{"title":"Constitution \u0026 Governance","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore books on India’s Constitution, democratic institutions, governance, public administration, political structures, and the evolution of the Indian state.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"11202-corruption-in-india-the-roadblock-to-national-prosperity","title":"Corruption in India - The Roadblock to National Prosperity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: N Vittal\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Academic Foundation\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2003\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 188\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8171882870\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe war against corruption is the mother of all wars. Through this  easy-to-read book, the author, a former Central Vigilance Commissioner, shares with us his thoughts, ideas, and experiences on this critical subject and his vision of a corruption-free India.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFighting corruption is like fighting a war: war is too dangerous a matter to be left to the generals. 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They cannot go to any public organization or office today and get the services which they are supposed to get without either paying bride or bringing influence by way of recommendations or references from VIPs, emphasizes N Vittal-a man who has observed, analyzed and above all, boldly crusaded against corruption, calling it by far the biggest challenge to the growth of our society and nation. His current outlook in corruption in India is that of a self-determined, sensitive patriot who by virtue of his position as the Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) had the opportunity of being able to get a panoramic view of the whole thing-only to conclude, that the problem of corruption\u003cbr\u003eCan Be Trackled.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHumorous and witty at places, throwing up hard facts in-between, the twelve chapters comprising this book openly discuss the serious aspects of corruption and the various interrelated issues. Readers would find very convincing, the simple and straight-forward arguments posed by the well informed author. Using examples from real life, quoting words of wisdom (shlokas), making references to great people and great books, N Vittal has done every bit to illustrate corruption in India as the roadblock to national prosperity. But his task does not end here. \u003cbr\u003eVittal’s writing is soaked in optimism. His worthwhile suggestions keep coming all the way and the final chapter virtually declared his proposed strategy to combat corruption most effectively.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book is meant to attract anybody and everybody who feels strongly about corruption and doesn’t mind reading a few pages written by someone as appropriate as Mr N Vittal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s Note\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorruption: A Fact of Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImpact of Corruption on Economic Development\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharacter of the People\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShould Corruption be Legalised?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eValue Based Leadership and Effective Governance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuties and Role of Educational Institutions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLegal Prevention and Judicial Control of Corruption\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMechanism for Accountability and Making Justice More Citizen-Friendly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorruption-Free Service’ to be a Fundamental Right\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorporate Frauds:\u003cbr\u003eOverview, Detection and Prevention\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVigilance in Public Sector Enterprises\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorruption-Free India:\u003cbr\u003eIt is a Far-fetched Idea?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Few Quotations\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"N Vittal \/ Academic Foundation \/ Paperback","offer_id":40776163492009,"sku":"11202","price":15.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/11202_9a84dbed-caff-46c6-87f5-8c6f61977a42.jpg?v=1625513906"},{"product_id":"11744-political-behavior-of-indian-state-governors","title":"Political Behavior of Indian State Governors","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Digambar Mishra\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Samskriti\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2003\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 126\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8187374195\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is the first major analytical work on the political behavior of the Indian state governors, and provides a unique exploration and behavioral analysis of the Indian governor through a case study  of the role played by fourteen governors who served post-independent Orissa. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe institution of the Indian state governorship has attracted the scholarly attention of Indian and international scholars.  