Globalisation Development and Culture : Essays in Honour of Professor S.P. Nagendra

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Published by Rawat Publications, 2012

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Contents: Introduction. 1. A Nasr sentence: some comments/A.K. Saran. 2. The administrative state and the home politics/Raghuveer Singh. 3. Man's yearning for fulfillment in life: the Hindu traditional view/Ramesh Chandra Tiwari. 4. Sociology and social revolution in India: challenges and responses/Yogendra Singh. 5. Sociological theories and their empirical bases/Brij Raj Chauhan. 6. Socio-cultural dimensions of development/Yogesh Atal. 7. Indian Diaspora: some reflections/C. Lakshmanna. 8. Corporate social responsibility in the European Union and East Asia/Gyorgy Szell. 9. Modernity and culture: some reflections/Jugendra Sahai. 10. Research education and training in social sciences and humanities: some issues and policy concerns/Rajeshwar Prasad. 11. Evolution of caste system/B.D. Tripathi. 12. Dimensions of human development: emerging concerns/S.P. Srivastava. 13. Globalisation and Gandhian economic thought/Bindeshwar Pathak. 14. Experiments in workers participation for effective industrial Democracy: an analysis/R.C. Sarikwal. 15. Globalisation, cultural change and the issue of global uniformity/P.N. Pandey. 16. Culture of hierarchy and power: local socio-historical perspectives Indian case study/D. Sundaram. 17. American social theory and Indian social reality: the case of reference group theory/Jagdish Kumar Pundir. 18. Secularism in theory and practice: a derivative discourse in Indian context/Ashok Kaul and Anita Mattoo. Index. The book presents a panoramic view of current sociological understanding of the emergent social reality. It is a collection of eighteen essays, and can be put into four major steams of thought. In fact, such kind of a discourse cannot have a common theme leading to logical conclusions. Though most of the contributors have concentrated their attention on social development and change, a few of them have also expressed their concerns for sociological theory. Rest of the essays are of different nature questioning the existential basis of human action, examining Nasr's philosophy on religion and nature and caste has also been taken into consideration. The essays are not only exhaustive but also shed enormous light on the Hindu social theory. Two contributors have raised the issue of workers participation and provided a detailed model to redeem the crisis. The book will be invaluable for both academics and the lay readers to appreciate the critical issues in modern Indian society. (jacket).…

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Globalisation Development and Culture : Essays in Honour of Professor S.P. Nagendra
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edited by C. Lakshmanna and Jugendra Sahai
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Rawat Publications
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2012
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