Kalpaz Publications: 225 books

The present study has been conducted among the Chenchu, one of the most primitive hunting and gathering tribes in India, dwelling in the Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, with a view : (a) to understand the critical features of the physical environment, distribution and seasonal availability of the...

The book, broadly, covers the experiences of Decentralisation in South Asia in general and India in specific. In Indian context the focus is on Institutional arrangements for Democratic Decentralisation, Constitutional mandatory provision of reservations to the lower casts, Scheduled Tribes and women,...

The Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) have come to stay in India. Time has come to take stock of the experiences gained so far in the working of the PRIs in various states. Have we really achieved the goals set up by the 73rd constitutional Amendment while implementing the programme of 'democratic...

It is a book containing well-researched articles on local good governance and grassroots development in India in general and West Bengal in particular. All the papers seek to critically analyse the available secondary material in order to identify the issues of concern and suggest remedial measures....

Public Policies, in India, are broadly of two types; policies which can alter the existing unequal socio-economic structure and policies which are of incremental nature. Policies like land reforms, if enforced effectively, belong to the first category, while Food Security Policies like Targeted Public...

This book deals with the times, life and works of Dara Shukuh as a Sufi scholar and a military man subsumed under Akhlalq working for social cohesion within Akbar's dominant state ideology. His effort at raptures produced biographies, translations of the Upani shads, quatrains, calligraphy, architecture,...

Exclusion from safe water and basic sanitation destroys more lives than any casualty. As an 'instrumental' exclusion it reinforces the deep inequalities in life chances and life styles that divide countries and people on the basis of spatial, wealth, gender, caste and other markers for deprivation....

The idea behind putting these research papers and research articles in this book is to give various aspects of communication, a platform where from readers may go through them at one go. The book deals with the research articles and papers dedicated to core areas of Journalism and Mass Communication....

This book is first of it's kind in adding the knowledge to the social work education. Especially to the community development workers and NGO's .It focused on the contributions of Non -Governmental organizations(NGO'S) towards social development .The book has covered the profile, policies and programmes...

This research study on higher education is based on three systematic samples—teachers, students and educational superiors. A thorough analysis on these basis has been done in order to enhance the role effectiveness of teachers so as to reduce the prevailing crisis in higher education.

It tries to explore new areas in sociology, that is, "Sociology of Pilgrims". This work deals with textual and contextual scenario of pilgrims and pilgrimages and well as changes which are noticed due to modernity. This work deals with textual and contextual scenario of pilgrims and pilgrimages...

This book is designed to support shop-floor executives and practicing professionals who are willing to check and strengthen their skills in designing good governance mechanisms, effective implementation schemes and in fine-tuning as may become necessary. The book would also serve as good reading material...

The book is a smart attempt to explore the potentialities and possibilities of modern museums and will prove useful to students, research scholars, social scientists, anthropologists, archaeologists and museologists, compact with theoretical and practical aspects of museology.

This book is a comprehensive study and discussion about the functioning of the Regional Public Libraries in the state of Andhra Pradesh. It has laid its major emphasis on the functioning of the Regional Public Libraries, functioning and the views of the commissioner of public libraries, renowned libraries...