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1 online resource (180 pages) : illustrations |
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Quarrelling with Indian Perceptions. Quarrelling with Indian Perceptions -- Dear Departed Ones -- Dreaming Bengal -- Reforming Babu's World View -- The National Library: A Reader's Rendition -- An Anatomy of 'Work Culture' -- Sketching Tagore as a Social Activist -- India's Family Planning Programme: A Muddle Extraordinary -- In Resurrection of Gunnar Myrdal's Asian Drama -- Market, Media, and Development. On the Invasion of Neoliberalism into Development Thinking -- What Education? -- What is Meant by 'Changing Times' After All? -- Commodities, Comforts, and Chaos -- Market, Media, and Mediocrity -- Migration, Mediocrity, and Misery -- In the Name of 'Accident'? India's Road Traffic Deaths and Injuries -- The Demography of North-East India: Perilous Pluralism? -- Society, Culture, and Dilemmas. 'Who is Civilised?' On the Tribal Traditions, Society, and Culture -- India's Social Stratification: Demography and Dilemmas -- Aping the 'Awful'? Recent Trends in India's North-South Sociocultural Divide -- Understanding Modern Hindu Mind Resurrecting Ashok Rudra's Reading |
| Summary |
There has been, of late, a growing realisation that the pace and pattern of economic development of a country can hardly be understood and explained comprehensively in terms of the straitjacket of economics discipline alone. India is a prime example of the importance of the part played by a country's history, culture, sociology, and socio-cultural-religious norms, values, and institutions in its development process. This book, with its assorted essays of varying depths of scholarship and insightful reflections, attempts to drive home this point more forcefully than ever before. In its search for the non-economic roots of India's overall sloth and murky progress in its broad-based economic and human development, the book illuminates major oddities deep inside a unique mental make-up full of perceptual and ideational dilemmas, many of which are arguably shaped by the long-lasting and dominant influence of what could be called the Brahminical lines of thinking and discourse. With India's hazy and dodgy world of perceptions as a backdrop, the book also addresses - through its intelligent essays - the deep and sometimes dire ramifications of the historic advent and the dramatic advance of neoliberal market ideology today |
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cultureel onderzoek |
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cultural research |
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sociaal beleid |
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social policy |
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economie |
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economics |
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bedrijfswetenschap |
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management science |
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religie |
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religion |
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filosofie |
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philosophy |
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populaties |
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populations |
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demografie |
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demography |
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Management studies, Business Administration, Organizational Science (General) |
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Economics (General) |
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Management, bedrijfskunde, organisatiekunde (algemeen) |
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Economie (algemeen) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
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Science économique.
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Affaires.
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Civilization
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Social conditions -- 1947- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064952
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India -- Civilization -- 1947-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064876
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| Subject |
India
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India.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9788132210177 |
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8132210174 |
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