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Toward a Free Economy

Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India

By: Aditya Balasubramanian

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Toward a Free Economy

Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India

By: Aditya Balasubramanian

The unknown history of economic conservatism in India after independence Neoliberalism is routinely characterized as an antidemocratic, expert-driven project aimed at insulating markets from politics, devised in the North Atlantic and projected on the rest of the world. Revising this understanding, Toward a Free Economy shows how economic conservatism emerged and was disseminated in a postcolonial society consistent with the logic of democracy. Twelve years after the British left India, a Swatantra (“Freedom”) Party came to life. It encouraged Indians to break with the Indian National Congress Party, which spearheaded the anticolonial nationalist movement and now dominated Indian democracy. Rejecting Congress’s heavy-industrial developmental state and the accompanying rhetoric of socialism, Swatantra promised “free economy” through its project of opposition politics. As it circulated across various genres, “free economy” took on meanings that varied by region and language, caste and class, and won diverse advocates. These articulations, informed by but distinct from neoliberalism, came chiefly from communities in southern and western India as they embraced new forms of entrepreneurial activity. At their core, they connoted anticommunism, unfettered private economic activity, decentralized development, and the defense of private property. Opposition politics encompassed ideas and practice. Swatantra’s leaders imagined a conservative alternative to a progressive dominant party in a two-party system. They communicated ideas and mobilized people around such issues as inflation, taxation, and property. And they made creative use of India’s institutions to bring checks and balances to the political system. Democracy’s persistence in India is uncommon among postcolonial societies. By excavating a perspective of how Indians made and understood their own democracy and economy, Aditya Balasubramanian broadens our picture of neoliberalism, democracy, and the postcolonial world.

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Princeton University Press

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0691249296

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9780691249292

Poles Apart

The Military and Democracy in India and Pakistan

By: Aditya Sondhi

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Poles Apart

The Military and Democracy in India and Pakistan

By: Aditya Sondhi

Is there a predominant reason why India is not Pakistan? Many would likely point to the omnipresence of the military in the polity of the latter. While the interventionist attitude of the army in Pakistan easily explains the democratic shortfall in its history, the mirror opposite in India is rarely studied or credited. Poles Apart is a unique and original investigation of the comparative roles of the military, to study their influences on the growth of democracy in the two nations. The book highlights the divisive outcomes of military coups on Pakistan’s democratic trajectory while also closely analysing potential scenarios in India when the army could have gone astray, but chose to stay apolitical. Disgrace at the hands of China in 1962, the Emergency and Operation Blue Star, among others, make for fascinating case studies of how the army was treated shabbily but still remained politically disinclined. On the other hand, the overarching presence of Field Marshal Ayub Khan, General Yahya Khan, General Zia-ul-Haq and General Pervez Musharraf in the Pakistani political space represent a very different set of choices and interventions. A crisp chapter on Bangladesh and its experiments with democracy and martial rule rounds off the deeply researched study.

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Penguin Random House India Private Limited

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9357087613

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9789357087612

Pan and Dora's Box. Life is a Story - story.one

By: Aditya Deshmukh

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Pan and Dora's Box. Life is a Story - story.one

By: Aditya Deshmukh

Everything has a cost Pan and Dora belong together, but destiny doesn't let them. Not in this world. Their forbidden love exists only in a safely guarded box outside of space and time. When Pandora's box opens, their dreams threaten our world as a brutal dance of distorting dimensions manifests, consuming all in its wake. Pan and Dora might be able to restore the balance. But at what cost? Pan and Dora's Box is a cosmic horror story, but at its core, it's romance, deep, painful, raw, all too real. The kind that demands sacrifices. The kind that deserves those sacrifices. It's horror, the kind most of us know in some shape or form.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3710883873

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9783710883873

Kings, Spirits and Memory in Central India

Enchanting the State

By: Aditya Pratap Deo

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Kings, Spirits and Memory in Central India

Enchanting the State

By: Aditya Pratap Deo

Part anthropological history and part memoir, this book is a unique study of the polity of the colonial-princely state of Kanker in central India. The author, a scion of the erstwhile ruling family of Kanker, delves into the oral accounts given in the ancestral deity practices of the mixed tribe-caste communities of the region to highlight popular narratives of its historical polity. As he struggles with his own dilemmas as ethnographer-king, what comes into view is a polity where the princely state is drawn out amidst a terrain of gods and spirits as much as that of law courts and magistrates, and political power is divided, contested and shared between the raja/state and the people. This study constitutes not only an intervention in the larger debate on the relationship between state formations and tribal peoples, but also on the very nature of history as a knowledge practice, especially the understandings of power, authority and sovereignty in it. Combining intensive ethnography, complementary archival work and crucial theoretical questions engaging social scientists worldwide, the author charts an unusual explanatory path that can allow us to obtain a meaningful understanding of societies/peoples that have historically been marginalized and seen as different. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of history, anthropology, politics, religion, tribal society and Modern South Asia.

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247

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Taylor & Francis

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1000460940

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9781000460940

The CEO Who Lost His Head

By: Aditya Sinha

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The CEO Who Lost His Head

By: Aditya Sinha

Morning Analysis CEO Buster Das has been found dead in his office with his head bashed in. When unlikely detective duo Sandesh Solvekar and Mona Ramteke make it their mission to catch the reckless criminal, they find themselves knee-deep in Mumbai’s sordid world of dissolute starlets, business moguls and a sell-out media, even as they attempt to deal with a dysfunctional police machinery and their own secret lives. The list of suspects is also turning out to be a headscratcher: there’s the eccentric editor-in-chief; the irreverent dating editor; and several vice-presidents who would kill to be CEO. A whodunit as wicked as it is irresistible, this is a cracker of a novel that takes Indian crime writing to dazzling new heights.

