The author offers a comprehensive economic and political strategy to cope with globalization and maximize its benefits (less)

1. Geographical and historical background.

2. Towns, cities and markets.

3. Identification of trade items for import and export.

4. Merchants and guilds.

5. Mode of travel and transportation.

6. Methods and medium of payment.

7. Conclusion.

Glossary. Bibliography.

Index. "The thirteenth century opened new vistas in the world history, particularly Asia.

It witnessed the rise and fall of different dynasties and ultimately allowed the Mongols to survive as the mightiest power in China, Russia (Kipchak), Central Asia, and Persia for more than a century. They brought under their sway the Islamic lands of the orient except India where the Turks had already established themselves as a powerful state during this period.

The present study is the first of its kind dealing with India's overland trade with Central Asia and Persia during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The book seeks to interpret the working of the political forces in India and her (less)

Fernandis W.S.

Fernandis Vedams Books 8189937683 Accountancy Audit Afghanistan AIDS Amitabh Bachchan Animal Science Poultry, Cattle Camel Cattle and Dairy Farming Poultry Zoological Survey of India Publication Anthropology and Sociology Anthropological Survey of India Publications Architecture Vastu Arts of India Archaeology Mohenjodaro/Harappa/Indus Valley Civilization Art History Buddhist Art Mandalas Painting Pahari Rock Art Sculpture Textiles Art Astrology Palmistry Astronomy Ayurveda Bangladesh Bhutan Biographies and Memoirs Botanical Sciences Agronomy Algae Aromatic Plants Bamboo Biodiversity Botanical Survey of India Publications Ethnobotany/Medicinal Plants Floras of India Forestry Fungi/Mosses Herbs Horticulture Grape Mango Mushrooms Jatropha Mangroves Orchids Organic Farming Plant Science Teak Buddhism Central Asian Studies Children Christianity Cinema/Films Cricket Cuisine Dalits Dance and Performing Arts Bharatanatyam Kathak Kathakali Theatre Demography Dictionaries/Glossaries Ecology/Environment Economics/Dev Studies Education Distance Education English Literature Indian Fiction Entomology Geography Climatology Geological Sciences Geological Survey of India Publication Government Publications Herpetology Himalayas Hinduism Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute Publications Mahabharata (less)

Despite this lofty goal, however, the essays themselves remain down to earth, highly readable, and full of stories and ideas that make us think differently about the business world around us.The majority of these essays were written in the 1960s, and in them Drucker specifically examines that turbulent decade, yielding conclusions that are as timeless as they are fresh.

He places the merger mania of the decade in the context of business history of the twentieth century, and arrives at fundamental questions about mass market economies. He questions the personal and political values of 1960s adolescents, and ends up relating them to the concurrent rise of big complex modern institutions.

He examines with equal vigor Japan's management successes, the role of politics and economics in American identity, and the "real" Kirkegaard (less)

1. Background of Indian Muslim politics: rebellion of 1857 and leadership by feudal elements.

2. First stage of modern Muslim politics.

3. Second stage of Indian Muslim politics.

4. Third stage of Muslim politics: period of confusion and the demand for Pakistan.

5. Real reasons of our political backwardness.

6. The ideology and practices of Jamaa’t-I-Islami.

7. Khilafat-i-Rashida and Democracy.

8. Islamic monarchy, imperialism and the revivalist movements in Islam.

9. Contemporary demands and progressive Muslim thought.

Appendices. Index.

"This book was first published in Urdu in 1963. It was written at a time when Islamic fundamentalism was being aggressively propagated among the Indian Muslims.

The author counters the time space independent and eternal vision of bookish Islam with historical perspective, in which Islam emerged and spread, to explain the reasons why Islam turned into a hurricane of change and why today it is not so. It is underlined by (less)

Hayat's father is less enthusiastic. Ever wary of fundamentalism, he doesn't relish the idea of Mina's fervid devotion under his roof.

What no one expects is that when Mina shows Hayat the beauty of the Quran, it will utterly transform him.Mina's real magic may be that the Shah household becomes a happy one.

But when Mina catches the eye of a Jewish doctor and family friend, Hayat's jealousy is enflamed by the community's anti-Semitism - and he acts with catastrophic consequences for those he loves most (less)

Introduction. 1.

India's involvement in anti-dumping cases in the first decade of WTO/K.D.

Raju. 2.

Calculating normal value as way of protection: some evident from Turkish dumping investigations/Cengiz Bahcekapili and Murat Cokgezen. 3.

Anti-dumping procedures: lessons for developing countries with special emphasis on the South African experience/Nicola Theron. 4.

The growing problem of intra-developing country anti-dumping actions in world trade/Kofi Oteng Kufuor. 5.

The rhetoric and reality of US Anti-Dumping Law/Brink Lindsey and Daniel Ikenson. 6.

Anti-Dumping in the European Union/Fredrik Erixon. 7.

Why is China the world's number one Anti-Dumping Target?/Yuefen Li. 8.

Misuse of Anti-Dumping Provisions: what do the WTO disputes reveal?/Debashis Chakraborty. Index.

