Download or read book Remaking Ourselves Enterprise and Society written by G.P. Rao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decision makers interested in going beyond their own personal and professional interests and involving themselves in humanising their organization, community and society should read Remaking Ourselves, Enterprise and Society. This book is about adherence to human values at an institutional level, and its starting point is the belief that human beings have basic goodness, which in turn is reflected in the desire to be of help to others and to do good. Professor Rao introduces the Indian concept of 'Spandan' (Heartbeat). Spandan is operationalized through a process of diagnosis, discovery and development enabling organizations to achieve an optimal balance between what are defined as transactional, transformational, and terminal human values. This leads to management and organizations developing sensitivity to the needs of others, which they come to understand. When such sensitivity becomes integral to its work ethic and culture, an organization is able to temper its commitment to task with humanity and it becomes functionally humane. Experience suggests, not surprisingly, that organizations that can achieve this optimal balance between results and relations achieve higher employee commitment and productivity and increased accommodative spirit that better equips them to deal with difficult times. This exciting addition to Gower's Transformation and Innovation Series will enlighten business leaders, governmental and non-governmental policy makers, management educators, organization developers, and researchers.
Download or read book Serving Empire Serving Nation written by Jason Freitag and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Tod’s Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan was crucial in forming the modern image of the Rājpūt, a princely “martial” caste resident in India’s northwest desert. This book explores the relationships between the political power of the British imperial state, the construction of historical memories in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the uses of these constructions by European writers and Indian nationalist elites. The case of the Rajputs demonstrates how imperial histories reflected Indian social processes and pre-colonial forms of knowledge, interpreted India for the world outside and for Indians themselves. This book explores the multiple discourses within Tod’s Rajasthan, and European Orientalism, to show how intricately coded the British Empire was and, historically, remains.
Download or read book Society and Culture in Rajasthan C AD 700 900 written by Shanta Rani Sharma and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based On Prakrit Texts, Brahmanical Religions Literature, Inscriptions, Coins And Archaeological Material This Book Presents For The First Time A Systematic And Comprehensive Survey Of The Social And Cultural History Of Rajasthan From A.D. 700 To 900. Without Dustjacket.
Download or read book Society Economy Folk Culture of a Rajasthani Nomadic Community written by Satya Pal Ruhela and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nomadism Is An Ancient And Universal Phenomenon. Since The Beginning Of Mankind There Have Been Nomads In All The Countries. The Present Book Is A Comprehensive Sociological Research Study Of One Such Artisan Nomadic Community Of India. The Subject Of This Study Is The Community Of The Nomadic Blacksmiths Of India`S Rajasthan State Who Trace Their Origin From The Upper Rajput Caste And From The Times Of The Mughal Emperor Akbar`S Attack On The Famous Chittorgarh Fort Of Rajasthan Over Four Decades Book. Dejected By The Defeat Of The Ruler Of Chittorgarh, These Patriots Decided To Become Nomads, Adopt Blacksmithy As Their Profession, And Not To Return To Their Original Place, The Famous Rajput Fort Of Chittorgarh, Till It Required Independence. During The Last 450 Years Or So, They Have Thus Emerged As A Distinct Kind Of Artisan Nomad. This Happy Interesting Book Throws Up A Number Of Challenging Questions Before Sociologists Planners, Socialists, Anthropologists And Folk-Lorists.
Download or read book Colonial and Post Colonial Geographies of India written by Saraswati Raju and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-03-29 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Lamani Economy and Society in Change written by B. G. Halbar and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1986 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Practising Cultural Geographies written by Ravi S. Singh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This festschrift honours Prof. Rana P.B. Singh who has dedicated his life to teaching and conducting research on cultural geography with a ‘dweller Indian perspective’. The book focuses on the cultural geographies of India, and to an extent that of South Asia. It is a rich collection of 23 essays on the themes apprised by him, covering landscapes, religion, heritage, pilgrimage and tourism, and human settlements.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the World s Minorities written by Carl Skutsch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 3103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of minorities involves the difficult issues of rights, justice, equality, dignity, identity, autonomy, political liberties, and cultural freedoms. The A-Z Encyclopedia presents the facts, arguments, and areas of contention in over 560 entries in a clear, objective manner. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities website.
Download or read book Regional History of Medieval India written by Yaqub Ali Ali Khan and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstructs Indian regional history, from the rooting of Arab principality in Sind to the arrival of colonial rule in eastern India. Regional History of Medieval India: Society, Culture and Economy is a compilation of twenty chapters written on various themes associated with regional history during the medieval period. The volume offers varied, but comprehensive studies relating to medieval Indian History from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. The volume is based on extensive use of contemporary sources (including hitherto unknown), studied both at the macroscopic and microscopic levels. It is divided into five main sections namely, literary sources, state and administration, society, culture and economy, art and architecture and religion and mysticism. Contributors: C.M. Agrawal, Syed Mohammad Amir, S. Chandni Bi, Balwant Singh Dhillon, S.M. Azizuddin Husain, Mohammad Idris, Shahabuddin Iraqi, Arshad Islam, Saiyid Zaheer Husain Jafri, Syed Jamaluddin, Gulfishan Khan, M. Ifzalur-Rahman Khan, Sumbul Halim Khan, Yaqub Ali Khan, Nishat Manzar, Jigar Mohammed, S. Liyaqat Hussain Moini, Tasneem Suhrawardy, Rashmi Upadhyay, S.P. Vyas
Download or read book Community and Public Culture written by Anne Hardgrove and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elite community in India, neither Anglicized nor traditional, shaped instead by diaspora and capitalist enterprise, is the subject of Anne Hardgrove's research.
