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In a conversation about youth agency, the most common discourses that come up are of acts of liberation, resistance, and deviance. However, this perspective is fairly narrow and runs the risk of reinforcing pervasive and often polarizing depictions of youth. In order to broaden the understanding of young people''s collective actions and their potential social implications, it is necessary to ask: What types of agency do young people demonstrate?This book aims to scrutinize some of the conceptual ideas that underlie prevalent visions of youth as agents of social change and as a source of hope for a better future. As a part of the Education and Society in South Asia series, it provides insightful accounts of students'' daily routines on and around a public university campus in Kathmandu, Nepal, and calls attention to a group of non-elite university students who have remained less visible in scholarly and public debates about studentactivism, youth unemployment, and international migration. By placing different strands of literature on youth, aspiration, and mobility into conversation, In Search of a Future unveils new and important perspectives on how young people navigate competing social expectations, educational inequalities,and limited job prospects.Series: ESSAthis series seeks to problematize our understanding of education, as process, in the context of the making of citizens in a ''modern'', changing South Asia. Education has been examined in its institutional avatar ad nauseam. Such efforts view educational institutions as organizations that transmit and evaluate educational knowledge and provide certification based on academic achievement. The causes of inequality, located in gender, caste, class and religion have perhaps been examined in thiscontext as these shape individuals'' lives in multiple and complex ways. At the same time, educational institutions are spaces, as processes, through which participants bring meaning and create worlds that hugely impact their personal and intellectual development. Other books in the Series include:Social, Ecological and Moral Vision for Inclusive Education: J. Krishnamurti and Educational Practice

The book tells the many stories that circulate around a nuclear power plant in Kudankulam in the southern peninsular of Tamil Nadu in India from the late 1980s. The tales are by way of fishermen and women, farmers, environmentalists, activists, writers, scholars, teachers, journalists, priests, children, as much as they are of lawyers, scientists, state officials and the author drawing upon an interdisciplinary field as the subject compels. They show how peninsularresidents contended with the prospect of one of Asia's largest nuclear enterprise being built on their doorstep.

The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru has established its position as the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. It is indispensable to the scholar, fascinating to the layperson, and at times something of a primer in politics, democracy, and world affairs.

The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru has established its position as the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. It is indispensable to the scholar, fascinating to the layperson, and at times something of a primer in politics, democracy, and world affairs.

The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru has established its position as the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. It is indispensable to the scholar, fascinating to the layperson, and at times something of a primer in politics, democracy, and world affairs.

The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru has established its position as the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. It is indispensable to the scholar, fascinating to the layperson, and at times something of a primer in politics, democracy, and world affairs.

This book is a fascinating historical account of the humans, animals and objects in the circus industry in India spanning over the last hundred and fifty years. It explores in detail a wide range of amazing tales from the evolution and blooming of circus acrobatics in the early twentieth century Malabar to the exciting legal battles following the ban of training and performance of wild animals and children from the circus ring in the twenty first century.

This comprehensive overview of Biruni is based on the Arabic and Persian primary sources in the original languages using the best editions. The author has consulted scholarship in French, German, and Russian to draw conclusions and present up-to-date bibliographic references in a manner accessible to specialists and the general reader alike. The book addresses questions in Biruni's biography, aspects of his thought in a holistic manner, and the historical context andsubsequent reception of his work.

Why has India's astonishing economic growth not reached the people at the bottom of its social and economic hierarchy? Travelling the length and breadth of the subcontinent, this book shows how India's 'untouchables' and 'tribals' fit into the global economy. 'Ground Down by Growth' reveals the impact of global capitalism on their lives. It shows how capitalism entrenches, rather than erases, social difference and has transformed traditional forms of identity-baseddiscrimination into new mechanisms of exploitation and oppression.

