Population explosions have always pushed India into many deep-rooted socio-economic bottlenecks. India is home to one third of the globe's poverty-ridden and hunger-prone population, despite the undoubted availability of and access to food grains. This study explores the causes of and solutions...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- 1. Researching the Obvious: Tourism and the Eastern Cherokee -- 2. The Trail of Tourism -- 3. Academic Perspectives on Tourism and the Case of Cherokee, North Carolina -- 4. Eastern Cherokee Ingenuity -- 5. Disneyfication on the Boundary -- 6. Mass...

Celebratory news features about India's thriving middle class tell only part of the story of the country's recent economic rise, frequently glossing over the 300 million Indians who live on the margins and struggle to survive under economic liberalization. How do those cast out of their...

Local organizations have become key mechanisms in effective, fair, and sustainable resource management and development in India. This book adds empirical evidence to the debate on whether or not these functions are performed as expected. Based on research in three sectors in three states in...

By expanding the existing set of indicators to include gender-related stress, anxiety, and violence, this book introduces a new framework for gender research. The viability of this new approach is demonstrated through a coordinated set of household surveys, carried out in Export Processing Zones...

This text is concerned with the concept of time in the Bible and in later literature, primarily that of the Judaean Desert sect. The work discusses issues of terminology, substance and ideology that arise from the totality of texts dealing with the subject of time.

Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Indian words and place names -- Note on money -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Weavers and merchants 1720-1760 -- The Weavers -- The weaver household -- The rhythms of...

Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Maps -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Introduction -- 1 South Asian merchant networks -- South Asian merchants in the world economy -- Trade diasporas and middleman minorities: a critique of two...

The Paradox of EU-India Relations: Missed Opportunities in Politics, Economics, Development Cooperation, and Culture, by Shazia Aziz WYlbers, successfully identifies problems and prospects in the relationship between two great entities. It is a comprehensive empirical study which, after...