First published in 1970, the book has been revised and updated to cover developments up to the first year of the Janata government to serve as a textbook for studying the determinants, institutions, and processes involved in foreign policy making.
International migration is not a new phenomenon for the globetrotting Indians who today constitute more than twenty-five millions living either permanently or temporarily in different countries around the world.
The articles in this book are written by various authors who deal with numerous aspects of the Government National Adult Education Programme of 1978. The book reads as though a group of people are discussing the means of transporting a doctor, some suggest that the doctor should be brought by road or by air and yet others are talking of the financial implications.
In the classical Marshallian framework, citizenship was visualized in terms of a contradictory relation to capitalism. The three components of citizenship, under the scheme Marshall espoused, referring to civil, political and social, were coterminous with the expansion of the right to free speech, right to participation and economic welfare.
There is a common belief that books published by government departments are not worthy of serious evaluation because of the lackadaisical treatment they generally receive from their publishers. But exceptions are there and this book under review happens to be one.
More so than most other Indian states, Gujarat appears enigmatic to many observers. Its most famous son is Mohandas Gandhi, but he is also a uniquely despised figure in much of middle class Gujarati society at home and abroad.