Dr Baker deserves credit for remedying the neglect of the Central Provinces and Berar. It should be appreciated that it is not an easy task to write a monograph on political changes in a province where information about the social and economic history of the region is still rudimentary.
Thomas Metcalf’s scholarly work describes the process by which the taluqdars of Oudh were transformed from rulers of men into modern rentier landlords. He has a small chapter on the origin of the Rajput clans—how they were superimposed on the local cultivating community through conquest and inter-clan rivalry.
Professor Hugh Tinker has written a fine, and also a very timely biography. Andrews died in April 1940 in Calcutta. Nine years later, Allen and Unwin published his first and still the most definitive biography written by two devoted friends and admirers, Banarsidas Chaturvedi and Marjorie Sykes.
In Multiple Meanings of Money: How Women See Microfinance, the authors explore women’s own money management strategies, group dynamics and learning processes in groups. The book is an impact study using participatory research methodologies in an actor-oriented perspective framework that essentially results in conclusions based on group discussions, individual, household and community interviews.
Economist Paul Romer said: A crisis is a terrible thing to waste; Shekhar Gupta says: ‘This book (Surviving the Storm) is proof of that’; and I say: ‘I agree’.
It is alleged that government officials, urban planners and politicians cater to the interests of the elite and not to lower income groups in matters of urban development. Arif Hasan has considerable direct experience in urban architecture and planning, therefore, this book approaches the many challenges practitioners face in achieving the goal of executing participatory development projects in countries such as Pakistan from paper to practice.
Trade liberalization over the last few decades, (led, to a large extent, by a paradigm shift in China, India and South East Asian countries), has generated much optimism, although it is not an unmixed blessing for all.
The Second World War is a great divide in the history of 20th century Britain. It marks the transition of Britain as a world power to a period of post-imperial identity crisis. The 30 years since the war were difficult years of adjustment.
Arjan de Haans book is timely and comes at a time when the global financial crisis is pushing more people into unemployment and making governments in the developed and developing worlds slash budgets and shrink the states interventions in the social sectors.
South Asia is the second fastest growing region in the world after East Asia. This growth has reduced poverty rates but they have not fallen fast enough to reduce the total number of the poor. This is despite growth being complemented with various poverty alleviation programmes.
.the special case assumed by the classical theory happen not to be those of the economic society in which we actually live, with the result that its teaching is misleading and disastrous if we attempt to apply it to the facts of experience.
It is indeed one of the worst ironies of our time that the greater the urgency of the problem of climate change and its devastating consequences, the slower and weaker are the attempts to combat the problem.