economy from the Post-Reforms of 1991, Volume III -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1: Agriculture and Its Importance in the Indian Economy -- CHAPTER 2: Climate and Pattern of Land Utilization in India -- CHAPTER 3: Cropping Pattern and...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- PART I Introduction -- 1 Business organisations -- Meaning of business organisation -- Types of business organisations -- Types of private sector...

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Thinking with roads -- Penny Harvey -- 1. Why highways remake hierarchies -- Luke Heslop and Galen Murton -- 2. Stuck on the side of the road -- Mobility, marginality, and neoliberal governmentality in Nepal -- Galen Murton and Tulasi...

This handbook provides an indispensable reference guide to most aspects of the history of India's railways. The secondary literature is surveyed, primary sources identified, statistical and cartographic data discussed, and a massive bibliography made available.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures and Map -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Poverty, Ethnicity and Exclusion -- Ethnicity, religion and caste -- Ethnicity, caste and poverty -- Ethnicity and social exclusion -- Concluding remarks -- 2 Minorities in China and India --...