Across India, nature thrives in cities, the countryside, and the wild. In this book, the author, a wildlife biologist, brings alive his field experiences in cities like Chennai and Guwahati, in farms and fallows from Rajasthan to Mizoram, and in remote wildlife reserves from the Western Ghats to the Himalaya. Personal and reflective, the essays evoke diverse species, people, and places emphasizing how they are all interconnected. It reaffirms a place for humans innature and a place for nature in our lives, minds, and hearts.

A contemporary commentary on young politicians in India and their brand of politics.

Conceptualized outside the theoretical framing of both liberal as well as critical approaches, this book re-imagines the law by exploring the contradictions and polarities of in terms of its relationship with violence. It encompasses and interweaves themes and ideas as diverse as death penalty, community might, state sovereignty on the one hand, to animal rights, sexual consent, children's agency and LGBT rights, on the other.

The book tells the hitherto untold story of evolution of employment conditions in India over a period of six decades beginning in the mid-1950s. It reviews, in a sharp and concise manner, the conditions of employment existing at the start of India's journey of development, the way the conditions have changed since then and the linkages between the changes in employment conditions and economic growth. It outlines the employment challenge that India is now confrontedwith and discusses the possibilities and ways of meeting the challenge.

Principles of Macroeconomics is a lucid and concise introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of macroeconomics. This revised and updated third edition covers key macroeconomic issues such as national income, investment, inflation, balance of payments, monetary and fiscal policies, economic growth and banking system. This book also explains the role of the government in guiding the economy along the path of stable prices, low unemployment,sustainable growth, and planned development through many India-centric examples. Special attention has been given to macroeconomic management in a country linked to the global economy. This reader-friendly book presents a wide coverage of relevant themes, updated statistics, chapter-end exercises, and summarypoints modelled on the Indian context. It will serve as an indispensable introductory resource for students and teachers of macroeconomics.

No Limits maps the emergence of a mediatized world, and the role of media within contemporary indian society in 2019.

Economics is changing. In the last few years it has generated a number of new approaches. One of the most promising - complexity economics - was pioneered in the 1980s and 1990s by a small team at the Santa Fe Institute. Economist and complexity theorist W. Brian Arthur led that team, and in this book he collects many of his articles on this new approach. The traditional framework sees behavior in the economy as in an equilibrium steady state. People in the economy face well-defined problems and use perfect deductive reasoning to base their actions on. The complexity framework, by contrast, sees the economy as always in process, always changing. People try to make sense of the situations they face using whatever reasoning they have at hand, and together create outcomes they must individually react to anew. The resulting economy is not a well-ordered machine, but a complex evolving system that is imperfect, perpetually constructing itself anew, and brimming with vitality. The new vision complements and widens the standard one, and it helps answer many questions: Why does the stock market show moods and a psychology? Why do high-tech markets tend to lock in to the dominance of one or two very large players? How do economies form, and how do they continually alter in structure over time? The papers collected here were among the first to use evolutionary computation, agent-based modeling, and cognitive psychology. They cover topics as disparate as how markets form out of beliefs; how technology evolves over the long span of time; why systems and bureaucracies get more complicated as they evolve; and how financial crises can be foreseen and prevented in the future.

The book offers a comprehensive portrait of refugee-life in modern nation-state illuminating their pains, sufferings, and struggle with the case of Rohingya people. The book with ethnographically informed analysis proposes a new framework called "subhuman" life for understanding the extreme vulnerability as well as genocide, ethnocide, ethnic cleansing, and domicide. The book contributes both a theoretical potential and an ethnography of Rohingya to the spectrum ofstateless people, asylum seekers, transborder movements, camp people and non-citizens.

The work explains how the Naga population perceived their meeting point with the institutions of the Indian state in the midst of a conflict zone, especially the army, the paramilitary forces, and documents what it feels like to live in a conflict zone and the constrains that it cultivates in people, especially the young.

Moot to the book's architecture are the following questions: Are India's global policies in each of these fields shaped by institutions, driven by interests, or influenced by ideational factors? And to what extent are these factors primarily domestic, or do constraints, pressures, and expectations from the regional and global level of politics play a role as well? Looking at Prime Ministerial years of Manmohan Singh and Narendra Modi, the book examines India'sapproach to global governance and consequent policy-making in line with its own image and the world's image of India as a rising and global power.