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The author leads us on a journey of discovery spanning various phases of the evolution of the problem, from pre-independence Sri Lanka to the victory of the Kumaratunga government in 1994, and its subsequent failure to implement the much promised federal structure for the country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the last two decades, Sir Lanka has been plagued by an acute and intractable ethnic problem that has threatened to destroy the territorial integrity of the country.  The island's constitutional history has been dominated by the question of sharing political power between the majority Sinhalese and minority Tamils, and a fierce debate continues to rage over the appropriate model for devolution.  While one school of thought argues for federalism as a solution to the nation's ethnic crisis, the other argues against it believing it would lead to dismemberment of the country.  Neither of these arguments can be ignored and therein lies the cause of the intractable nature of the problem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow and why the Kumartunga government failed is the main topic of this book.  Partha Ghosh skillfully presents the various proposals of that government, including the draft constitution meant to convert the unitary state of Sri Lanka into a federal one.  He discusses the issues involved in the debate the deals with the devolution discourse, both at the political and the intellectual level.  The broad theoretical premises that govern the concept of devolution in an ethnically divided society are also examined in detail.  The author concludes with an analysis of the current situation - in particular the on-going peace talks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eObjective, incisive and sympathetic, this skilful examination of a complex situation will be of interest to students, scholars and journalists.  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They review 50 years of national politics showing the resilience of multiculturalism and emphasizing the normative content of elections in terms of what they contribute to the democratic development of India.  These chapters show that while multi-party based alliances involve political fusion they also encourage political fission as splinters groups emerge to become small parties and then claim a share in power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe ensuring 15 chapters examine these developments and processes at the state level. The contributors show that considerations of power rather than ideology have come to dominate coalition tactics.  While each state has its own particularities, they largely mirror that national scene in terms of their political configurations.  State-Society relations in Kashmir, the role of caste in Bihar, and the politics of secessionism in Punjab are some of the specific issues taken up.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors examine the role played by factors such as caste, ethnicity and religion as also the increasing communalization of politics. They show that leadership, rather than the institutionalization of parties, appears to be playing an increasingly important role in Indian politics while maintain that one-party dominance appears to be a thing of the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach chapter is rich in both empirical analysis and election data culled from primary sources.  Over all, the volume provides many insights into India's current political reality and will be of considerable interest to a wide readership.  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India is no exception in witnessing political consciousness of the ethnic identity of minority cultural groups and their conflict with the majority community dominating the national political order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe present struggle of sub-nationalities in various parts of India is assuming alarming proportions and is threatening the very existence of the Indian Democratic State. The visible minorities and other designated social groups should be better represented in the vast majority of the occupational categories and the decision making power at the government level. Despite forty-four years of independence, visible minorities have been paid little attention in India. Their representation is meager and their participation is almost negligible in the policy-making of the state affairs. They are suppressed and repressed by the dominance of majority culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is necessary to trace the genesis of the history of the Punjab crisis and to remind the basic postulates of the Punjab problem. 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For more than three months the whole energy of civil society and concerned citizens of this country was centered on trying to respond to the immeasurable pain and agony the victims have been reduced to, and on putting pressure on the State and Central government to bring an end to this violence and mindless killing of the minority Muslims, to provide relief and rehabilitation to the victims in whatever limited way possible and to register cases against the fascist and anti-human forces who are engaged in this communal orgy. The mayhem and murder that has been unleashed on the minority Muslim community ahs brought to center stage the fears that were remote about fascist forces.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRiots are not a new phenomenon to Gujarat. Most historical records would cite 1969 as the beginning of communal riots in Gujarat. From then on communal riots of varying intensity and dimension have occurred in 1985, 1986, 1992-1993 and 1999. There were also anti-reservation riots in 1981 and in 1985. But the ethnic cleansing that is going in Gujarat for more than three months is unprecedented in more than one way. This is not a riot as understood in the usual sense of two religious communities getting even with each other. