This text presents a treatment of community-based conservation efforts in South and Central Asia. The authors provide global and regional overviews of the need for, and issues facing, community-based conservation in India, the Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

After the restoration of democracy in 1990, Nepal witnessed collective political struggles - identity and gender movements, public protests and strikes, and the Maoist rebellion. This volume examines the causes, consequences and effectiveness of such contentious politics, and their relationship to democratization.

Examines various impediments faced in the development process and implementation of reforms in Sri Lanka, particularly after economic liberalization in 1977. This book explains why it could not match the economic achievements of South Korea and Malaysia - countries that had similar per capita income levels to that of Sri Lanka in the 1950s.

India, with its large population, poor biomedical facilities for the average person and widespread poverty, yet fast changing attitudes towards family and the aged, faces a great crisis. This is a collection of essays, which addresses different aspects of this issue.

Towards A Democratic Nepal analyses the problem of the increasing political exclusion of ethnic, caste and gender groups in democratic Nepal and discusses its consequences for democracy and the stability of the country.

Comparing the partition of the Indian sub-continent with similar processes in Israel and Palestine and East and West Germany, this book offers a concept of 'partition-societies' in order to explain the social, economic and political implications of such divisions.

Narrates the story of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) with a view to finding a solution to the conflicts hampering its functioning. This book presents a chronological description of developments within the WTO and concludes by summing up key issues, while stressing that they need to be resolved in order to ensure a stronger WTO regime.

This book, the sixth in the series of essential readings on Indian government and politics, focuses on the political parties of India. It introduces the reader to the extensive and varied landscape of political parties in India by bringing together classic articles on national and regional organizations and the politics they represent. India's Political Parties covers an exceptionally wide ...

Based on empirical evidence from first-hand interactions with 20 Indian women founders of NGOs, this book presents a theoretical understanding of the role and impact of NGOs in women's development. It looks at what motivates and facilitates female entrepreneurship in NGOs, the structures that evolve based on their feminist ideologies, and others.

Presents a collection of ten essays, which re-evaluates Eward Said's definition of orientalism. This book emphasizes the need to move beyond the prejudice and stereotype tied to the context of colonial exploitation, and offers a plea for the re-reading of Said and so reorienting orientalism.

This important and comprehensive book documents the status of Dalits (or Scheduled Castes) in contemporary India. It delineates the economic and social status of Dalits and charts the change in their status since 1947 with respect to important indicators of human development. By providing state-wise (and, where possible, district level) data, the author reveals the inter-state patterns and ...

Explores the ways in which celebrities are 'manufactured', how they establish their hold on the public imagination and how social responses enable them to be what they are. Celebrity culture is marked by three main responses: adulation, identification and emulation. These responses are generated as a result of media constructions of celebrities.

'[This book offers] interesting empirical data to support or question a number of gender and women-related assumptions...This book will provide evidence, if need be, to those protagonists of a natural determination of gender roles' - Development and Change This book deals with two processes of globalization that are profoundly influencing the lives of indigenous people - the role of their ...

Presents systematic evidence of the incidence and extent of the practice of untouchability in contemporary India. This work also describes Dalit efforts to overcome deeply entrenched caste hierarchies and to assert their right to live with dignity. It also shows that the notion of untouchability continues to pervade the public sphere.

Introducing the concept of defining human resource (HR) techniques as a technology, this book contains 50 strategic HR technologies and discusses where they can be used, and how they can add value to an organization. It covers four areas of managing people, including human technologies for profit-making; building individuals and teams; and more.

Divided into three sections, this book explores the role of communication in development, using the framework of communication designed for behavior change. It emphasizes the role of communication in advocacy, social mobilization, training, research and programme support.

Deals with the conceptual and theoretical debate on the relation between civil society and governance. This book examines the crisis of governance in India and the role that civil society can play in improving the situation.

This book examines the transformation of broadcasting in South Asia brought on by the arrival of new satellite channels during the 1990s.

Designed to help human resource managers and professionals understand, develop, manage and map competencies within their organizations, this book tackles key issues that include: understanding and developing competencies; integrating the competency framework within the HR system of an organization; and effectively managing the consequent changes.

Analyzes the power of emerging economies, focusing on Brazil, Russia, India and China in order to understand market opportunities and issues relevant to doing business in these countries. This book defines an emerging market, and examines the operative environment of such economies and identifies some common problems.