Avinash Kumar Jha (14 results)

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Soft cover. Condition: New. Notions of work and Employment in official data systems undermine women s work. While the gender gap in paid work has narrowed only slightly in developed countries, it has increased in emerging economies such as India. Labouring women explores these unfavourable trends and analyses the current position and condition of women s work. It argues that despite the supposed development, policy changes and talk of equality, experiences of labouring women show that their challenges have multiplied, both at work and at home, with longer working hours and greater reliance on Unpaid work.…

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Contents Vol I Life and Philosophy of Gandhi Preface 1 Introduction Gandhian autonomy 2 Gandhi?s critique of modernity 3 Gandhi?s politics 4 Gandhi in the twenty first century 5 Gandhi on religion in public life 6 Gandhian thought vis-a-vis indigenous ideology 7 Gandhian prospective paradigm for culture 8 The legacy of Gandhi Bibliography Index Vol II The Legacy of Nehru Preface 1 Introduction 2 Motilal Nehru 3 Jawaharlal Nehru 4 Comes of age Nehru 4 Indira Gandhi 5 The new civilization 6 Kamala Nehru 7 Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit 8 Indira Gandhi 9 Indira Gandhi?s political personality 10 Feroze Gandhi 11 Sanjay Gandhi 12 Maneka Gandhi 13 Rajiv Gandhi 14 Sonia Gandhi 15 Priyanka Gandhi 16 Rahul Gandhi 17 Varun Gandhi Bibliography IndexMohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the preeminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement He pioneered Satyagraha resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience a philosophy firmly founded upon ahimsa or total nonviolence which helped India to gain independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the worldJawaharlal Nehru was an Indian statesman who was the first prime minister of India from 1947 until 1964 One of the leading figures in the Indian independence movement Nehru was elected by the Congress party to assume office as independent India?s first Prime Minister and re-elected when the Congress Party won India?s first general election in 1952 The Nehru Gandhi family is an Indian political family which has been dominant in the Indian National Congress for most of India?s history since independence Three members of the family have been Prime Minister of India two of whom have been assassinated A fourth member of the family have been Prime Minister of India two of whom have been assassinated A fourth member of the family Sonia Gandhi is currently Congress President While Rahul Gandhi the youngest member of the family is active in politics.…

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Contents Vol I Preface 2 Introduction 2 Poetry and philosophy 3 The philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore 4 Rabindranath Tagore as reformer 5 The distinctiveness of Rabindra Nath Tagore?s view on Indian renaissance 6 Indian literature through the ages 7 The western imperialistic challenge Rabindra Nath Tgore Aurobindo Tilak and Gokhale Bibliography IndexVol II Preface 1 Tagore and nationalism 2 East and west WB Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore 3 The letters between Tagore and Noguchi 4 Tagore as preceptor 5 Krishna Chandra Bhattacharyya and contemporary philosophy in India 6 Outlook towards women influence of Indian renaissance 7 Violence of non-violence interpretations by Rabindra Nath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi 8 The revolutionary movement Tagore and Aurobidno Bibliography IndexRabindranath Tagore was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore a leader of the Brahmo Samaj educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling he did not finish his studies there He died in 1941 at the age of eighty is a towering figure in the millennium old literature of Bengal Anyone who becomes familiar with this large and flourishing tradition will be impressed by the power of Tagore?s presence in Bangladesh and in India His poetry as well as his novels short stories and essays are very widely read and the songs he composed reverberate around the eastern part of India and throughoutIn contrast in the rest of the world especially in Europe and America the excitement that Tagore?s writings created in the early years of the twentieth century has largely vanished The contrast between Tagore?s commanding presence in Bengali literature and culture and his near total eclipse in the rest of the world is perhaps less interesting than the distinction between the view of Tagore as a deeply relevant and many sided contemporary thinker in Bangladesh and India and his image in the west as a repetitive and remote spiritualist 528 pp.…