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 --...

This book examines the intertwined currents shaping the new economic map of India: globalization and sustainability. Introduces new methodologies, concepts and modes of analysis which challenge well-known assumptions and help make sense of the emerging order.

Key Features:Detailed analysis of key issues such as trade, services, international trade, energy and pollutionComparative study of economic growth, disparity and convergence of the Chinese and Indian economies.

A great burst of globalization brought the 20th century to a close, creating upheaval in the world economy from roughly 1995 to 2008. And now a second upheaveal is in the offing following the severe financial crisis that plunged the global economy into recession in 2008-09. The first upheaval...

Throughout the 20th century, electricity was considered to be the primary vehicle of modernity, as well as its quintessential symbol. In India, electrification was central to how early nationalists and planners conceptualized Indian development, and huge sums were spent on the project from then...