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Jim Williams and Navroz K. Dubash (eds.). 2004. The Political Economy of Electricity Reform in Asia. Special issue of Pacific Affairs vol. 77, Issue 3, Fall 2004.

The world's population touched six billion in October 1999, having doubled in 40 years.  Since them some 400 million more souls have been added.  A large part of this huge increase has been registered in South Asia, with India alone now accounting for a sixth of the human race.  World production of farm and industrial production has risen exponentially to meet growing demands.  This has exerted growing pressures on humankind's finite resources of fresh water, aggravated by pollution and uncertainities of climate change.

Improving service delivery for the poor is an important way to help the poor lift themselves out of poverty.  Are You Being Served? presents and evaluates tools and techniques to measure service delivery and increase quality in health and education.  The authors highlight field experience in deploying these methods through a series of case studies from 12 countries around the world.  Different methodological tools used to evaluate public-sector performance are presented along with country-specific experiences that highlight the

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This handbook comprehensively analyses trends in urbanization using the most recent census data.  The study discusses trends, patterns, growth, and the socioeconomic characteristics of urbanization as well as the availability of infrastructure, migration trends, and employment opportunities.  Covering 17 major states across India it provides regional dimensions and micro-level perspectives, by bringing in district level analysis of two developed states – Maharashtra and Punjab, and two relatively backward states – Rajasthan and Bihar.

This volume provides an overview of a range of tools for measuring service delivery and offers valuable lessons on the opportunities and constraints practitioners face in measuring performance. The authors investigate country cases using data from a range of sources in a variety of contexts. Their experiences yield important insights on how to avoid pitfalls, what practices to improve, and how to learn the most from the data at hand. Taken together, those lessons represent an important step in strengthening accountability and governance so as to enhance service delivery.

Northeast India has endured decades of conflicts that have kept much of the region militarized, subject to restrictions on civil rights, and economically underdeveloped. In this volume, contributors from diverse fields – ranging from the social sciences, philosophy, and cultural studies, to journalism and the civil services – reflect on new ways of approaching and resolving these conflicts.

The author has presented a systematic exposition of the provisions of the Constitution. He has intended to constitute an objective and faithful commentary on the text of the articles of the Constitution without any pre-conceived notions or encukmbrances, the emphasis is on the original source of each article, how it evolved through the different stages of Constitution-making in the Constituent Assembly and ever since 1950.

Ever since China initiated a programme of economic reforms in 1978 aimed at the gradual introduction of a market economy, it set its sights on the \'Four Modernisations\' - modernisations of agriculture, industry, science and technology and defence. The book examines the factors which influenced the reorientation of strategy as well as changes coursing through China, transforming its identity.

This is the fourth volume of the History of Parliament. It covers the firth and the sixth Lok Sabha Periods (1971-1979). During the years, there were many positive achievements and moments of glory for the nation : decisive victory in the war with Pakistan, liberation of Bangladesh, Shimla Agreement, Indo-Soviet Treaty, Sikkim\'s integration and successful nuclear explosion establishing India\'s capability. Also, for the first time, there was peaceful transfer of power and the polity came close to developing a two-party system.

This is the sixth and concluding volume of History of Parliament of the India. It covers the period of ninth and tenth Lok Sabhas (1989-1996). One chapter is devoted to the rise and decline of the Indian Parliament and a recap and summing up of its changing face and functions during the past half-century. The most valuable and contemporaneously relevant is the concluding chapter appropriately titled \'The Road Ahead\'.

With the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean has been one of the regions of the world with the greatest inequality.

This book analyses the institutions of governance - the Legislature, the Judiciary and the Executive, including the cabinet and the civil services, in the five South Asian countries - Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India. It also seeks to examine whether - notwithstanding the differences - there emerge areas of commonality of experiences, interest, problems and possible policy options in the matter of building of institutions and their inter-relationships as contributing to good governance.

Nuclear Proliferation: The US-Indian Conflict is a detailed account of the evolution of U.S. nuclear export controls over the decades and a history of the two countries\\\' discord on nuclear issues, rooted in the 1970 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and India\\\'s so-called peaceful nuclear explosion (PNE) in 1974. That discord brought disputes over the U.S.-built Tarapur nuclear power plant in India to the centerstage. 

This books deals comprehensively with the evolution of Indian nuclear weapons strategy, policy and posture. The first half of the book constitutes a substantial revisionist history in the main tracing the country\\\'s strategic ethos and culture to the Hindu machatpolitik of Vedic India dispassionately deconstructing Mahatma Gandhi\\\'s doctrine of non-violence, which was more a political tool to discomfit the British Raj than a blueprint for independent India\\\'s defence and disclosing Jawaharlal Nehru\\\'s basic realpolitik orientation.

