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Financial Management is a comprehensive textbook for management students with a managerial decision-making orientation and application of concepts through case studies. The textbook deals with the concepts of core finance with emphasis on specialized sub-areas.

This monograph discusses issues of sustainability, ecology, and environment in the Himalayas, particularly among the Tamang people of Nepal. It provides a comparative framework for analysing human-environment relations. The author addresses new approaches to environmental protection, examining the case of Langtang National Park.

This reader brings together essays on various aspects of ancient Indian history. It discusses historiography; society and economy; changing political formations; religion, philosophy and society; and the changes which paved way for new socio-economic and political formations.

This book analyses the many facets-psychological, epistemological, metaphysical-of the repeated philosophical adventures over centuries to explore and explain the indubitability of I-consciousness. While the major focus is on the Upanisadic and the Buddhist traditions, this volume also examines Western philosophical traditions in a cross-cultural philosophical context.

The first novel by the first tribal novelist of south India, Kocharethi maps the story of the Malayarayar tribe in Kerala. Melding history with culture, the work portrays their many struggles: from possession and dispossession of land to the challenges of preserving myths, rituals, social customs, and belief systems.

This volume provides a comprehensive review of the evolution of banking and finance in India. Analyzing monetary and financial aspects of India's reform, the essays cover a wide range of topical issues-management of the financial sector, the role of central banking, and the impact of the global financial crisis on the Indian economy.

This book upholds the idea of learning and education as a means to individual development and social empowerment. Presenting a holistic picture, it looks at learning as an integral part of one's social and physical life.

This volume examines the social and political processes that underlined India's economic transition from Independence till 1991 and onwards. It examines key debates surrounding economic reforms and discusses salient features of the post-reforms political economy.

Part of 'The Oxford Tagore Translations' series, a prestigious project undertaken by Oxford University Press in collaboration with Visva-Bharati, this volume brings together nearly 150 poems composed by Tagore, many of which have been translated into English for the first time.

This book discusses the different forms of resistance to colonialism and their role in the formation of alternative modernity in India.

This book narrates how Ayodhya's inhabitants experienced the events that led up to and followed the destruction of the Babri Masjid, the end-product of a century's effort to convert Hindus into a 'proper' modern nation. Woven into the narrative is an analysis of the culture of communal conflict, the nature of organized mass violence, and the political psychology of Hindu nationalism.

Part of the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru series, this volume includes lectures, writings, letters, speeches, and other literary works of Nehru, covering three months of his Prime Ministership, from 1 January to 31 March 1958.

This handbook suggests alternatives for globalization and development. The concerns addressed are related to trade regimes, currency convertibility, monetary policy, financial fragility, labour and employment, issues in cross-national growth comparisons, and specific lessons from China.

One of the most comprehensive works in the vast area of human development in the North-Eastern region of India, this volume brings new thinking on the approach to poverty, measurement of poverty, relationship between economic growth and human development, socio-political transition, politics of growth and growth trends, and development attainment. The status of HD across and within the eight North-Eastern states (the study also includes Orissa), have been provided with large empirical data. Academicians from within and outside the region contributing to this volume broadly divide the literature into three sections: (i) concept and measurement of growth and human development; (ii) the issue at the national level; and (iii) the issue in the North-East region. Meaningful for formulating development policies that will have larger implications for the country as a whole, the volume is enriched with HD indices of each major state, and comparative HD analysis at all-India level.

This book describes the lived experience of Kashmiris who came of age between 2007 and 2017. It shows that Kashmiris generally had high hopes for peace and stability when the militancy that began in 1988 ended around 2006. It explores the reasons why there was so much angst and rage, which exploded in agitations and stone-pelting in 2008, 2010, and 2016 and why a new militancy is on the rise. It traces the decilne of hope among the Kashmirirs as the situationworsened from a perceived threat to their identity in 2008 to rage over the killing of innocents in 2010. The anger has finally resulted in support for militancy in 2016.

Project Management and Appraisal is a comprehensive textbook designed to meet the requirements of the post graduate management students specializing in Finance and/or in Operations areas.

This volume explores different aspects of religion in the context of identity formation and articulation of power. It deals with critical issues like literature, religious practitioners, internal differentiation in the various religious traditions (with emphasis on rebel traditions), caste, class customs, interpretations.

Including short stories, essays, poems, and excerpts from novels and plays, this anthology addresses issues ranging from the Maoist insurgency in Nepal and the Tamil militancy in Sri Lanka to the Indian manifestations ranging from the militant wing of the Independence movement to the various post-Independence terrorist movements, such as separatism in Kashmir, the insurgency in Assam, and the Naxalite movement in Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, and MadhyaPradesh.

In the light of the drive to universalize elementary education in India, this book explores meaningful and equitable access to basic education. By identifying vulnerable learners and outlining policy and legislation, it explains the patterns of access and exclusion and provides areas for further research.

Hotel Facility Planning is a comprehensive textbook designed especially for the degree/diploma students of hotel management. The book covers the basics of facility planning. The concepts are very well explained with the help of tables, diagrams and illustrations.

This book is an edited and annotated translation of Tarikh-i-Yusufi by Yusuf Khan Kammal Posh (c. 1830-90) who travelled to several places in north Africa and Europe. Translated for the first time from Urdu to English, it describes in detail the socio-economic conditions of Europe and contrasts it with the conditions in areas under European control. By highlighting this duality of approach with respect to the colonies, this translation reverses the gazeand exposes the reader to a non-European perception of the Imperial world.

Part of the Monumental Legacy series, this book examines the most striking characteristics of Ajanta art, architecture, sculpture, and painting. It also gives us graphic insights into the history of Buddhism in India and the inter-relationship between various Buddhist centres across Asia.

Design of Steel Structures: Theory and Practice is designed to meet the requirements of undergraduate students of civil and structural engineering. This book will also be useful for postgraduate students and serve as an invaluable reference for practicing engineers unfamiliar with the limit state design of steel structures. _

The Country of First Boys is Amartya Sen's intellectual journey through the past and present to seek an understanding of India's history and the demands of its future. In this collection, Sen examines justice, identity, deprivation, inequalities, gender politics, education, the media, and the importance of getting your priorities right.

On the basis of his new fieldwork done in south Gujarat between 2004 and 2006, Jan Breman critically analyses the historical roots of the ongoing subordination of the rural poor in what has come to be recognised as a booming economy.

Reconstructs the history of the Nepali community in Bhutan, from the first settlers migration to its southern belt in the late 19th century up to the exodus of many of their descendants to Nepal in the late 20th century. This book analyses the policies on citizenship, language, and dress which were adopted by the Bhutanese government in the 1980s.

This book analyses the complexity of local governance, both rural and urban, in contemporary India. It argues that there is more to local governance today than a focus on decentralization. It looks at some of the lesser-known aspects of the interface between panchayats and other institutes of local governance.

Discrete Mathematics is designed to serve as a textbook for undergraduate engineering students of computer science and postgraduate students of computer applications. The book would also prove useful to post graduate students of mathematics. It seeks to provide a thorough understanding of the subject and present its practical applications tol computer science.

This edition, including a new preface by the author, explores the ways in which colonialism damaged the colonizing societies themselves, and how the likes of Gandhi resisted their rulers in British India by building on the lifestyle, values, and psychology of ordinary Indians and by heeding dissenting voices from the West.

This volume focuses on Akbar, his empire and environment, to present a picture of the polity and culture of India 400-500 years ago.