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A GREAT BURST OF GLOBALIZATION brought the 20th century to a close,creating upheaval in the world economy from roughly 1995 to 2008. Andnow, with the new century barely commenced, a second upheaval is in theoffing following the severe financial crisis that plunged the globaleconomy into recession in 2008-09. The first upheaval witnessed amassive migration of manufacturing and certain business services thattransformed Asia into the industrial heartland of the world. The secondupheaval will likely consolidate Asia's industrial preeminence andcould result in a concentration of industrial activities in the twomost populous and fastest growing Asian economies - China andIndia.

As the two Asian giants become the industrial equals of the UnitedStates, Germany, and Japan, the ramifications will affect trade andgrowth worldwide, the future of development in China and India, andindustrialization throughout Asia. Changing the Industrial Geography inAsia: The Impact of China and India examines these developments,focusing specifically on China and India. Its analysis and conclusionswill be of particular interest to policy makers and academics, as wellas anyone with an interest in the impacts of China and India onAsia's industrial activities.

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Discusses the geography, history, people, and culture of this multi-faceted country. ... Read more

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Globalization, Hindutva and the Mandal agitation have transformed our social landscape over the last two decades and confronted us with new problems and possibilities.This book seeks to critically re-examine what popular common sense tells us about these and contemporary concerns.Why are we so eager to claim modernity in same contexts and so anxious to disown it in others?How does the economy come to rival religion and history as a source of national identity?Where does the moral legitimacy of the middle class come from?What makes caste such a controversial criterion for public policy?Has globalization made regions irrelevant?These are some of the questions explored in this book. ... Read more

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Ideal for today's young investigative reader, each A True Book includes lively sidebars, a glossary and index, plus a comprehensive "To Find Out More" section listing books, organizations, and Internet sites. A staple of library collections since the 1950s, the new A True Book series is the definitive nonfiction series for elementary school readers. ... Read more

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An excellent book on India
Purchased this for a 5 year old. She absolutely loved the bright, real-life pictures in the book. My son who is 3 also loves this book especially the page with the Royal Bengal tiger. The kids have learnt a lot about India from this book. This is a good India exposure book for kids. ... Read more

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Combining historical analysis with his own fieldwork, Dr. Bhardwaj not only established the importance of the institution of pilgrimage in Indian history and the persistence of similar distribution patterns of sacred places over long periods, but also furnished the normative background for contemporary practices. He examines both the historical and the contemporary patterns of pilgrimage at various levels - pan-Hindu, supra-egional, sub-regional and local. ... Read more

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This collection of original essays by scholars of geography from India, Western Europe, and the USA provides important insights into the way contemporary geographers are engaging with India. The earlier narrow colonial focus that saw India as a country of resources and ‘peoples’ (tribes and castes) has now been discarded for a broader view located in mainstream intellectual frameworks and informed by a public policy perspective. This volume highlights how contemporary geographers see and write on topics such as the state, nation, community, environment, and division of labor, while keeping in mind issues of spatiality and territoriality.

Among the many current issues dealt with are:

The diverse and often imaginative ways in which Hindu nationalist organizations have sought to reinvent India as Hindustan. Also discussed are the militant cartographies employed by them, with reference to Ayodhya and Bhuj
A fresh understanding of the ongoing dispute in Kashmir through the lens of geopolitics
India’s emerging geographies of work in the context of global commodity chains
Women’s labor market opportunities and empowerment in the framework of globalization
The importance of the concept of home and domestic space for forging nationalist policies in the context of Anglo-Indian women in India before and after 1947
The production of urban space and urban politics, with corresponding ideas about governance, citizenship, and participation
The politics and self-understanding of the rural and urban poor in the face of economic liberalization

Truly inter-disciplinary in its approach, this volume vividly captures the changing nature of place-making in contemporary South Asia. It will be of interest to students and scholars of geography, history, development studies, and political science. ... Read more