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is genocide in the truest sense. This incident is also unprecedented because the brutality and cruelty was never witnessed in this country. 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It incisively pieces together the gradual decay in public administration in post-British India. The growing subservience of the bureaucracy to the political system unravels step by step. A self-serving elite is formed that is preoccupied with its vested interests. The entire administration, its infrastructure and its development programmes become the terrain for serving the personal and political interests of the neta and babu. The voice of the common man in India goes unheard. The poor continue to remain in poverty. The humour and crispness of the narrative barely conceal this underlying  theme which is the central focus of the book – it is not a memoir, nor gossip chatter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTSR based his book on his rich repertoire of experience and a prodigious memory for detail. The book documents, through a personal narrative, forty years of politics and bureaucracy. 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They are the one who dictate to CBI whether to investigate or not and how to investigate. They only decide on prosecution or withdrawal and that too under the cover of public interest. The accused thus themselves assume the role of investigator, the prosecutor and even the judge. Subservient to this dangerous mindset, the investigative and enforcement agencies procure and collect the evidences to reinforce the pre-determined conclusions. The shade of Government makes no difference.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author as a Joint Director in the CBI piloted the investigations of many important cases including the famous Jain Hawala Case. It was a God-sent opportunity for the CBI to clean the dirty stables of Indian politics and administration as the case had necessary potential as also the mandate of the Supreme Court to investigate the high and mighty. 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The author warned the director in black and white that he was scuttling the scam and betraying the nation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe relentless fight of the author for truth and transparency in the CBI brought him in sharp confrontation with Director Joginder Singh, who defined the law for every individual differently and applied the tools of discipline to force the desired results out of the investigators. The author raised these tricky questions in the CBI conference with the then Prime Minister, Deve Gowda. Gowda listened to the author, but he rediculed him and all the agencies who claimed to work against corruption. No wonder, the author was jettisoned not only out of the CBI, but from the Government of India itself, as if the biggest threat to Government emanated from the truth that he advocated. 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The sphere of the market on the one hand, and the non-governmental sector on the other, are identified by the contributors as critical ingredients in the alternative conceptualizations of governance that have begun to inform the discourse on development.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first part of the volume addresses the current discourse on governance, development, and poverty reduction and the emergence of alternative models of governance in India such as the non-governmental sector and joint partnerships between community and state.  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Minority discourse at the national and international level is a wide discourse but the present study concentrates mainly on constitutional cultural and educational Rights of Minorities in India besides conceptual articulations of minority rights in general.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBesides an elaborate Exodium the book is divided in six chapters.  In the first chapter concepts of minority, minority formation and minority rights have been focused.  Second chapter analyses minority rights under international law.  Constitutional vision and minority forms the corpus of the third chapter.  Last two chapters mainly concentrate on judicial response to various aspects of cultural and educational rights of the minorities in India.  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Pluralism and Federalism now appear as the two essential principles for organizing heterogeneous societies into a viable pattern of political sharing of power, by reconciling the twin process of ‘political unification’, and ‘social diversity’; of ‘commonality’ for certain purposes and specificities for others.  In its praxis, federalism builds and sustains the ‘unity of polity’ and simultaneously preserves and promotes the ‘plurality of society’.  It is from this perspective, and ideological premises of ‘Federal nation, participatory democracy, secularism and social justice’ that we should re-examine our federal polity and plural society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book broadly reflects upon the following macro rubrics of Indian Federalism-quest for a new federal identity, and recasting center-state relations in order to build a more equipoised and cooperative federal polity; social-cultural pluralism and their accommodation and harmonization within federal polity and society.  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Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who had never used the term in his pre-independence writing or speeches, simply picked up a prestigious word from the Western political parlance and made it mean the opposite of what it meant in the West. