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MAKING DEVELOPMENT DELIVER BETTER

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MAKING DEVELOPMENT DELIVER BETTER

By: Moin Qazi

This book, authored by a well-known development professional, Moin Qazi, gives those who care about India a chance to brainstorm their ideas for making India a place of equal opportunities and democratised development. The active representatives of NGOs, philanthropies, multi-and-bi-lateral agencies, activists, thinkers, academics and all fellow travellers on the road to helping India progress – whether students, professionals or retired individuals. From the public sector, we invite government officials, development administrators and implementing agencies. When entrusted with the levers of power, all political parties assured everyone they would prepare a roadmap for lasting strategies to alleviate the issues of the marginalised sections. However, it has always remained unclear whether they resolve these issues sincerely. The reality of the outcome is known to everyone. This book reminds everyone who has worked out assurances and promises to end the plight of various sections of the suffering population. Though the book’s contents may sound slightly dull, the author has tried to make it a candid, plain-spoken, engaging and gripping memoir. It is a propulsive account of India’s rural politics, economics, and sociology. The author has garnished his book with swashbuckling stories of adventure among the rural zealots and explores the underbelly of village culture. He highlights a side of him that often gets eclipsed by his image as a zealous partisan — that of the caring rural crusader who focuses on empowering the female population. Devastating as this elegant and honest account maybe — it’s certainly not for the faint of heart — it also leaves the reader with a sense of knowing a lovely and lively career in India’s hinterland.

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A Reader on Financial Inclusion

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A Reader on Financial Inclusion

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The official emphasis on financial inclusion keeps re-emerging in policy discourses and among bankers, who are critical of its architecture, despite the earnestness and enthusiasm in pursuing it. In the face of initial bursts of euphoria, the movement develops fatigue for commercial reasons. The agenda regularly falls by the side –first from discussion tables and then from policy engagement. Banks face many constraints; the high cost of driving financial inclusion in remote geographies is not sustainable. The main reason for the earlier failures was that the goals were more idealistic than realistic However, in the last few years, that agenda appears to have gained significant traction even as it is still going through the honeymoon period in the Jan-Dhan avatar. People have wholeheartedly embraced it and see great promise in it. But they are still not entirely convinced of it achieving its touted potential. Access to suitable finances is critical in overcoming the complex everyday realities for those living in penny economies. It can allow them to move out of poverty or build resilience to absorb a financial shock without sinking deeper into debt. Financial services increase savings, remove barriers to credit, ease the burden of debt, and help people weather unexpected tragedies.

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Muslim Women Reclaim their Gender Legacy

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Muslim Women Reclaim their Gender Legacy

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In this book, the author, Moin Qazi, delineates the trajectory of Islamic feminism, which scholars are now actively researching because of the transformative advances made by Muslim women. These women have escaped the subjugation and oppression they endured for centuries. The continuing grim portrayals of these women hit the author's nerve. He believed it was imperative to highlight modern Muslim women's true breadth of experience. The Islamic feminist landscape is already undergoing a profound transformation. Historically, Islam was incredibly advanced in providing revolutionary rights for women and uplifting their status. Scholarship on Islamic women has expanded exponentially over the past few decades, and there has been cross-pollination between other fields and disciplines. Islamic doctrine has enabled women to participate in battlefields, independently carry on trade and business, and, when circumstances demand it. The most outstanding achievement of early Islam concerning women was its strict prohibition of female infanticide. A preference for male babies was evidence of deep-seated bias against girls. Many of the revelations in the Qur'an were by nature reform-oriented, transforming critical aspects of pre-Islamic customary laws and practices in progressive ways and eliminating injustice for women. The book is a prism from which to view the Muslim feminist revolution. The author analyses how the patriarchal-oriented rulers and clerics have obliquely tried to roll back these reforms. But of late, women have finally been able to morph from their pathetic condition and redefine the contours of their gender space.

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A Journey into Soulscape

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A Journey into Soulscape

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This book is largely a result of notes compiled by the author during the course of his studies and readings that straddled a vast canvas of life; spiritualism, academics, journalism, law, philosophy and literature. It is not a discourse but is truly a journey into the soul, and an initiation. The pages of this book are a strange mixture of analytic thought, mysticism, literature, eastern philosophies, western thought, religions, the sciences, psychology and the arts. The book surely has its own window. But the window invites us to open our own windows to look through the prism of every human being so that we know, understand and appreciate each other better. The author has drawn from a vast range of sources that span continents and cultures. What emerges is a kaleidoscopic canvas of shimmering stars of wisdom. Through this collection of essays, the author has tried to open the minds of people to a new view of humanity.