India’s democratic polity—thriving amidst enormous social and cultural diversity and persistent inequalities—has long been an anomaly in democratic theory. In the context of India’s increasing ascendancy on the global stage, it has also become a subject of widespread popular interest. The Oxford Companion to Politics in India addresses this interest by presenting a wide-ranging and comprehensive survey of politics in India today.

The Present study attempts to identify the problems, analyse political, economic and systemic causes, examine policy options and suggest a concrete blueprint for political reforms to ensure sovereignty of the citizens.

The 73rd and the 74th Amendments to the Indian Constitution which came into effect in 1993 represents a major systemic change in the structure of government in India. It has the potential to provide for multi-level governance ensuring empowerment of local governments and their accountability to the people.

Political thinking and policy making in India have long been influenced by the belief that India is a rural country. The Census of 1981 and 1991 have helped in assailing these perceptions. In percentage terms the 1991 Census indicated about 25% of the population to be urban. The figure has gone upto 28%, according to the Census of 2001. But these arithmetical averages ignore the reality of absolute numbers. India\'s present urban population of about 285 million people is about 12 times as much as at the beginning of the century.

This book is a wrap-up volume of a project which was initiated a decade ago to study on the problems of governance in the South Asia. On the basis of experience of five country-studies published as separate volumes on Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, the present Volume seeks to identify the major problems that are common to the region and puts forth a common agenda for good governance.

The end of the cold war and roll back of international communism together with the interrupted, but by no means aborted, Asian miracle and other modernising growth impulses have seen the emergence of a new geo-political and geo-economic architecture in Asia that is shaping what could become an Asian century. The Asian heartland and the Indian Ocean rimlands, that oscillated over history as the prime focus of political and economic power, are now reconnecting to create a new geo-strategic landscape of pulsating economic corridors and regional groupings.

This book edited by one of India\\\'s leading strategic experts is designed to initiate a wider public debate on the diverse instruments of national security and help develop a strategic culture and an institutionalized, integrated approach to national security. Chapters have been contributed by seven advisors to the National Security Council -- K.

This is a collection of narratives.  They are not fictional but based on real life incidents of which the author was a witness during his career as a civil servant in West Bengal and Delhi.
These are not memories of a civil servant in the conventional sense.  There is no postmortem of any government action.  There is no advice or exhortation to anyone in the government on matters relating to administration.

Laws relating to water in India have diverse origins, including ancient local customs and the British Common Law. The in-depth chapters in this compendium, written by luminaries from various fields, pertain to issues on water and proceed to a discussion of the legal question that arise. This volume thus straddles two domains, viz., (i) water-resource policy, management, conservation, conflict-resolution, etc., and (ii) water law. The book also briefly raises and explores the case for a constitutional declaration on water and an overarching national water law.

World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development. 2005. Co-director (with Francisco Ferreira). New York: Oxford University Press.

Canada and India are in many ways natural partners - two middle powers sharing a common political and legal tradition derived from the British Commonwealth, as well as a commitment to multiculturalism, democracy and international institutions. India's founding Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had a personal friendship with Canadian Prime Ministers Trudeau and Pearson.

Large dams initially conceived of as ‘temples of modern India’ in the Nehruvian era came under increasing criticism in the later years due to social and ecological concerns. This book is an in-depth study of possibly the most well-known multi-purpose river valley project in north India, the Bhakra-Nangal Project. One of the first scientific performance-analyses of a completed project in India, it examines how far the stated objectives of the project have been fulfilled.

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What explains the choices that India’s Supreme Court justices make? Traditional models of judicial decision-making emphasize either law (legal) or non-law (political, ideological, and institutional) factors as the determining influences on a judge. In Scaling Justice, the author argues that judges are “embedded negotiators” who craft judgments that avoid conflict with the political wings and preserve a “pro-citizen” reputation for the Court.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the links between intellectual property rights and sustainable development, two areas of the law that have until recently been largely considered in isolation. However, recent developments indicate that there are an increasing number of links between intellectual property protection and sustainable development which need to be addressed.

In the face of growing freshwater scarcity, most countries of the world are taking steps to conserve their water and foster its sustainable use. Water crises range from concerns of drinking water availability and/or quality, the degradation or contamination of freshwater, and the allocation of water to different users.

