Contents: Preface. I. From Sentiment: 1. Introduction: culture, space and social membership. 2. Space, non-space and site: root metaphor and Lex. 3. Root metaphors and regnant sets of meaning. 4. Space, territory and the nation-state. 5. Sentiment and structure: nation and state. II. To Structure: 6. Civil society or the state: what happened to citizenship?. 7.Fraternity, citizenship and affirmative action: recasting reservation in the language of rights. 8. Positive discrimination and the question of fraternity: connecting Durkheim to Rawls. 9. Minoritization and the public sphere. References and select bibliography. Index. "This unusual book extends the concerns of anthropology beyond the study of village life, rituals and caste observances to include considerations of the nation- state. Dipankar Gupta employs the analytical framework of the concept of culture combined with practical examples from everyday life to interpret Governance, citizenship and fraternity. He concludes that ostensibly political institutions have in fact deep cultural roots. Professor Gupta argues that the significance of culture lies in the fact that it informs the way people interact with each other in defined spaces. The nation- state being one such space, it should therefore be seen as an important cultural phenomenon and not merely as lineaments on a map. Only when the nation-state is understood as a cultural phenomenon can the passions it arouses be better understood. "The book is divided into two parts, the first is based on the premise that only in a defned space can there be a

Contents: Preface. 1. Child abuse and its history. 2. Recent political history of child abuse and neglect. 3. Extent of child abuse. 4. Causes of child abuse. 5. Child abuse prevention in schools. 6. Corporal punishment by parents. 7. Positive methods of treatment. 8. Due process for adolescents. 9. Limiting abuse reporting laws. 10. Putting juveniles in adult jails. 11. The consequences of child abuse. 12. Research into child protection practice. 13. Current issues in child protection work. Author index. Subject index. "A sensitive subject like child abuse in today's society has been tackled objectively and with many case studies in this book. The harsh reality of the existence of this cruel practice has awakened in researchers the need for more indepth study into the minds of its perpetrators, in order that steps can be taken to prevent and predict it. "The author has touched upon all aspects of child abuse, the many sad repercussions it has on the child's subsequent life, and the ways of handling and treating such a child. The issues discussed in the book have become increasingly important over the years. "This book will be of immense value to all academics and professionals who are actively engaged in the research of this subject, those working in the field in various capacities and also to the medical and paramedical staff handling victims of child abuse." (jacket) No. 21826

Contents: 1. World play of a wonder psyche (preface of the first Marathi edition). 2. Baba Amte: vision, mission and task (Foreword of the second Marathi edition). 3. The version story. I. The vision. 4. The Prelude: Semen of centuries. 5. Confessions of a Prime Minister. 6. Millenium of labour. 7. On the bank of Sweat river. 8. Adam has arision. 9. Son of the soil. 10. In praise of the condemned. 11. City of skeletons. 12. Pope, Promythius and the pill. 13. Good bye stranger. 14. The saint's deed. 15. Hail, O', the great commoner. 16. Gandhi: the face of an age. 17. Return of the Superman. II. The mission. 18. In the shadow of cross. 19. Eklavya: the dethumbed archer. 20. Vishwamitra: voice of my conscience. 21. Wings have no horizon. 22. Steps of revolution. 23. Colours of dusk. III. The task. 24. Towards a dream university. 25. Death of the pregnant. 26. I have not left the ship, yet! 27. The third way. "There is all over a sort of intoxication, a challenge, a vitality in this contemplation. There is an uproar of words, images and thoughts, like simultaneously blowing of trumpets and beating of drums. These works and images are the bleeding of wounds, borne by a genius while trodding the battle field of life earnestly and buoyantly. But this blood does not merely flow bubbling. While splinting it turns into a flame. Because Baba's experience does not stop at a sentimental sympathy or a transient sorrow. It goes into the roots of that sorrow with free reason. It searches for resurrection of the ruined man of today with the help of history, mythology, human life