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A Need to Relook at Islam

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A Need to Relook at Islam

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In this book, the author, Moin Qazi, has explored the significant themes of Islam in both the classical and modern contexts. He has authored several books on Islam with a distinct and unique approach to the subject. Islam remains a staggeringly diverse and complicated religion in its geographical and political reach, making reforms difficult. Every religious ideal has a historical time and context. The circumstances for its realization will not be sufficient to sustain any perpetual decree or pronouncement sustainably. The reform process is inevitable and is instrumental in bringing about a religious ideal and giving it dynamic momentum, inclusiveness, flexibility, etc. While the reform advocates change, we must remember that the underlying cultural nuances, particularly the last mile ones, ensure the dynamism that regulates the various balancing checks in preserving and safeguarding the existing values, norms, ideals, decrees, etc. and provide improvised means of implementing them simultaneously. It propagates gradual change in certain aspects of social, religious, ideological, etc. realms rather than in rapid, fundamental, or revolutionary ways.

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THE EXECUTIVE GUIDE TO BUSINESS COMMUNICATION

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THE EXECUTIVE GUIDE TO BUSINESS COMMUNICATION

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This book demonstrates how your choice of language can influence your reader.The book keeps speed with the latest developments in the field of communication and draws on practices used at reputed business schools like Wharton, Kellogg and Harvard. It equips managers with skills to navigate the varying needs, demands and challenges of their audience with courtesy, strength, consideration and confidence. Apart from its academic grounding, which includes explanations of theoretical bases of various concepts, the book draws liberally on practical examples that have been culled from actual successful organisational practices. It gives you writing secrets used by the world's best business leaders that you too can use to great effect in your own business writing.

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Village Diary of a Heretic Banker

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Village Diary of a Heretic Banker

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VILLAGE DIARY OF A HERETIC BANKER is more a diary than an instructive guide. The diary provides the flavour of the author’s personal experiences as a rural banker and his engagement with the poor in the remote crannies of India. The seed around which the book crystallises is the intrinsic tenacity and grit of poor rural women that can be harnessed into energetic powerhouses to drive our rural society onto the road to prosperity. The book carries in its pages the poignant nostalgia of the author for villages but it is also tinged at places with rage and despair. The message in this book is that there is no grand, universal formula for poverty reduction. The battle has to be fought on several fronts and what works in one place does not necessarily work everywhere. The way forward lies in grassroots field experiments for understanding the causal relationships in poor people’s behaviour and in learning by doing. The author’s faith in poor people’s ability to climb out of the rut is unshakeable and his core belief is gradualism. The author believes that lasting social change most often—and perhaps always—comes slowly rather than in a burst of revolutionary fervour. It is this belief that has shaped his work. He also believes that lasting change can be effected only when women are given equal opportunities for financial empowerment The author firmly believes that it is possible to eliminate poverty in our country—provided we re-examine the received wisdom of our assumptions. The poor are poor not because they are unskilled or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labour. They neither own capital, nor does anyone give them access to credit, except on the most unreasonable terms. They live on the edge, in constant fear of a catastrophe or tragedy, but they have no insurance because insurance companies consider them a losing proposition. And the State’s social safety nets are not only grossly inadequate but mired in corruption and bureaucratic red tape. During his efforts in development finance and rural development work for over three decades, the author has seen projects and strategies succeed as well as fail. He has seen misguided project designs, poor implementation and squandering of large sums of money. But he also witnessed incredible achievements. When development works well, he argues, it can transform lives by providing the underprivileged the capital and knowledge that can open up opportunities for them and reduce their poverty.