As the contours of a post-2012 climate regime begin to emerge, compliance issues will require increasing attention. This volume considers the questions that the trends in the climate negotiations raise for the regime's compliance system. It reviews the main features of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol, canvasses the literature on compliance theory and examines the broader experience with compliance mechanisms in other international environmental regimes.

Bureaucracy as a social and administrative institution has been at the centre of attention in capitalist, socialist as well as the developing countries. The consequences of bureaucratization in the three worlds are, however, significantly different. The dilemma of the developing countries is especially severe. In the absence of alternative instruments of implementation of the programmes of social and economic change, the state has increasingly depended upon the bureaucracy as its principal machinery.

The present work is the first full length empirical study which makes an attempt towards a comparative analysis of the role-perceptions, values, attitudes, orientation and behaviour of the field bureaucracy in India engaged in developmental and non developmental tasks in two different states.

The problem of poverty alleviation, which has remain intractable for nearly a hundreds years in India, is one that rightly bothers all thinking Indians. Deliverance From Hunger

Indian Agriculture

Fifty-three years have passed since Pakistan was born after partition of india; but the relationship between the two countries remains as adversarial as it was on the day of partition.

The non-agricultural sector of the Indian economy already accounts for two-third of the nation's GDP.  The processes of liberalisatoin which were initiated in the late 1970s, in which Prof. Marathe played an important role as Secretary, Industrial Development, Government of India, were given considerable boost by the Rajiv Gandhi Government in 1985.

Will Indian agriculture in year 2000 A.D. enter an era of prosperity or it will force unprecedented crises of scarcity, famine and squalor? The book examines this question dispassionately. It has a message of hope, based on potential created by newly generated technology. New technology and rapid expansion of irrigation will be the paths for agricultural development in the next two decades.

The genesis of this volume was in a collective initiative called South Asia Dialogues that, over a period of seven years from 1991 to 1997, brought together several leading members of the' civil society from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, with an aim to develop a South Asian community. This collection of essays is invaluable in giving voice to those who believe in the idea of South Asia, who think as South Asians and who share the vision of developing a regional civil society of South Asia.

Emergence of new nation-states, following liquidation of colonial rule after the Second World War has unleashed social forces which militate against centuries old traditions of subjugation and strive to build a social order based on freedom, equality and justice. This has meant a substantial change in the nature of relationships between society and the state.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has been the subject of over a dozen well-regarded biographies. Yet key aspects of the man still prove elusive. In this book, Rajmohan Gandhi, a grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and an acclaimed biographer and scholar, attempts to understand one of twentieth century's greatest leaders.

India has been the first among the developing countries to recognise the importance of population control and to launch a nation-wide programme of family planning. The programme has, however, seen many vicissitudes in its long journey since 1952 and by 1975, the nation realised that its achievements in this field had been less than satisfactory.

India’s dependence on water is critical owing to its large agricultural base, the water needs of its billion-plus population, and the recent economic growth trends. Despite the plethora of material on environmental law, legal scholarship on water law in particular has been negligible. This timely work pieces together key legislative instruments and policy documents to provide an overarching picture of the legal regime and regulations related to water in India.

Re-visioning Indian Cities: The Urban Renewal Mission probes the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) right from its incept

ABOUT THE BOOK As part of the CPR’s larger interest in population policy, this study seeks to examine the role participation can play in family planning and the manner in which such participation can be built in the official and non-official programme with a view to bringing down the national fertility rate.

What is the nature of violence in India? Is it a major problematique of the India civilization as Prof Rajni Kothari states? What are its sources? And what are the practical policy options to deal with them?

These are some of the questions Shri P R Rajgopal explores in the book from a practical policy angle rather than from a wider academic point of view. 

This study is the second  in the series  on violence  by Shri P R Rajgopal.  As a distinguished  police official,  Shri Rajgopal has seen  the various faces of violence at first hand In the present  study,  he has examined  the variety  of socio- economic  factors  which lead to violence  Policy makers  as well as lay citizens will find his practical insights useful in understanding  the phenomenon.

The strides made by India in agriculture since Independence are undoubtedly impressive.  To be self-sufficient in foodgrains over a short period of about thirty years  is no mean  achievement.  How- ever, India's population growth will not stabilise for quite some time. Further the need for both growth in production and employment in the agricultural sector will be unabated.

Biotechnology is receiving wide attention from policymakers, researchers, business houses, financial institutions and entrepreneurs. It is, however, still so much a part of laboratory research that its terminologies, techniques, processes and developments are still an enigma. And taming this technology  as a  business  enterprise  is proving complex and difficult.