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Essays by specialists on Indian cities, geography, changing role of groups and women, health. major review of change in Indian society and urban change ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1871 edition by Trübner and Co., London. No more published: only one volume was written ... Read more

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Terrible maps
I don't own this edition but I have an ebook of the original that this is a facsimile of. Basically it's the geography of india compared to the descriptions of Arrian and Ptolemy and a Chinese explorer. That part is fantastic but the maps are absolutely incomprehensible. There are bold lines going every which way (possible routes of alexander?), barely legible names that may be towns, rivers, mountains, etc. The author tried to put too much information into each map. Perhaps if one could find a good atlas this book could be used in conjunction with it. However, I'm still looking for a good historical atlas of india in the classical era. If anyone knows of one, please let me know. ... Read more

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A definitive account of the geography of industrialization in India. The primary goal is to analyse the consequences of specific policies, and show how policy frameworks need to be changed to achieve a more balanced, equitable, and sustainable industrial growth. ... Read more

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Village Life in India introduces students to the physical and social contrasts of India, the area of the Nilgiri Hills, and the villages of Chembakolli and Kanjikolly. It also examines the changes in the traditional lifestyle of the Adivasi peoples, their political and social rights, and the physical conditions of the area. ... Read more

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This CD-Rom produced by Actionaid, is an educational resource which complements the Village Life in India unit of the Cambridge Primary Geography materials. It can also stand alone or support other study materials on India. It is ideal for the teaching of a distant locality as required by key stage 2 of the geography national curriculum. The disk is divided into nine sections: some focus on the Nilgiri Hills in southern India, others place this locality in its wider Indian context. All sections allow direct comparison between different localities including the pupils' home area. Village Life in India CD-Rom provides interactive resources including QuickTime video, still images, maps, statistics, diagrams and exercises, most accompanied by a soundtrack of authentic Indian music. The disk is a 3-platform hybrid which enables it to be used on the three drives normally available in primary schools: Acorn, AppleMac and PC. ... Read more

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Tourism to and within India has undergone some important changes in recent years seen by the rising numbers of international tourists and increase in domestic tourism. This has led to the redevelopment and rebranding of many of its destinations as the Indian government has begun to recognise the potential importance of tourism to the Indian economy and has begun to invest in tourism infrastructure. It is also recognised that as its economy continues to grow at a rapid rate, India will also become one of the most important countries in terms of future outbound tourism.

Tourism and India is the first book to specifically focus on and fully analyze the issues facing contemporary India both as a destination and a potential source of tourists. The book analyses previous research and applies critical theory to key aspects of tourism in this region and supports this with a wide range of examples to illustrate the key conceptual points. As such the book examines aspects of tourism in India including tourism governance, cultural tourism, heritage tourism, nature-based tourism from the supply side and international tourism, domestic tourism, outbound tourism and the Indian Diaspora from the demand side.

This timely book includes original research to offer insights into India’s future development in terms of tourism. It will be of interest to students, researchers and academics in the areas of Tourism, Geography and related disciplines.

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Until the 1970s gender had been invisible in analyses of social space and place in the androcentric discipline of geography. While recent contributions to feminist geography have challenged this, in India the engagement of geographers with gender, by being conservative in its choice of focus and orthodox in methodology, has been unable to destabilise the established disciplinary order.

However, with younger scholars becoming increasingly interested in studying gender in geography, novel and innovative methods that include combinations of quantitative and qualitative analyses, visual sources and in-depth case studies are being tried out and accepted in geography despite its masculine legacy.

This pioneering study brings together Indian geographers’ contributions to understanding gender, and through them, seeks to enrich the discipline of geography. It engages with the recent ‘spatial turn’ in the social sciences, which has reclaimed the explanatory power of space and place in social theory that had been nearly lost to deconstructive postmodernist scholarship. The volume draws entirely from the Indian scholarship, showcasing contextualised knowledge production, but hopes to initiate a a dialogue with scholars elsewhere working with feminist methodologies.