"The increasing use of anti-dumping measures covering a wide range of sectors, both by developed and developing countries in recent years, indicates a policy substitution to protect domestic industries in the face of tariff reforms. While the developing countries are demanding special and different treatment to (less)

Introduction: spatial politics and postcolonial Sri Lanka/Tariq Jazeel and Cathrine Brun. 2.

The imagined spaces of empire/Nira Wickramasinghe. 3.

Coffee, disease, and the 'simultaneity of stories-so-far' in the highlands of 19 century Ceylon/James Duncan. 4.

The distance of a shout/Sharon Bell. 5.

Cartographic violence: engaging a Sinhala kind of geography/Benedikt Korf. 6.

Geography, spatial politics, and productions of the national in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost/Tariq Jazeel. 7.

Meeting places? Centre and periphery in civil society peace work/Camilla Orjuela. 8.

Rebuilding lives, undermining oppositions: spaces of war and peace in the north/Nihal Perera. 9.

Fractured sovereignty: the LTTE's state-building in an interconnected world/Oivind Fuglerud. 10.

Concluding thoughts/Cathrine Brun and Tariq Jazeel. Afterword/Pradeep Jeganathan.

Index. Spatialising Politics : Culture and Geography in Postcolonial Sri Lanka brings together a collection of essays that take as their theme the spatial politics of Sri Lanka.

It highlights the importance of space in the ongoing ethnic conflict fuelling (less)

I. Historical background: 1.

The geography and history of Afghanistan/Sirdar Iqbal Ali Shah. 2.

British relations with Afghanistan from 1855 to 1869/H.B.

Hanna. 3.

Kabul/A.C.

Jewett. II.

Soviet intervention: 4. Soviet intervention in Afghanistan: a Third World perspective/Iftekharuzzaman.

5. Resistance movement in Afghanistan (1979-81)/Mahfooz Ahmad.

6. Resistance in Afghanistan: the Panjshir model/Rahimullah Yusufzai.

7. Sovietization of Afghan society/Naseem Rizvi.

III. Post-Soviet Afghanistan: 8.

Afghanistan: Soviet withdrawal and after/Mohammad Humayun Kabir. 9.

Post-Communist Afghanistan: implications, challenges and prospects for a new order/Mohammad Humayun Kabir and Abu Taher Salahuddin Ahmed. 10.

Peace-keeping and reconciliation in Afghanistan/Mahmoud Mesteri. 11.

Afghanistan: power struggle among the rival groups/Mansoor Akbar Kundi. 12.

Changing matrix of Afghan conflict/P. Stobdan.

13. The Taliban factor in the ongoing Afghan Civil War/Sreedhar.

IV. Afghanistan and the international community: 14.

US policy towards Afghanistan/Chintamani Mahapatra. 15.

India’s options in Afghanistan/R.S.

Chauhan. 16.

The Afghan Civil War: Pakistan re-asserts while India ignores/Aabha (less)

The book provides an account of the different ports and dominions that existed during that period. It highlights the role played by the different dynasties such as the Cholas and Pallavas in the overall development of international trade.

The book paints a picture of the business connections that the Tamil provinces shared with different parts of the world, from Rome to the South East. It further divulges the factors that led to the administrative developments during this period and the pivotal role played by the traders in bolstering the economy in Southern India (less)

Concept of trade. 2.

The backdrop. 3.

Trade and finance. 4.

Traits of business. 5.

Conduction of business. 6.

Rules for sales. 7.

Technique of setting prices. 8.

Economic matters and law. 9.

Relevance of Islamic economy. 10.

Economic policy in Islam. Bibliography.

Index. "Islam considers business and trade to be the best mode of earning.

And, among the different types of trade, Halal business is recommended as the best by Islam. Money earned through hard work and fair means is full of benefits.

On the one hand, hard work is vitalizing and keeps the body active and ready to work; on the other hand, it promotes a healthy life. During the time of the Prophet (Pbuh), people would go from city to city in groups (called carvans) to trade.

This involved travel to far-off places where people sold their commodities and brought back the products available there. There are advantages of (less)

1. The Golden age of the Vedas and the dark age of Kali: Tantrism, orientalism, and the Bengal renaissance.

2. Sacrificing white goats to the Goddess: Tantra and political violence in colonial India.

3. India's darkest heart: Tantra in the literary imagination.

4. Deodorized Tantra: sex, scandal, secrecy, and censorship in the works of John Woodroffe and Swami Vivekananda.

5. Religion for the age of darkness: Tantra and the history of religions in the twentieth century.

6. The cult of ecstasy: meldings of east and west in a new age of Tantra.

Conclusion: reimagining Tantra in contemporary discourse. Notes.

Bibliography. Index.

"A complex body of religious practices that spread throughout the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions; a form of spirituality that seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life--Tantra has played a central yet conflicted role in (less)

Despite this lofty goal, however, the essays themselves remain down to earth, highly readable, and full of stories and ideas that make us think differently about the business world around us.The majority of these essays were written in the 1960s, and in them Drucker specifically examines that turbulent decade, yielding conclusions that are as timeless as they are fresh.

