In the spring and early summer of last year, British newspapers and television repeatedly covered the subject of the recruitment of mercenaries in the United Kingdom; but even if you were a regular reader or viewer, you could not always be certain of just what slant was being given to the subject.
India’s tentative economic miracle faces many hurdles, but one of the chief difficulties is sustaining the political impetus for reform.
This book contains a number of papers, mostly in the field of public finance, written by Professor Nanjundappa during the years 1961-1968. Except for two articles on ‘Wages, Prices and Employment’ and ‘Restrictive Trade Practices and Public Policy’, the articles included in the volume deal with questions…
More than a century of Indian cricket history is comprehended in this succinct work, Indian Cricket. The book deals with first-class cricket in India and also touches on the tours by Indian teams abroad and by foreign teams in India.
Book selection represents the sphere of librarianship which distinguishes the profession from many other occupations. There has been a controversy in the past whether the process of book selection is an ‘art’ or ‘science’.
When one opens a volume like this with an impressive array of contributors, one does so with a certain expectation. But this volume disappoints totally. B.R. Nanda’s introductory article sets a tone for the rest of the book. It is an uninspired piece of writing and only summarizes what the other eleven articles have to say.