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Pan Macmillan

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1509859365

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9781509859368

India's Struggle for Independence

By: Bipan Chandra,Mridula Mukherjee,Aditya Mukherjee,K N Panikkar,Sucheta Mahajan

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India's Struggle for Independence

By: Bipan Chandra,Mridula Mukherjee,Aditya Mukherjee,K N Panikkar,Sucheta Mahajan

India’s struggle for Independence by Bipin Chandra is your go to book for an in-depth and detailed overview on Indian independence movement . Indian freedom struggle is one of the most important parts of its history. A lot has been written and said about it, but there still remains a gap. Rarely do we get to hear accounts of the independence from the entire country and not just one region at one place. This book fits in perfectly in this gap and also provides a narration on the impact this movement had on the people. Bipin Chandra’s book is a well-documented history of India's freedom struggle against the British rule. It is one of the most accurate books which have been painstakingly written after thorough research based on legal and valid verbal and written sources. It maps the first war of independence that started with Mangal Pandey’s mutiny and witnessed the gallant effort of Sri Rani Laxmi Bai. Many of the pages of this book are dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi’s non-cooperation and the civil disobedience movements. It contains detailed description of Subash Chandra Bose’s weapon heavy tactics and his charisma. This book includes all the independence movements and fights, irrespective of their size and impact, covering India in its entirety. Although these movements varied in means and ideas, but they shared a common goal of independence. This book contains oral and written narratives from different parts of the country, making this book historically rich and diverse. The book captures the evolution of Indian independence struggle in full detail and leaves no chapter of this story untouched. This book is a good read for the students of Indian modern history and especially for students who are preparing for UPSC examination and have taken History as their subject.

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Penguin UK

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8184751834

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9788184751833

Rights of Forest Dwellers Through the lens of Forest Conservation Laws in India

By: Aditya Shekhar

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Rights of Forest Dwellers Through the lens of Forest Conservation Laws in India

By: Aditya Shekhar

This book is written with a view to provide readers with a comprehensive guide to the jurisprudence of forest laws in India. The book analyses, discusses and documents, every socially relevant piece of legislation governing forests in India. It traces the history of environmental jurisprudence giving a panoramic view to the existent legislations in India, their coming into being in light of the international developments. The authors discuss the right to environment as a human right, while simultaneously emphasising on the right to nature itself. Forests have assumed a significant position in India’s drive for ecological sustainability. The judges take an active part in the promotion and development of globally recognised concepts of sustainable development, outside government initiatives., a part of Indian environmental conservation framework. Moreover, giving forest sustainability its due importance, the Courts have contributed significantly by discussing the contribution of forests in the developmental process and bringing the issue of sustained use of the forest resource to the fore. Judgments have been delivered 8 highlighting the need for sustained growth practices which compensate for the forest loss and emphasize again and again on the need to conserve and maintain forests. Therefore, the book also embarks upon the judicial pronouncements and their role in exhibiting the rights of forest dwellers via judicial trajectory of these laws

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Perfect Writer Publishing

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8119288505

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9788119288502

India Since Independence

By: Bipan Chandra,Aditya Mukherjee,Mridula Mukherjee

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India Since Independence

By: Bipan Chandra,Aditya Mukherjee,Mridula Mukherjee

This volume analyses the challenges India has faced and the successes it has achieved, in the light of its colonial legacy and century long sruggle for freedom.

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Penguin Books India

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0143104098

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9780143104094

Elements of Clinical Study Design, Biostatistics & Research

By: S.S. Patel,Aditya Patel

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Elements of Clinical Study Design, Biostatistics & Research

By: S.S. Patel,Aditya Patel

Frontiers in Clinical Drug Research – Diabetes and Obesity is a book series that brings updated reviews to readers interested in advances in the development of pharmaceutical agents for the treatment of two metabolic diseases – diabetes and obesity. The scope of the series covers a range of topics including the medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, molecular biology and biochemistry of natural and synthetic drugs affecting endocrine and metabolic processes linked with diabetes and obesity. Reviews in this series also include research on specific receptor targets and preclinical / clinical findings on novel pharmaceutical agents. Frontiers in Clinical Drug Research – Diabetes and Obesity is a valuable resource for pharmaceutical scientists and postgraduate students seeking updated and critically important information for developing clinical trials and devising research plans in the field of diabetes and obesity research. The sixth volume of this series features 6 reviews which are informative guides to therapy and drug administration in diabetes and metabolic syndrome, for both the medical specialist and the pharmacologist. The failing heart in diabetes with special emphasis on prevention Flavonoids as prominent antidiabetic agents Chemosensor in glucose monitoring, advances and challenges Synergistic drugs and polyherbal formulations for obesity: current status and future prospectives Urge for herbal antidiabetic medicines towards clinical and therapeutic implications Curcuma longa as a dietary supplement and medication for diabetes mellitus: evidence from experimental studies

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Bentham Science Publishers

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9815123807

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9789815123807

Book's by Aditya Deshmukh

Toward a Free Economy

Toward a Free Economy

Poles Apart

Poles Apart

Pan and Dora's Box. Life is a Story - story.one

Pan and Dora's Box. Life is a Story - story.one

Kings, Spirits and Memory in Central India

Kings, Spirits and Memory in Central India

The CEO Who Lost His Head

The CEO Who Lost His Head

India's Struggle for Independence

India's Struggle for Independence

Rights of Forest Dwellers Through the lens of Forest Conservation Laws in India

Rights of Forest Dwellers Through the lens of Forest Conservation Laws in India

India Since Independence

India Since Independence

Elements of Clinical Study Design, Biostatistics & Research

Elements of Clinical Study Design, Biostatistics & Research

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