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PREFACE The world is now ready to enter a second wave of Coronavirus and several lockdowns. What a year ago seemed too far and like a fairytale, is now a reality and a nightmare all over the world. On March 11, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Coronavirus disease (a.k.a Covid- 19) a pandemic as it spread in a short time all over the world. The Coronavirus disease has already affected life in many countries. In the long term, it is predicted that it will bring about changes that are quite likely to be permanent. Along with the measures taken on prevention and control of the spread of the outbreak; international supply chains, supply- demand balance, consumer and producer ...
This interdisciplinary volume portrays India’s removal of Article 370 and of Jammu and Kashmir's special status in August 2019 as an effort to stop the suffering of its highly diverse people. While the state had been divided between the only two successor nations allowed in 1947, local people were subjected to prolonged violence by several competing external and internal stakeholders. Though the bold step of August 2019 signified acceptance by both India and Pakistan of the completion of the partition of 1947, evidence of continuing discontent and latent adherence to continuing dreams of freedom (Azadi) indicates that the current arrangement needs to be better and more widely understood as...
This book Understanding Indian Politics is culmination of a desire to make the working of Indian Constitution easier for students to grasp. The book is written in a fashion to create an appetite for more information about Indian government and politics. There is no doubt in the statement that the study of the working of the Indian Constitution is a gateway to understand politics in India. Written in a lively and engaging style, the book provides a clear and highly accessible introduction to the Constitution of India, its functioning and various issues that confront its application. Each chapter discusses a cluster of interrelated terms and concepts. The book is designed systematically to build understanding not only of the politics of India but also of the Indian Constitution and different issues that emerged in its working.
This book discusses the need for a paradigm shift from Islamic economics universe of discourse to Iqtisād, a socio-economic system that is entirely independent from other economic doctrines and systems of thought. It provides an overview of critiques of the science and dogma of mainstream, orthodox, neoclassical, or simply Economics, with its axioms of rationality, scarcity, and unlimited wants. There is also a critical analysis of Islamic economics, and its failures to set its own policy agenda and development objectives. Our contention in this book is that Iqtisād--the Qur’an’s vision of how the economy is to be arranged—provides such a paradigm with a radically different philosoph...
This Book Explains Economic And Political Decision-Making During The 1971-77 Period Of Pakistan`S History, When The Country`S Politiical Scene Was Dominated By One Individual; Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. The Author Argues That, Unlike His Predecessors, Bhutto`S Actions Were Motivatedd By The Interests Of The Groups Prominent. Without Dustjacket. Spine Slightly Nicked At The Bottom.
This report documents the dynamics of violence against women in South Asia across the life cycle, from early childhood to old age. It explores the different types of violence that women may face throughout their lives, as well as the associated perpetrators (male and female), risk and protective factors for both victims and perpetrators, and interventions to address violence across all life cycle stages. The report also analyzes the societal factors that drive the primarily male — but also female — perpetrators to commit violence against women in the region. For each stage and type of violence, the report critically reviews existing research from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, M...