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003emore than obvious in due course. In pre-indepenpendence India, the Muslim minority had exercised a veto on who was to be hailed as nationalist and who was to be denounced as Hindu communalist. Now the same minority reacquired the same veto on who was to be applauded as secularist and who was to be hounded out as communalist. In short, the term secularism in the post-independence period ahs been and remains no more than a euphemism for Hindu-baiting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe world India’s instead of Indian has been sued in the title of this book because there is nothing Indian about Nehruvian Secularism. In fact, the term secularism in its original Western sense had remained unknown to Indian political parlance because Indians had never envisaged or experienced a theocratic dispensation before the advent of Islam and its state apparatus in this country. Even today, traditional Indian scholars do not understand what Theocracy means, and how Secularism in the Western sense stands opposed to it. And this secularism has not been defined as Nehruvian because it is shared in common by all political parties including the Bharatiya Janata party.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHerculean efforts have been made and are being made by the apologists of Christianity and Islam in modern times, to salvage the central figures and fundamental doctrines of these creeds from the blood-soaked histories they have enacted for many years in many parts of the word. The apologists have been trying to prove that the inhuman atrocities with which these histories are brimful, have nothing to do with their sacred scriptures and can be explained more satisfactorily in terms of the human infirmities of persons or peoples who committed the atrocities. In post-independence India, this Christian and Islamic Apologetics has achieved remarkable success, so much so that while these creeds pass as advocates of human brotherhood, social justice, human rights, freedom, equality, peace, and progress, their doctrines and doing s have been projected to Hinduism and Hindu history by  motley crowd of secularists spawned by Socialism, Communism, Gandhism, Nehruism, Ambedkarism, etc. Shri Sharma has nailed the lies by quoting chapter and verse from the sacred scriptures of Christianity and Islam.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePolitical developments in India in recent years indicate that a National Vision is emerging in the Hindu intelligentia at large. The pace of this emergence is slow because old slogans continue to dominate the media and the academia. It will take some time for these slogans to get exhausted. The world at large is realizing the danger which Islamic terrorism poses to peace and progress, and we too will have to face the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is Dharma?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSecularism: Perversion of Meaning\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChallenge of Islam and Hindu Response\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix 1: The Emerging National Vision\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix 2: Plea for Study of Islamic Polity in India’s Universities\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix 3: Scriptural Sanctions for the Behaviour Pattern of the followers of Biblical or Prophetic Monotheism\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Sita Ram Goel \/ Voice of India \/ Paperback","offer_id":40782881095849,"sku":"12849","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/12849.jpg?v=1625495125"},{"product_id":"19536-nehru-s-thoughts-on-national-topics","title":"Nehru’s Thoughts on National Topics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: N N Chatterjee\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Publications Division\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2002\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 77\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8123010753\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are some random selections from the thought-provoking speeches of the first Prime Minister and builder of modern India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe present compilation is an effort to introduce in a handy form, especially to the younger generation, the treasure-thoughts of the legendary Prime Minister.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCitizenship consists in the service of the country. We must prevail on the evil-doers to stop their activities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeace cannot be purchased by compromise with evil or by surrender to it. 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Its authors were specially commissioned by UNESCO to assemble eighty of the most pressing questions about democracy in the world today, and to provide clear and authoritative answers to them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is a masterpiece of succinct exposition, which will be of value to all those who to know more about democratic theory and practice, whether as students, interested citizens, political activists or employees in the public service; and whether they live in established or developing democracies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe questions are systematically arranged in six sections: basic concepts and principles: free and fair elections; open and accountable government; individual rights and their deference; democratic or civil society; the future of democracy. The book forms an outstanding introduction to what is, perhaps, the most important concept in politics. 