This essay summarises the broad contours and key characteristics of the Indian government’s social policy response to the global Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing nationwide lockdown. The principal strategy of the Indian government was to implement a large and at times bewildering array of...

This paper aims to examine the role of corporate governance (CG) on earnings management (EM) in Indian commercial banks. In addition, the study examines the role of board gender diversity within the CG framework using data from 22 publicly traded commercial banks in India from 2010 to 2019. The...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Place Names and Measures -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 Research Questions -- 2 The Geography -- 3 The Period -- 4 Book Structure -- Chapter 1 Transport Systems and the Southwest -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Transport Technologies -- 3 Transport...