Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

Rajesh Danane ¹

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1 Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, IN

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Rajesh Danane ¹

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1 Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune 411004, IN

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This book is a collection of papers presented at the national seminar on Indian agrarian crisis organized at the National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad. Following an introduction elucidating the problem by the editors, it is divided into five parts.

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Rajesh Danane ¹

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1 Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune 411004., IN

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This book is a collection of essays on higher education in India. The first chapter is introductory and contributed by the editors. It contains a brief historical overview of higher education in India and its rapid expansion in recent year. It then passes on to four key challenges, i.e., quality, access, financing and internationalism. They point out that the book attempts to understand the complexity of the challenges before Indian higher education which is receiving increasing academic attention of late. This is all the more essential because there has been expansion and massification of higher education. For example, in 20113- 14 alone, 2,467 new colleges were opened – nearly seven per day.

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Rajesh Danane ¹

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1 Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune 411004, IN

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With a question as its title, the book contains a number of essays which seek to answer it. These essays were written when the general elections were round the corner in the country and they contain an assessment of the NDA-II government in terms of what it had promised and what it has delivered. The contributors are academicians, journalists and others which means that their views need to be taken seriously even if the reader may decide not to agree with them.

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Rajesh Danane ¹

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1 Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics Pune 411004, IN

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This small book has seven chapters, apart from introduction. The authors claim that it is the first systematic review of the politics and policy- making that lay behind the array of anti-poverty programmes undertaken by the UPA coalition. It examines how far the UPA delivered on its promise to meet the needs of the poor. It analyses official Indian thinking and policy making on poverty in the early twenty–first century. It reveals the politics behind the designand implementation of these programmes and the important roles played by senior political leaders, bureaucrats and civil society activists in influencing the UPA’s adoption of a rights-based agenda. Perhaps more important than any direct role in the policy making process was the indirect role that the left front parties played. Sonia Gandhi also used her influence to facilitate and promote social policies in several other ways.

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