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The crisis has further precipitated at the turn of the century.  To put it in simple words, the crux of the matter is how to formulate an agenda for governance and how to obtain a political mandate to govern.  As a result, a series of new issues have come to the surface since the beginning of nineties. Among these the issue of reservations to women and minorities, expansion and strengthening of the federal structure and promotion of panchayati raj institutions at the grassroots level, liberalization and globalization are the prominent.  Most political parties have adopted an ambivalent position on these issues.  Shifting of position is also frequent among the political parties.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn other words, there is no clarity or consistency on the political agenda among the political parties.  The voter, under the circumstances, has increasingly come to doubt the sincerity of the political parties.  They are looking for alternatives.  In sharp contrast voluntary organization and NGOs have carved a role of themselves by focusing issues concerning the common people and bringing them out in the form of peoples' Manifestos.  Political parties are increasingly finding it difficult to ignore such initiatives.  However, it is increasingly becoming clear that people's manifestos are posing a challenge to the positions of political parties on various issues by exposing their hidden agendas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 1: THE FRAMEWORK\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eReview of Literature\u003cbr\u003eProcess of Policy Formation\u003cbr\u003eThe Environment\u003cbr\u003eUnderstanding the Political Process\u003cbr\u003eAn Alternative: Voluntary and NGO Initiative\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 2 : PARTY PERSPECTIVE AND AGENDA OF THE 90s\u003cbr\u003eThe Importance of Manifestos\u003cbr\u003eThe approach of the Manifestos\u003cbr\u003ePerception of Nineties in the Manifestos\u003cbr\u003eSocial Justice\u003cbr\u003eThe Issues of Center-State Relations\u003cbr\u003ePanchayati Raj and Power to the People\u003cbr\u003eThe Issue of Communalism\u003cbr\u003eEconomy and Economic Growth\u003cbr\u003eOther Issues\u003cbr\u003eIssues Related to Basic Needs\u003cbr\u003eMinorities\u003cbr\u003eLand Reforms\u003cbr\u003eAgriculture\u003cbr\u003eEducation\u003cbr\u003eIndustrial Policy\u003cbr\u003eLabor Policy\u003cbr\u003eEmployment\u003cbr\u003eEconomy\u003cbr\u003eFederalism\u003cbr\u003eNational Unity\u003cbr\u003eForeign Policy\u003cbr\u003eWomen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 3 : VOLUNTARY PERSPECTIVES AND PEOPLES’ AGENDA\u003cbr\u003eVoluntary Perspective\u003cbr\u003eVoluntary Agencies and Interest Articulation\u003cbr\u003eContent Analysis\u003cbr\u003eIssues of Foreign Debt and Party Position\u003cbr\u003eLocal and Specific Issues\u003cbr\u003eIssue of Communalism\u003cbr\u003eSocial Issues\u003cbr\u003eWithdrawal of the State\u003cbr\u003eDecentralized Democracy and Devaluation of Power\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4\u003cbr\u003eAn Overview\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eAppendices\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Edward Mathias \/ Indian Social Institute \/ Paperback","offer_id":40783854633129,"sku":"8626","price":8.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/8626.jpg?v=1625503312"},{"product_id":"12693-civil-society-and-democracy","title":"Civil Society and Democracy","description":"\u003cb\u003e Shipping Note: This item usually arrives at your doorstep in 10-15 days\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Carolyn M Elliott\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2003\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 508\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0195661966\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Themes in Politics series presents essays on important issues in the study of political science and Indian politics. Each volume in the series brings together the most significant articles and debates on an issue, and contains a substantive introduction and bibliography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe concept of civil society has today captured the imagination of a wide global community. Its proponents find in the idea benefits such as empowering citizens for problem solving, counter-balancing the state, preserving individual privacy, and deepening people's participation in government to increase effectiveness and improve governance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume discusses the idea of civil society and its relationship with democracy and governance in India. It explores how the concept of civil society developed in the western tradition of political thought, and compares India's experience with those of China, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. The volume offers a unique combination of analysis by political theorists with empirical studies in comparative politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe readings discuss modes of civil society and its articulation in the public sphere. They analyse the relationship of civil society to liberalism, pluralism, and ideas of nationhood in multicultural societies, cultural attribute and entrenched ideals, as also the institutional framework in which the idea operates. 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Or Within?