Col. Harjeet Singh
The South Asia Defence and Strategic Yearbook has been an important yearly publication highlighting the main events that have happened in the larger South Asian region.
Reviewed by: Pankaj Kumar Jha
Anjali Ghosh, Tridib Chakraborti, Anindyo Jyoti Majumdar and Shibashis Chatterjee
The book under review is a massive sweep on the contours of India’s continuously evolving foreign and economic policy challenges that are in tune with the changing times. The volume contains as many as nineteen chapters by scholars from India’s premier universities and think tanks covering many leading countries and regions with which India’s foreign policy has remained significant. The contributors are leading.
Reviewed by: Rajaram Panda
T.B. Subba, A.C. Sinha, G.S. Nepal, D.R. Nepal
This volume edited by T.B. Subba et.al. is a welcome addition to the growing body of literature on Northeast-related studies and enriches our knowledge of Christianity in India. For long, Northeast India, known as the region of ‘seven sisters’ comprising the states of Arunachal, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura and now also Sikkim, did not receive adequate scholarly attention.
Reviewed by: Vincent Kumaradoss
Partha Ray
The present global economic crisis has generated considerable interest in the role of central banks in regulating the behaviour of commercial banks. Though the Indian story in this regard is seen in positive terms, we do not clearly know for certain as to what channels the monetary policy actions are transmitted to the real economy.
Reviewed by: D. Narasimha Reddy
Duncan Green
Do ‘active citizens’ and ‘effective states’ change the world? According to the sub-title of the book From Poverty to Power by Duncan Green they do. Yet, as the author himself recognizes there is ‘good’ change and ‘bad’ change. What Green means by good change is change that helps ‘build a secure…
Reviewed by: Ajit Menon
J. Krishnamurti
Did India have economists before 1947? If so, how many? Who were they? What did they do? Until J. Krishnamurty decided to find out, these questions had not been asked in a any serious manner.
Reviewed by: T.C.A. Srinivasa Raghavan