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  • Education and Empowerment in India

    Policies and practices

    Edited by Avinash Kumar Singh ...
    This book explores the critical linkages between education and empowerment of women, marginalized groups and other disadvantaged sections of society. It:Provides an overview of educational policies and practices from India’s independence to the present day, and tracks relevant changes and amendments.Examines a range of issues connected with education such as the Right to Education Act; empowerment ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

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  • Engaging with Empowerment

    An Intellectual and Experiential Journey

    by Srilatha Batliwala ...
    In this fascinating collection of writings, Srilatha Batliwala, feminist thinker and practitioner, explores the many dimensions of what empowerment means for, and to, women. Looking back on a life lived through commitment to a cause—rather than to an organisation or to a sector—and working for it at many levels and locations, she traces the evolution of the concept from the late 1980s till now, ... Read more

    $5.35 CAD

  • Higher Education in India

    In Search of Equality, Quality and Quantity

    Edited by Jandhyala B. G. Tilak ...
    India has a large network of around 634 universities and 33,000 colleges with 817,000 teachers spread across the length and breadth of the country.Despite its massive geographical reach, higher education in India has had its share of problems.This volume is a collection of essays which discusses these problems like inclusiveness and the impact of reservation on education, the problems of ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • The Elementary Education System in India

    Exploring Institutional Structures, Processes and Dynamics

    Edited by Rashmi Sharma, Vimala Ramachandran ...
    This book focuses on the failure of elementary education since Independence, which is usually seen as the result of simplified phrases like 'lack of political will', 'because of poverty', etc. This book looks at the system as a whole: infrastructure, quality of teaching, privatisation, nutritional incentives, curriculum. It contains samples from two states namely Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh. ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Everyday Resistance

    Female Headed Households in Northern Sri Lanka

    by Raksha Vasudevan ...
    Series series eCahiers de l’Institut
    Northern Sri Lanka has been at the heart of the country’s 30-year civil war, a bloody conflict which has given rise to an estimated 40,000 households headed by women in this region. Based on fieldwork conducted in 10 villages and towns, this ePaper aims to identify and describe the most pervasive economic, physical and psycho-social vulnerabilities that female heads of households (FHHs) in the ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Modern Migrations

    Gujarati Indian Networks in New York and London

    by Maritsa Poros ...
    Although globalization seems like a recent phenomenon linked to migration, some groups have used social networks to migrate great distances for centuries. To gain new insights into migration today, Modern Migrations takes a closer look at the historical presence of globalization and how it has organized migration and social networks. With a focus on the lives of Gujarati Indians in New York and ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Education and Inequality in India

    A Classroom View

    by Manabi Majumdar, Jos Mooij ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Universalization of primary education has been high on the policy agenda in India. This book looks at the reproduction of social inequalities within the educational system in India, and how this is contested in different ways. It examines whether the concept of `education for all’ is just a mechanically conceived policy target to chasing enrolment and attendance or whether it is a larger social ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Globalisation and the Middle Classes in India

    The Social and Cultural Impact of Neoliberal Reforms

    by Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, Timothy J. Scrase ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    This book fills an important gap in the existing literature on economic liberalization and globalisation in India by providing much needed ethnographic data from those affected by neoliberal globalisation. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, it reveals the complexity of the globalisation process and describes and accounts for the contradictory attitudes of the lower middle classes. The ... Read more

    $75.57 CAD

  • The Grammar of Caste

    Economic Discrimination in Contemporary India

    by Ashwini Deshpande ...
    Is the caste system disappearing? Are traditional hierarchies being replaced by competing equalities? Do globalization and liberalization automatically result in diminishing disparities? Are modern labour markets intrinsically meritocratic and efficient? Challenging the dominant discourse and demolishing various myths, this book provides answers to these and other critical questions on caste in ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Inside Indian Schools

    The Enigma of Equity and Quality

    by Vimala Ramachandran ...
    After 70 years after independence, the tragic reality of Indian schools is that who we are, where we live, how much we earn and our gender influences the kind of education we will get. In this collection of essays the author explores the contours of a school system that is facing a crisis of legitimacy. While India aspires to march towards a knowledge driven society and economy, millions of young ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Corporate Social Responsibility in India

    by Bidyut Chakrabarty ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Presenting an analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in India, this book looks at the unique roots of the concept in India. It examines Gandhi’s philosophical moorings that inform India’s approach to CSR, and the role of civil society in setting an agenda for championing the rights of the stakeholders. The book goes on to focus on the role of the government in grooming the Indian ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Persistence of Poverty in India

    Edited by Nandini Gooptu, Jonathan Parry ...
    What distinguishes Persistence of Poverty from most other poverty studies is the way in which it conceptualises the problem. This volume offers a variety of alternative analytical perspectives and fresh insights into poverty that are key to addressing the problem. In looking at the day to day lived realities of the poor the volume points out that in order to understand poverty one must take into ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD