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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “urmi sengupta”
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  • Housing India

    Programmes, Policies and Governance

    Edited by Urmi Sengupta, Annapurna Shaw, Debolina Kundu ...
    In this unique book on housing in India, 11 leading scholars come together to offer a critical appraisal of current housing policies and programmes in India. Contributions contextualise and conceptualise the Indian housing paradigm with an integrated perspective, covering diverse regions and themes related to housing, such as:Financial constraints to adequate housing in IndiaPolicy implementation ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Urban Land in South Asia

    Current Challenges and New Directions

    Edited by Urmi Sengupta, Kenneth Nielsen ...
    Series series Cities and the Urban Imperative
    Cities in South Asia are homes to one of the highest concentrations of people anywhere in the world and the allocation of land and urban resources and the benefits that can be derived from them in this region have become increasingly contested. This book explores the politics of urban land in South Asia and the challenges related to their respective urban futures.For most people, land comes at a ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

  • Trends and Issues in Housing in Asia

    Coming of an Age

    Edited by Urmi Sengupta, Annapurna Shaw ...
    Series series Cities and the Urban Imperative
    This book offers a comprehensive overview of current housing practices across Asian cities based on facts and trends in the market. For many countries in Asia, the future of housing is now. This future is closely linked to successful theoretical advancement and policy practice in housing studies. This volume brings together twelve chapters divided across four thematic parts that sum up the concept ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

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  • Diaspora, Development, and Democracy

    The Domestic Impact of International Migration from India

    by Devesh Kapur ...
    What happens to a country when its skilled workers emigrate? The first book to examine the complex economic, social, and political effects of emigration on India, Diaspora, Development, and Democracy provides a conceptual framework for understanding the repercussions of international migration on migrants' home countries.Devesh Kapur finds that migration has influenced India far beyond a ... Read more

    $67.09 CAD

  • The Durable Slum

    Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai

    by Liza Weinstein ...
    Series series Globalization and Community
    In the center of Mumbai, next to the city’s newest and most expensive commercial developments, lies one of Asia’s largest slums, where as many as one million squatters live in makeshift housing on one square mile of government land. This is the notorious Dharavi district, best known from the movie Slumdog Millionaire. In recent years, cities from Delhi to Rio de Janeiro have demolished similar ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Strategic Consequences of India's Economic Performance

    by Sanjaya Baru ...
    In this book, Sanjaya Baru, one of India’s most respected commentators on political and economic issues, pays close attention to the strategic consequences of India’s increasingly impressive economic performance. The new turn in India's economic policies and performance in the last decade of the twentieth century; the success of Indian enterprise in the post-WTO world; the emergence of a confident ... Read more

    $70.07 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Sri Lanka

    Edited by Kanchana N. Ruwanpura, Amjad Mohamed Saleem ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Sri Lanka offers a comprehensive survey of issues facing the island country and an overview delineating some key moments in the country’s contemporary polity, economy, and sociality.This book outlines aspects and influences foundational to understanding a country defined by its economic and political turmoil, and rift with public distrust in today’s shifting ... Read more

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  • India

    Continuity and Change in the Twenty-First Century

    by John Harriss, Craig Jeffrey, Trent Brown ...
    India has been catapulted to the centre of world attention. Its rapidly growing economy, new geo-political confidence, and global cultural influence have ensured that people across the world recognise India as one of the main sites of social dynamism in the early twenty-first century.In this book, research leaders John Harriss, Craig Jeffrey and Trent Brown explore in depth the economic, social, ... Read more

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  • City Limits

    The Crisis of Urbanization

    by Tikender Panwar ...
    Part of the acclaimed Rethinking India series, the volume deals with the issue of unplanned and unchecked urbanization in Indian cities that has worsened the quality of life and widened the socio-economic divide. Through essays by some of our leading experts in policymaking and urban development, this book addresses the major problems and offers necessary solutions—serving as a guidebook on how to ... Read more

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  • Industrialising Rural India

    Land, policy and resistance

    Edited by Patrik Oskarsson, Kenneth Nielsen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    Rapid industrialisation is promoted by many as the most feasible way of rejuvenating the Indian economy, and as a way of generating employment on a large scale. At the same time, the transfer of land from rural communities and indigenous groups for industrial parks, mining, or Special Economic Zones has emerged as perhaps the most explosive issue in India over the past decade. Industrialising ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • South Asia Migration Report 2024

    Remittances, Resilience and Rehabilitation

    Edited by S Irudaya Rajan ...
    South Asia Migration Report 2024 documents key themes of remittances, resilience, and rehabilitation from the region.This volume:Includes dedicated fieldwork to map migration within and outside South AsiaAnalyses the impact of Covid-19 on migrants and migration in South AsiaHighlights the plight of Afghan migrants post-Taliban takeover in the countryThis book will be indispensable for scholars and ... Read more

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