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCivil Society\u003cbr\u003eCultural Possibility of a Modern Ideal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCivil Society and Its Avtars\u003cbr\u003eWhat Happened to Freedom and Democracy?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCivil Society and its institutions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCivil Society or the State\u003cbr\u003eWhat Happened to Citizenship?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Civil and the Political in Civil Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEMPIRICAL INVESTIGATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarket reforms and the Emergent constellation of Civil Society in China\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCivil Society and other Political Possibilities in Southeast Asia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCivil Society and Democratization in Comparative Perspective\u003cbr\u003eLatin America and the Middle East\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCivil Society and Ideological Contestation in India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Coffee House and the Ashram\u003cbr\u003eGandhi, Civil Society, and Public Spheres\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSocial Capital, Civil Society, and Degrees of Democracy in India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEthnic Conflict and Civil Society\u003cbr\u003eIndia and Beyond\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSubject Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Carolyn M Elliott \/ Oxford University Press \/ Hardcover","offer_id":40789017133225,"sku":"12693","price":52.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/12693.jpg?v=1625567761"},{"product_id":"8320-courts-and-their-judgments","title":"Courts and their Judgments","description":"\u003cb\u003e Shipping Note: This item usually arrives at your doorstep in 10-15 days\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Arun Shourie\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Rupa\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2001\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 454\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8171675573\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this Powerful and thought-provoking book Arun Shourie examines the premises, prerequisites and consequences related to Courts in India and their judgments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile examining the premises, prerequisites and consequences of Courts and their judgments, Arun Shourie raises some pertinent queries; Do judges merely enforce and interpret the law? Have they stretched the law and constitution too far?  What are the prerequisites that judges need to ensure before they take on the work? \u003cbr\u003eHow is that in one judgment a court declares that it is the right of ministers to decide how far and in what direction a criminal investigation shall be carried, and in another the same court and indeed the same judge decides to as good as monitor an investigation?\u003cbr\u003eWhat happens when a weak political class throws away an instrument the country desperately needs for combating terrorism?\u003cbr\u003eHow the court acquiesces so easily when the electoral law is overturned, when it is blatantly overturned to protect a person convicted of malpractices?\u003cbr\u003eWhat happens to the economy when the interest alone on a project between the stay granted by the court and its final judgment costs government Rs. 3900 crore?\u003cbr\u003eWhy is it that the institutions that are set up to do what the courts are routinely unable to do, soon end up being just the clones of the courts they were intended to substitute?\u003cbr\u003eThis book by Shourie provides searing answers, evidence, dissection of judgments on these and other related issues.\u003cbr\u003eA must for our times, a must for strengthening India.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE SETTING\u003cbr\u003e1.  An Annual Lecture\u003cbr\u003e2.  Our Protectors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBRINGING ABOUT A CHANGE\u003cbr\u003e3.  When an institution Takes on the Works of Others\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSPREDING OUT\u003cbr\u003e4.  The \"State of India\"\u003cbr\u003e5.  A Meta-consequence\u003cbr\u003e6.  From \"Life\" to \"Life with Dignity\" to the Pay of Imams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSOME CONSEQUENCES\u003cbr\u003e7.  \"The Resultant Legal Chaos\"\u003cbr\u003e8.  The Cascading Effect\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTIME AND PLACE\u003cbr\u003e9.  Going Alone\u003cbr\u003e10.  Shutting Ones Eyes\u003cbr\u003e11.  Some Rules of Thumb\u003cbr\u003e12.  Alert Enough to get what we need\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE GOVERNMENT AS A LITIGANT\u003cbr\u003e13.  Some Ways to Discipline Staff\u003cbr\u003e14.  The Fate of Remedies\u003cbr\u003e15.  \"Before Parting, we place on Records Our Deep Anguish\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE STANDARDS WE NEED, THE ONES BY WHICH WE ARE JUDGED\u003cbr\u003e16.  Activism, an its Prerequisites\u003cbr\u003e17.  A Premise We Cannot Afford\u003cbr\u003e18.  We Can't Save the Country on a Part-Time Basis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINDICES\u003cbr\u003e19.  Cases Cited\u003cbr\u003e20.  Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Arun Shourie \/ Rupa \/ Hardcover","offer_id":40789724102825,"sku":"8320","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/8320.jpg?v=1625571960"}],"url":"https:\/\/indiaclub.com\/de\/collections\/constitution-governance.oembed?page=2","provider":"The India Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}