He places the merger mania of the decade in the context of business history of the twentieth century, and arrives at fundamental questions about mass market economies. He questions the personal and political values of 1960s adolescents, and ends up relating them to the concurrent rise of big complex modern institutions.

He examines with equal vigor Japan's management successes, the role of politics and economics in American identity, and the "real" Kirkegaard (less)

In search of a national theatre: 1. 'The national drama of the Hindus': Harishchandra of Banaras and the 'classical' traditions in late-nineteenth-century India.

2. Twentieth-century projections of the past: Jayshankar Prasad and the new subjectivity.

3. Neither half nor whole: Mohan Rakesh and the modernist quest.

II. The nation and its 'Folk': 4.

Folk theatre and the search for an indigenous idiom: Brecht in India. 5.

Brecht in Hindi: the poetics of response. 6.

'To be more Brechtian is to be more Indian': on the theatre of Habib Tanvir. III.

What is Indian?: 7. Encountering the other, accosting the self.

8. 'I am a Hindu': assertions and queries.

Index. "This book addresses the political and aesthetic concerns of modern Indian theatre, tracing its genealogies, and looking in particular at its appropriation of 'folk' theatre, as it sought to constitute itself anew after independence.

In the heady early decades of the nation's self-discovery, (less)

Illiberal democracy and ethnic conflict/Neil De Votta: 1. From ethnic outbidding to ethnic conflict: the institutional bases for Sri Lanka's separatist war.

2. Ethnolinguistic nationalism and ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka.

3. Sri Lanka's political decay: comparing the October 2000 and December 2001 parliamentary elections.

4. Civil society and illiberal democracy in Sri Lanka.

5. Civil society and non-governmental organizations in Sri Lanka: peacemakers or parasites?.

II. War and peace processes/P.

Sahadevan: 6. Strategies of ethnic war and peace.

7. Negotiating peace with the Ltte.

8. Fighting for the Tamil Eelam: the Ltte's commitment to Armed struggle.

9. India's changing role in the ethnic conflict.

Index. "This book details the manner in which Sri Lanka has missed numerous opportunities to secure peace between its two principal ethnic communities and how the intractable ethnic conflict has placed the country in a dire state.

It provides and institutionalist explanation to the conflict, examines the (less)

1. Introduction.

2. What can civil society do for peace? theoretical debates and dilemmas.

3. Dealing with identity in peace work.

4. Identity and violent conflict in Sri Lanka.

5. A movement for peace? 6.

Civil society peace work; does it matter? 7. Peaceful identities? 8.

Conclusions. References.

Index. About the author.

"This book looks at civil society and peace movements in the context of the identity-based armed conflict in Sri Lanka. Focusing on the identity politics inherent in peace work, it demonstrates why civil society groups engaged in peace activities often fail to enhance the sense of security among civilians and are also unable to challenge the underlying structures of war.

The book highlights the role peace organisations play in providing alternatives to dominant discourses of militarism. It draws on unique empirical material, including 150 interviews with leaders, participants and key actors involved in civil society peace work in (less)

Ecological security of the Himalayas. 2.

Ancient communities of the Himalayas. 3.

The survival economy and forest conflicts in Himalayas. 4.

Rebellion as confrontation: People's Ecological Movement in Kumaon and Garhwal over forest rights. 5.

The Chipko Movement. 6.

Chipko: Social history of an 'Environmental' Movement. 7.

Development Project vis-a-vis ethno-religious sentiments: the Rathong Chu Imbroglio in Sikkim. 8.

Background to political unrest in Nepal. 9.

Security and political environment: a Nepalese perspective. 10.

Nepal: Quest of elusive peace. 11.

The roots and the emergence of the Maoists. 12.

The end of Shangri-La. 13.

Tibetan legend. 14.

Political, economic, and religious relations between Mongolia and Tibet. 15.

Bhutan: Political culture and national dilemma. 16.

Ethnic stalemate and crisis of confidence. 17.

Gender disparity in level of literacy: a case of Uttaranchal. 18.

The role of women in the Uttaranchal Regional Movement. 19.

Women's empowerment: types of marital relationship--Polygyny, Polyandry and divorce in (less)

Acknowledgement. 1.

Dynamics of Trade Liberalisation in Bangladesh. 2.

Trade Liberalisation and economic growth: a review of theory and evidence. 3.

Trade Liberalisation in Bangladesh: overview of the policies and programmes. 4.

Bangladesh's Trade Liberalisation in a changing perspective: a time-series evaluation. 5.

Bangladesh's Trade Liberalisation in a global prospective a comparative analysis. 6.

Trade Liberalisation and growth nexus: a dynamic panel econometric study on Bangladesh manufacturing industries. 7.

Short-run vs. Long-run Macro impacts of Trade Liberalisation: an inter-temporal computable general equilibrium model of Bangladesh.

8. Summary and conclusions.

References. Index.

"Trade Liberalisation has been one of the major policy reforms in Bangladesh. This book aims to assess the dynamics of Trade Liberalisation, which include an examination of the theoretical and empirical literature on the 'Trade Liberalisation--Growth Nexus', an evaluation of the changes in the policy regimes in Bangladesh, an examination of the changes in the extent of Trade Liberalisation in Bangladesh (less)