Gyan Publishing House: 206 books
by G. Pankajam
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2005
During the past few years many changes are taking place in education system in India at all levels. People started demanding quality education Now, Education is to be need based and demand driven especially at the tertiary level of the higher education. The author being an educationist for about four...
Women's Equality
A Struggle for Survival
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2005
This work is a comprehensive account of the condition of women in every walk of life. In order to study the condition of women in China a high-powered Indian delegation visited that country. It is emphasized in the Book that the development activities should be managed by value and vision only. The...
Water Management in India
What Works, What Doesn't
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
The book deals with some of the most debated, yet unresolved questions regarding water management options for India and several other developing economies. It argues that there are serious knowledge gaps about “what solutions work and under what conditions”. It challenges the “received wisdom”...
by Nihar Ranjan Mishra, Kamal K. Misra
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
The world has witnessed a lot of controversy over development —induced displacement, and it has given rise to issues concerning social justice and equity. Displacement is essential to development in a globalized world; however, we remain accountable as a nation or as citizens of the world for the...
Reconstructing South Asia
An Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2007
A collection of articles by the scholars across the South Asian region, attempts to suggest ways and means to overcome the problems of varied colours-major bottlenecks in achieving a particular identity in affirmation-to reconstruct South Asia region. The need of a South Asian Union and a single currency...
A New Paradigm of Development
Sumangalam
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Humanity has paid a high price for the development model it adopted since the Industrial Revolution. Based on Western notions of linear progress, exploitation of resources, consumerism and equating material prosperity with happiness, it has caused global warming, environmental pollution, decimation...
India China Relations
Changing Profile in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
The epithets, such as 'civilizational states', 'natural allies', 'twin engines/key drivers' of Asian economic growth and the 'Asian giants' relating to India and China are very much in vogue in the international parlance. India-China relationship, in an upbeat mood, was variously envisioned as 'mutually...
by R. Subbaiah, G. V. Prajapati
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Climate change has emerged as a major challenge to our agriculture, indeed to the management of our economy as a whole. The immediate problems that our farmers face relate to intra-seasonal variability of rainfall, extreme events and unseasonal rains. These aberrations cause heavy losses to our crops...
Evolution of Indian Education
From Colonial Stranglehold to Resurgent India (A Critical Study, in an Historical Perspective, of The Development of Indian Education During the Period 1813 to 2013)
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
We have discussed in details the progress of Indian education during the Colonial rule, as also in independent India; the policy paradigms, the system of finance, its magnitude, inter-sectoral priorities etc. in separate chapters.It has been observed that during the first sixty years of the Colonial...
Sanitation in India
A Historico-Sociological Survey
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Sanitation is now increasingly recognized as one of the most ‘publicly relevant issues' in our country. The book deals with why it is appropriate, rather, necessary for this issue to be duly considered as a field of historiosociological studies in the Indian academia. Further, the details of the...
Public Policy and Administration
Formulation, Implementation and Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Public Policy has emerged as an important discipline in social sciences, since the early 1970s. This discipline deals basically with the analysis of complex societal problems. To this extent Public Policy provides perspective on analysis implementation and evaluation of a problem.This volume is a...
Police Administration Under The British Rule
In the Northern Range of the Madras Presidency 1924-47
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
The Northern range was one of the police divisions of the erstwhile Madras Presidency of the British India. This range included the Northern most part of the present Andhra Pradesh state and the Southern part of Orissa state, which included the districts of Ganjam, Jeypore, Vizagapatam, Godavari,...
by Sarthak Sengupta
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
The rainbow land of seven sister states of north eastern region of India is the homeland of large number of tribes, who lives in diverse habitat; speaks a variety of languages; have different socio-cultural heritage; and show distinction in physical features. There exists an information gap on the...
by Manu N Kulkarni
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2007
This book captures the thoughts of the Author who worked for more than four decades at the grassroots in India and other countries, observing and watching how Human Development Programmes touch the lives of those who receive the services like primary health care, water and sanitation, school education...