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  • Ramrao

    The Story of India's Farm Crisis

    de Jaideep Hardikar ...
    One morning in 2014, Ramrao Panchleniwar, an ordinary cotton grower in Maharashtra's infamous Vidarbha region, consumed two bottles of pesticide in a bid to commit suicide. But he miraculously survived.In Ramrao, rural journalist Jaideep Hardikar attempts to put a face to India's unending farm crisis with his story. He takes the reader on a journey of the everyday life of an Indian farmer, his ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

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  • Making Peace with the Earth

    de Vandana Shiva ...
    'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists', Vandana Shiva demolishes the myths propagated by corporate globalisation in its pursuit of profit and power, revealing the devastating environmental impact of corporate capitalism.Shiva argues that consumerism lubricates the war against the earth and that corporate control violates all ethical and ecological limits. She takes the reader on a ... Leer más

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  • Kautliya's Arthasastra ( 300 B.C.): Economic Ideas

    ECONOMICS, #3

    de Ratan Lal Basu ...
    Series Libro 3 - ECONOMICS
    This book delineates all the economic ideas embedded in the Arthasastra composed around 300 B.C. in India by Kautilya, a great Brahmin scholar and the Prime Minister of the Maurya king. To enable free reading the English translations of the supporting excerpts from the original text has been relegated to the end of the book under 'notes'. ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A River Runs Again

    India's Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka

    de Meera Subramanian ...
    Crowded, hot, subject to violent swings in climate, with a government unable or unwilling to face the most vital challenges, the rich and poor increasingly living in worlds apart; for most of the world, this picture is of a possible future. For India, it is the very real present.In this lyrical exploration of life, loss, and survival, Meera Subramanian travels in search of the ordinary people and ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Waste of a Nation

    Garbage and Growth in India

    de Assa Doron, Robin Jeffrey ...
    In India, you can still find the kabaadiwala, the rag-and-bone man. He wanders from house to house buying old newspapers, broken utensils, plastic bottles—anything for which he can get a little cash. This custom persists and recreates itself alongside the new economies and ecologies of consumer capitalism. Waste of a Nation offers an anthropological and historical account of India’s complex ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Saris on Scooters

    How Microcredit Is Changing Village India

    de Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos, Mary Ellen Iskenderian ...
    Renowned author and journalist Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos uses her talent for investigative reporting to take us deep into the poorest villages in India. Yet, far from being passive victims of their circumstances, the women who live there have joined forces and are making astute use of microcredit to break the cycle of poverty.Microcredit was made famous by Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Violence of the Green Revolution

    Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics

    de Vandana Shiva ...
    Series series Culture of the Land
    The Green Revolution has been heralded as a political and technological achievement—unprecedented in human history. Yet in the decades that have followed it, this supposedly nonviolent revolution has left lands ravaged by violence and ecological scarcity. A dedicated empiricist, Vandana Shiva takes a magnifying glass to the effects of the Green Revolution in India, examining the devastating ... Leer más

    $20.49 USD

  • Landscapes of Loss

    The Story of an Indian Drought

    de Kavitha Iyer ...
    WINNER OF THE TATA LITERATURE LIVE FIRST BOOK AWARD (NON-FICTION) 2021Maharashtra, India's richest state by GDP, has its eyes set on becoming the country's first trillion-dollar economy by 2025. At the same time, Marathwada - a historically backward part of the state adjoining the distressed Vidarbha region - has seen a surge in farmer suicides.At the heart of the crisis is a cyclical drought that ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • INDIAS NEW CAPITALISTS: Caste, Business, and Industry in a Modern Nation

    de HARISH DAMODARAN ...
    Who are the major new Indian business people? What is their social profile? Business in India was traditionally the preserve of certain Bania communities clubbed under the Vaishya order. The term Bania, in fact, acquired a generic connotation and could refer to the village moneylender, shopkeeper, wholesaler, or large factory owner. More recently, Indias commercial ethos has changed massively with ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • A Frayed History

    The Journey of Cotton in India

    de Uzramma, Meena Menon ...
    Once the envy of the world for its quality and variety, Indian cotton today is mired in uncertainty and despair. Though India is the largest producer of cotton, its farmers are trapped in debt, and thousands choose to kill themselves than face an ignominious fate. Handloom weavers, once proud standard-bearers of the country's artisanal heritage, are barely able to scrape together a living. To make ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Widows of Vidarbha

    Making of Shadows

    de Kota Neelima ...
    Vidarbha—the parched heartland of central India—has become the foremost site of farmer suicides in the country. These suicides are the most striking indictment of the neglect of agriculture by the state. But the story of the farmers’ distress does not end with their death—it lives on in the experience of their widows who struggle to survive in the shadows. Widows of Vidarbha tells the story of 16 ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Enhancing Agricultural Productivity and Farmer Incomes in Bihar

    Edición de Bhaumik, Sankar Kumar ...
    Enhancing Agricultural Productivity and Farmer Incomes in Bihar discusses the performance of Bihar's agriculture sector in recent times and the multifarious challenges it is facing. The book explores future possibilities from the perspectives of raising agricultural productivity and farmer incomes and attaining inclusive growth. Given that doubling farmers' incomes in India is the declared agenda ... Leer más

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