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9384049530

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The Essential Microfinance

By: A Ramesh Kumar,Moin Qazi

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The Essential Microfinance

By: A Ramesh Kumar,Moin Qazi

This book is an exhaustive handbook on microfinance covering more than 600 concepts and ideas .Since poverty alleviation remains a top agenda for development programs and microfinance has proved the most effective approach for combating it, there was a growing demand among students, academics, journalists, bankers and general readers for a handy companion on microfinance. The text examines what has become a vast global industry employing hundreds of thousands of people and attracting the attention of large numbers of governments, banks, aid agencies, non-governmental organizations and consultancy firms. In this book the authors try to help students, who are relatively new to microfinance, practitioners looking for an entry point into the vast academic literature, and policy makers to become acquainted with the main ideas and debates about microfinance. The main objective of the book is to equip the reader with sound understanding of the various concepts in microfinance and their relevance to contemporary financial programmes so that the user is in a position to process business proposals in microfinance.

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The Millennial Sovereign

Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam

By: A. Azfar Moin

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The Millennial Sovereign

Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam

By: A. Azfar Moin

This book brings into dialogue two major fields of scholarship that are rarely studied together: sacred kingship and sainthood in Islam. In doing so, it offers an original perspective on both. In historical terms, the foucs here is on the Mughal empire in sixteenth-century India and its antecedents and parallels in Timurid Central Asia and Safavid Iran."--Introduction, p. [1].

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A Need to Relook at Islam

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A Need to Relook at Islam

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The Lost Fragrance of Infinity

By: Moin Mir

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The Lost Fragrance of Infinity

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Moin Mir is a London based writer of Indian origin. He began writing under the influence of his grandfather, a scholar of Sufism, Omar Khayyam and Mirza Ghalib. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book Surat: Fall of a Port, Rise of a Prince. The Lost Fragrance of Infinity is his second book. Mir speaks frequently at leading international literature festivals on topics ranging from Sufism, history and travel writing.

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THE EXECUTIVE GUIDE TO BUSINESS COMMUNICATION

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Khomeini

Life of the Ayatollah

By: Baqer Moin

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Khomeini

Life of the Ayatollah

By: Baqer Moin

The Ayatollah Khomeini was the most radical Muslim leader of this age. In transforming himself from a traditional Muslim theologian into the charismatic Iranian ruler who took on the world, Khomeini launched an Islamic revival movement that, with the collapse of communism, quickly evolved for some as the centre-piece in the pantheon of western demonology, and for others as the inspiration for spiritual and political rebirth. Whether viewed as a hero by his supporters or as a villain by his enemies, Khomeini was undoubtedly one of the seminal figures of the twentieth century, whose influence will extend some way into the new millennium. Baqer Moin here explores how and why this frail octogenarian, dressed in the traditional robes of a Muslim cleric, overthrew the secular Shah of Iran and became the spiritual leader of a new and militant Islamic regime. Still an enigma in the West, Khomeini transformed the Middle East and the world. But where did the man come from? What was his childhood and family background? What lay behind his implacable opposition to the Shah? What role did the turbulent events in Iran during his youth play in shaping Khomeini's political perceptions? What changed him from an obscure traditional theologian with mystical and poetic inclinations into a combative and highly vengeful radical? How will his vision of an international community of Muslims, a kind of Islamic Internationale, affect the Middle East? Drawing on many exclusive personal interviews with Khomeini's associates, on unpublished new materials and on the author's firsthand experience in Islamic seminaries, this biography provides a fascinating, well-documented and highly accessible analysis of the life and thought of one of the most controversial leaders of the late twentieth century.

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1466893060

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Surat: Fall of a Port, Rise of a Prince: Defeat of the East India Company in the House of Commons

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Surat: Fall of a Port, Rise of a Prince: Defeat of the East India Company in the House of Commons

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Born and raised in India, Moin Mir has worked extensively in the fields of advertising and brand consulting across Europe and Asia. Driven by his passion for History, Sufism and cultural revivalism and restoration, Mir began by working on the translation of Mirza Ghalib’s (India’s foremost Urdu poet) letters into English – a project that inspired him to pursue his interests in History even further. Mir is a descendant of Hazrat Modud Chishti, one of the stalwart founders of the Chishti Sufi order. He is also a scion of the Nawab family of Surat and next in line to succeed his father as the Darbar of Kamandiyah, Gujarat India. He lives in London with his fiancé Leonie Moschner.