Contents: Preface. Foreword. 1. Introduction. 2. Biographical sketch and literary emergence. 3. Treatment of nature. 4. Human relationships. 5. Religion. 6. Political views. 7. Autobiographical note. 8. Wit and humour. 9. Conclusions. Notes and references. Bibliography. "The very name Khushwant Singh conjures up the image of an untidily dressed, flirtatious sardar, fortified with scotch, and surrounded by a bevy of wannable women writers and socialites. The lay reader believes him to be an extremely superficial and frivolous man, who has a penchant for getting into soups due to his unrestrained opinions on disputable topics. They feel that neither he nor his writings ought to be taken seriously. The result is that when the merit of the works of Khushwant Singh are mentioned, it is usually taken with a pinch of salt. "Is this true? Is this all there is to Khushwant Singh? Then who is the creator of such masterpieces as: the award winning Train to Pakistan, Delhi, Religion of the Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singh - the saviour, My bleeding Punjab, Punjab's tragic story, Need for a new religion in India and other essays, Indira Gandhi returns, and the incomparable masterpiece. A history of the Sikhs, vol. I and vol. II? Khushwant Singh has written more than 72 books till date. His latest novel,The company of women was published in 1999, and his autobiography, Truth, love and a little malice is awaiting release. In the field of fiction he has written 34 short stories and 4 novels. "One is unable to relate the above-mentioned persona with the writer of these numerous serious and

Contents: Preface. 1. Self and society : a study of Bhabani Bhattacharya's So Many Hungers!/S.P. Swain. 2. Bhabani Bhattacharya's So Many Hungers!/ Mallikarjun Patil. 3. The day of the jackal-Perspectives on So Many Hungers!/N. Sharada Iyer. 4. Nationalism in Bhabani Bhattacharya's So Many Hungers! and Shadow from Ladakh/T. Asoka Rani. 5. A comparative study of the alienated protagonist in Bhabani Bhattacharya's So Many Hungers! and Music for Mohini/S.P. Swain. 6. The image of modern Indian woman in Bhattacharya's Music for Mohini/Shashikala Singh. 7. Denial of music to Mohini : a critique of Bhabani Bhattacharya's Music for Mohini/Rashmi Gaur.8. Tradition and progressiveness in Bhabani Bhattacharya's Music for Mohini/R. Shanti. 9. Indirect requests in Music for Mohini/N.M. Aston. 10. Bhabani Bhattacharya's He Who Rides a Tiger : a socio-economic perspective/Chhote Lal Khatri. 11. Pestilence and endurance : a study of Bhabani Bhattacharya's He Who Rides a Tiger/Ramesh Kumar Gupta. 12. Bhabani Bhattacharya's He Who Rides a Tiger : Kernel of Indian culture and caste system/Gajendra Kumar and Kumar Chandradeep. 13. Mystic value of Aurum for Tout le Monde : a study of Bhabani Bhattacharya's A Goddess Named Gold/ Ramesh Kumar Gupta. 14. Bhabani Bhattacharya's A Dream in Hawaii : a study in post-colonial spirituality/D. Ramakrishna. 15. Cultural synthesis in Bhabani Bhattacharya's A Dream in Hawaii/Anita Myles. 16. Bhabani Bhattacharya's A Dream in Hawaii : a microcosm of east-west rapprochement/ Pravat Chandra Mishra. 17. The message and the medium : a study of the

Contents: I. Introduction : Women, caste, class and Hindu communalism in U.P. II. Redefining obscenity and aesthetics in print : 1. Colonial perceptions of obscenity. 2. 'Obscenities' in Hindi literature: i. The indigenous elite and literary concerns. ii. 'Dirty' literature: contesting the logic of morality? 3. Brahmacharya, Kaliyug and the advertisement of Aphrodisiacs. III. Sanitising women's social spaces: 1. Controls over entertainment. 2. The dangers of prostitutes: the moral and urban geographical frameworks of Hindus. IV. Mapping the domestic domain : 1. Unstable sexualities: the sexual politics of the home: i. Conjugality and desire: the power of difference. ii. Controversies around some legislative activities on Hindu marriage. iii. Fashion, clothes, jewellery, purdah. iv.The Devar-Bhabhi relationship. 2. Education and the fear of reading: stated aims, unintended consequences. 3. Gender, Health and medical knowledge: i. From traditional dais to trained midwives. ii. Child-care, women's health and indigenous practices. iii. Plague and women's honour. V.The icon of the mother: Bharat Mata, Matri Bhasha and Gau Mata: 1. Mapping the mother/nation: the Bharat Mata temple at Banaras. 2. Language debates: i. Hindi as mother. ii. Lewd or chaste, feminine or masculine? 3. The cow as mother. VI. 'US' and 'Them' : anxious Hindu masculinity and the 'other' : 1. From Malabar to Malkanas : the Shuddhi and Sangathan movements. 2. Evoking Hindu male prowess, community and nation. 3. Hindu woman as sister-in-arms. 4. Conceiving the 'other'" i. Approaching the

Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Profile of respondent companies. 3. Economic climate in India during eighties. 4. Fixed investment behaviour : theory and empirical analysis. 5. Inventory investment behaviour : theory and analysis of determinants. 6. The dynamics of corporate dividend behaviour. 7. Corporate behaviour in external financing. 8. Summary and concluding observations. Appendix: 1. Contribution of ordinary share capital to external funds. 2. Computed industry-wise Tobin's q value. 3. Capacity utilisation of industries under study. 4. Ordinary least square estimation of initial regression equations. 5. Copy of questionnaire. 6. List of respondent companies. Bibliography. "Financing and investment are two pillars; the strength of whose determines success in the corporate world. This book analyses the important factors and the role they play with each other and among themselves in shaping up decisions on investment and financing. The subject has been analysed based on statistical analysis as well as from the personal experiences of fifty financial managers in the manufacturing sector. These two sources of information have been collated to arrive at meaningful conclusions. "Book provides thorough understanding on these subjects of Indian corporate sector. Reading recommended useful for students of financial management, working managers and scholars who wish to pursue further research." No. 23272.

Contents: Preface. 1. Public finance. 2. Public expenditure. 3. Public revenue. 4. Business taxation. 5. Approaches to taxation. 6. Effects of taxation. 7. Incidence and shifting. 8. Taxable capacity. 9. Kinds of taxes. 10. Commodity taxation. 11. Problems of tax reforms. 12. Recommendations of committees/commissions remedies to check tax evasion as recommended by Nicholas Kaldor Committee. 13. Voluntary disclosure schemes.14. Federalism and federal finance. 15. Finances of the union government. 16. Finances of the state government. 17. Finance of local bodies. 18. Other taxes. 19. J & K Sales tax. 20. Historical development of Indian tax system. 21. Public debt and deficit financing. 22. Finance commissions. 23.Tax planning - a conceptual analysis. 24. Tax planning and forms of organisations. 25. Others issues in tax planning. Appendices. "The first part of the book deals with the public finance. It makes an in-depth study of the finances of the union, states and local government, the financial relations between the union and states, recommendations of different finance commissions and the devolution of funds from the union to states. Likewise, a detailed study of public expenditure has been made to get an idea of needs and resources of different set of governments in our country. "The second part of the book is devoted to the detailed study of taxation imposed by the central, state and local governments. Chapters on taxation seek to examine different aspects of taxation including a detailed study of incidence and shifting. "The third part of the book is

Contents: Preface. Editors' introduction. Author's prologue. I. 1. Husserl's concept of intentionality. 2. Can intentionality be explained away? 3. On Husserl's theory of meaning. 4. Husserl and Frege: a new look at their relationship. 5. The relevance of Husserl today. 6. Husserl on relativism in the late manuscripts. 7. Time: linear or cyclic, and Husserl's phenomenology of inner time consciousness. 8. Levels of understanding intentionality. 9. Intentions of intentionality: 20 theses. 10. Kant and Husserl. II. 11. The system and the phenomena: the Kant interpretations of Nicolai Hartmann and P.F. Strawson. 12. Phenomenology and history. 13. Some thoughts on time, history, and flux. 14. Phenomenology of religion and human purpose. 15. What is special about phenomenology of religion. 16.Religion and the sacred. 17. Phenomenology and psychology. 18. Remarks on Wilfrid Sellars' Paper on Perceptual Consciousness. 19. Thoughts on the concept of 'World'. 20. On philosophical description. 21. A case for idealism. Index. "This volume is a collection of essays written by the renowned philosopher, J.N. Mohanty. Covering a span of over 25 years (1970-97), the essays provide insights into Mohanty's vision of phenomenology in general and Husserl's ideas in particular. The essays in the first part are directly concerned with the phenomenological method and central themes of phenomenology, especially the concept of intentionality. The essays in the second part deal with certain general philosophical problems and concepts such as time and history, religion, and psychology.

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Educational guidance. 3. Guidance and counselling. 4. Group counselling. 5. Counselling profession. 6. Teaching psychology. 7. Vocational and personal guidance. 8. Counselling techniques. 9. Future trends. Index. "Career counselling and education are conducted with a wide variety of individuals in diverse settings. Career counselling is a hybrid discipline, often misunderstood and not always fully appreciated by many professionals or the layman. "The book provides an authoritative account of basic doctrines and theoretical principles of career counselling and education, necessary to equip the reader with the requisite insight and understanding for effective functioning in the field." (jacket) No. 24754