What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)? How did it evolve over the years and what is it going to look like in the future? What are the opportunities and risks associated with AI? Where does India stand among the global AI ecosystems?This book answers these questions and gives a bird's eye view of the field of AI, with a special focus on India. In clear, jargon-free language it explains what is and, more importantly, what is not AI. It provides a well-rounded summary of the on-going debates on ethics, regulation, bias, and data privacy surrounding the development and use of AI technology.

Enacted for historical reasons on 26 January 1950, the Constitution of India provided that the Supreme Court of India, situated in New Delhi, was to have one Chief Justice of India, and not more than seven judges. Today, the Court has 33 judges in addition to the Chief Justice of India. But who are these judges, and where did they come from? Its central thesis is that despite all established formal constitutional requirements, there are three informal criteria whichare used for appointing judges to the Supreme Court: age, seniority, and diversity. This book uniquely brings to the fore the unwritten criteria that have determined the selection of judges to the highest court of law in this country for over six decades.

This book investigates how people construct meaning and motivation for political action. Building on Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph's seminal scholarship of India, it develops the concept of situated knowledge to argue that people's capacity to empathize and dehumanize as well as their engagement in ongoing discourses and ideational power shape their political action. The volume illuminates contemporary Indian politics by showing how political leadership can transformpeople's understandings and cause dramatic political transformation.

India's disproportionately skewed health budget emphasises the need to take a closer look at health statistics: we have the highest number of women dying at childbirth and under-five mortality rates. Drawing on her considerable experience as health secretary, Sujatha Rao gives us an insider perspective of India's health system.

This is a volume containing information brought out on the basis of fresh enquiries into the developments in different areas of indigenous healing and healthcare. Further it is intended to provide useful knowledge in some allied subjects such as Botanical science, treatment for horses, elephants etc. Special attention is given for placing the develop-ments in various topics regarding the subject against their historical background.

Remote Sensing is designed to meet the requirements of undergraduate courses in civil engineering, geoinformatics/geomatics engineering, geotechnical engineering, survey engineering, and environmental engineering. It provides a thorough understanding of remote sensing and GIS technology.

Data Structures using Python provides an introduction to design, analysis, and implementation of data structures using the powerful programming language, Python. This book is designed for a first course on the subject. It is written for the undergraduate engineering students of Computer Science, Information Technology, and allied disciplines.

A hilarious account of a group of bachelors getting married in due course, the play Chirakumar Sabha (The Bachelors' Club), originally written by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), is neatly aimed at matrimony and against celibacy.

In mankind's relentless quest for prosperity, Nature has suffered great damage. The indefinite scale of global expansion has put the earth's very survival under threat. But against this exploitation of nature, there is a concept of Entropy that places a finite limit on the extent to which resources can be used in any closed system, such as our planet. Considering the impact of entropy, this book examines the key issues of sustainability-social, economic, andenvironmental. It discusses the social dimension of sustainability, showing how it is impacted by issues of economic inequality, poverty, and other socio-economic and infrastructural factors in the Indian context and concludes with projecting power sector scenarios till 2041-42 through alternative,realizable policy with respect to energy conservation and fuel substitution, and thus paving the way for green power.

The Human Rights Act (HRA) of the UK, 1998, unlike systems of parliamentary sovereignty and judicial supremacy, promised a new, ''balanced'' model for the protection of rights, which conferred courts with limited power of review over legislation. This book examines the promise of the new model against its performance in practice by comparing judicial review under the HRA to an exemplar of the old model of judicial review, the Indian Constitution. Balancedconstitutionalism is not achieved through the legislative rejection of judicial decision-making about rights. Instead, the nature of the remedy under the HRA enables British courts to assert their genuine interpretations of rights in situations in which Indian courts find it difficult to do so.