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The Prince Who Beat the Empire

How an Indian Ruler Took on the Might of the East India Company

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The Prince Who Beat the Empire

How an Indian Ruler Took on the Might of the East India Company

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An acclaimed story of empire and resistance. The rebel prince who beat the world's most powerful corporation. 'A wonderful book' Dominic West.

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Village Diary of a Heretic Banker

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A Journey into Soulscape

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The Mission Of Prophet Muhammad

God's peace be upon him

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The Mission Of Prophet Muhammad

God's peace be upon him

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The life of Prophet Muhammad has provided inspiration to Muslims for hundreds of years. The Prophet occupies a unique place in the life and conscience of Muslims. In this profound and stimulating biography, the author shows how the Prophet’s message can be used to address a vast range of contemporary issues. The author focuses on the continuing relevance of the Prophet’s life and teachings in the contemporary context and strives to underline those aspects which have made them the touchstones of faith and purity of thought and action

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Women In Islam- Exploring New Paradigms

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Women In Islam- Exploring New Paradigms

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Women in Islam: Exploring new Paradigms is a revolutionary book that explores the vast literature and canonical texts on the rights of Muslim women. The author argues that the revelation of Qur’an marked a watershed in the history of Muslim women. It empowered them in several ways. If women are oppressed today it is on account of factors extrinsic to Islam: had the true intent of the Qur’an been followed, there would have been gender equality, but this true intent was undermined by Arabian patriarchal practices and by imports from surrounding in egalitarian civilizations .He believes that the solution lies not in reforming but in rediscovering Islam. Differences regarding gender status are attributed primarily to the way the Qur’an has been predominantly interpreted, especially in the shari’a (holy law)

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Healing the Hindu-Muslim Divide

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Healing the Hindu-Muslim Divide

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This book is an attempt to initiate a dialogue between Hindus and Muslims to explore how best we can cool the seething anger and douse the angry flames that have incited religious ideologies and are staggering at a rapid pace. The conflagration of the crisis appears headed for a volcano. Since 1947, India and Pakistan have shared profound affinities across ferociously policed borders, A few decades back, India was an amalgam of rare mysticism, its stages adorned with efflorescent strains of hereditary culture. The great 14th-century Sufi poet Amir Khusrau wrote qawwali, a poetic form derived from Arabic chants, using a female persona and imagery derived from the cult of the Hindu god Krishna. Sri Ramakrishna Paramhamsa, India’s most influential yogi in the 19th century, spent many years dressed in different costumes. India was the world’s busiest cultural crossroads, receiving and transmitting cultural influences between East and West, North and South. The divergence between Hindus and Muslims became ongoing after Britain divided the country. India’s independence and the emergence of Pakistan in 1947 have unquestionably impacted mutual relations, as underlined by the ongoing religious anxiety and increase in community riots. We may have to infuse rich cultural vigour to heal the wounded civilisation. What we need is to temper our speech and slough off prejudices with a respectful and helpful attitude.

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Muslim Women Reclaim their Gender Legacy

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Muslim Women Reclaim their Gender Legacy

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Woven Wonders of the Deccan

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Woven Wonders of the Deccan

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Indian hand woven fabrics have been known since time immemorial. Poets of the Mughal durbar likened our muslins to baft hawa (woven air), abe rawan (running water) and shabnam (morning dew). A tale runs that Emperor Aurangzeb had a fit of rage when he one day saw his daughter princess Zeb-un-Nissa clad in almost nothing. On being severely rebuked, the princess explained that she had not one but seven jamahs (dresses) on her body. Such was the fineness of the hand woven fabrics..The author, who has spent several decades working for the promotion of handicrafts, provides unique insights into the lives of weavers striving to preserve the traditional textiles of the Deccan.

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Banking in India’s Hinterland

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Banking in India’s Hinterland

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Banking in India’s Hinterland" isn't your typical how-to guide. Instead, it's a compelling account of the author's experiences as a rural banker in India. Through personal stories, the book sheds light on the struggles of impoverished communities, particularly the strength and resilience of poor rural women. The author argues there's no one-size-fits-all solution to poverty. He emphasizes the need for local experimentation and a deep understanding of local contexts. His core belief lies in gradual change and empowering the poor, especially women, through financial resources and education. The book offers a hopeful message. The author, based on his three decades of experience, believes poverty can be tackled by equipping the underprivileged with the tools they need to break free from the cycle.

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