Download or read book The Mertiyo Rathors of Merto Rajasthan written by Richard Saran and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Meṛtīyo Rāṭhoṛs of Meṛto, Rājasthān is a treasure for scholars of Rajpūt history. Richard D. Saran and Norman P. Ziegler, whose contributions to Rajpūt studies are well known to specialists in the field, have given us a work of deep and exacting scholarship. It is the culmination of decades devoted to the study of Middle Marwari chronicles from Rājasthān. The sources translated here provide access to the fortunes of a branch of the Jodhpur royal family, and in doing so they illuminate the larger world of Rajpūts in the middle period. The Meṛtīyo Rāṭhoṛs are significant for several reasons. Their story traces the emergence of a Rajpūt brotherhood into local prominence and follows the establishment of their kingdom on the eastern edge of Mārvāṛ as a defined territorial unit. The evolution of the Meṛtīyos as a brotherhood passed through several clearly defined stages, including a relationship with the house of Jodhpur that ranged from mutual support among brothers to hostility and clear separation. A study of the Meṛtīyos in this context provides a unique view of the formation of a strong and indpenedent Rajpūt cadet line, of the establishment and defense of a local territory, and of the internal relations among Rajpūt brotherhoods regarding issues of precedence, honor, patronage, and service. The translations are accompanied by an extensive explanatory apparatus taking various forms, which includes a valuable essay on Rajput social organization, complete genealogies, and biographies of all the major personages of the chronicles.
Download or read book Society and Circulation written by Claude Markovits and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of an "eternal India", based on stable and unchanging villages, has been in disarray for at least two decades. However, having demolished this myth, historians have been rather less able to construct an alternative vision. This volume sets out to do just that, using the idea of "circulation" in relation to South Asia in the colonial period. It comprises a set of complementary essays which deal with merchant circulation, pilgrimages, cartography, policing, labor mobility, and the movement of itinerant groups from colonial administrators to wandering bards, demonstrating that the South Asia of this period was made and remade by changing patterns and the logic of circulation. Once this perspective is integrated into the analysis of society, new and disturbing questions emerge on issues such as culture, identity and ethnogenesis, which are normally treated in the context of fixed and stable societies. The essays in this volume - written by some of the leading authorities in South Asian history - break new ground in suggesting the outlines of a different framework for historical analysis. This volume will interest not only South Asianists, but also those interested in historical method as well as wider comparative perspectives on early modern and contemporary history.
Download or read book The Social System and Culture of Modern India written by Danesh A. Chekki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Arnold J. Toynbee, ‘India is a world in itself; it is a society of the same immensity and importance as is our Western society’. In global perspective, the immensity, diversity, and unique importance of Indian society and culture can hardly be underestimated. This reference volume, first published in 1975, encompasses studies that reflect both the unity and diversity of India’s culture and social system.
Download or read book Sovereignty and Social Reform in India written by Andrea Major and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an important reinterpretation of major themes of sovereignty, authority and social reform in colonial South Asian history. Focusing on the British prohibition of sati in 1829, the author shows how the debates that preceded this legislation have effectively set the terms of post-colonial debates about sati, as well as more generally defining the parameters of British involvement in Indian social and religious issues.
Download or read book Maharaja Man Singh of Jodhpur and His Times 1803 1843 A D written by Padmaja Sharma and published by Agra : Shiva Lal Agarwala. This book was released on 1972 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nomadic Narratives written by Tanuja Kothiyal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thar Desert, which is today divided by an international boundary, has historically been a frontier region connecting Punjab, Multan, Sindh, Gujarat and Rajasthan. This book looks at the Desert as an historical region shaped through the mobility of its inhabitants - warriors, pastoralists, traders, ascetics and bards, often in overlapping capacities. It challenges the frames of Mughal-Rajput relationships generally employed to explore the histories of the Thar, arguing that Rajputana remains an inadequate category to explore polities located in this frontier region, where along with Rajputs, a range of groups, such as Charans, Bhils, Meenas, Soomras and Pathans controlled circulation, and with whom the Rajput states had to constantly negotiate. Sifting through a wide range of Rajasthani written and oral narratives, travelogues of British administrators, and vernacular as well as English records, the book explores long-term relationships between mobility, martiality, memory and identity in the desert expanses of the Thar.
Download or read book Urban Histories of Rajasthan written by Elizabeth M. Thelen and published by Gingko Library. This book was released on 2022-06-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of religious conflicts in premodern urban India. Diverse peoples intermingled in the streets and markets of premodern Indian cities. This book considers how these diverse residents lived together and negotiated their differences. Which differences mattered, when and to whom? How did state actions and policies affect urban society and the lives of various communities? How and why did conflict occur in urban spaces? Through these questions, this book explores the histories of urban communities in the three cities of Ajmer, Nagaur, and Pushkar in Rajasthan, between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The focus of this study is on everyday life, contextualizing religious practices and conflicts by considering patterns of patronage and broader conflict patterns within society. The book examines various archival documents, from family and institutional records to state registers, and uses these documents to demonstrate the complex and sometimes contradictory ways religion intersected with politics, economics, and society. The author shows how many patronage patterns and processes persisted in altered forms, and how the robustness of these structures contributed to the resilience of urban spaces and society in precolonial Rajasthan.
