Reference Works

There is so much violence in the world today, bag-snatchers are lurking in almost every street corner, ordinary muggers and other bad elements are always looking for their prey.So everybody thinks about safety...

Durgabai Deshmukh, a source of inspiration to many, was a social worker, a political activist, a member of the Planning Commission, and Chairperson of the Central Social Welfare Board. She was also a builder of...

Clueless in California is a breezy humor-laced account of an Indian diplomat’s experiences in America. This collection includes hilarious, heartwarming and sometimes poignant vignettes of the Indian-American...

An encyclopaedia of Nobel Laureates going back to 1901. It also serves as reference book, as the entries include a brief biographical sketch along with their contributions. The book contains the photographs of...

This book is a comprehensive and veritable disquisition on human trafficking, loathsome disaster inflicted on human beings by human beings. It is an empowering treatise, prescribing practical and doable...

In this rights-based study of the ICDS programme sponsored by the Council for Social Development, New Delhi, Venugopal holds a mirror up to the way this flagship programme of the Government of India is faring...

This book on the world's widows has primarily been written to convince the United Nations that the exploitation, torture and humiliation of widows the world over and the stress that their children are put to is...

The volume stitches together a vast canvas that begins with historical demography and moves on to examine ethnographic perspectives, gender, family health and the ageing population of Asia. Tim Dyson and...

Slow progress in socio-economic change in the large and backward north Indian state of Madhya Pradesh is a signal for a new look at the old Gandhian model of self-help through voluntary action. The book maps...

Modern conflict resolution has emerged as an independent discipline since the 1980s. In many parts of the world training in coflict resolution is imparted through workshops especially designed for diplomats,...

India and China historically share similar developmental issuesIndia and China historically share similar developmental issues with differential policy strategies. The last two decades have seen significant...

The shadow of global financial crises of 2007 ...

A statesman and a leader of the masses, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar always also remained a reflective thinker, erudite scholar and a prolific writer. Even while being fully engrossed in mass movements and political...

Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar was a great social reformer, a valiant champion of human rights ...