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This is a short introduction to the life and ideas of Jawaharlal Nehru, independent India's first prime minister, aimed at the general readers and the students.

The book tells the hitherto untold story of evolution of employment conditions in India over a period of six decades beginning in the mid-1950s. It reviews, in a sharp and concise manner, the conditions of employment existing at the start of India's journey of development, the way the conditions have changed since then and the linkages between the changes in employment conditions and economic growth. It outlines the employment challenge that India is now confrontedwith and discusses the possibilities and ways of meeting the challenge.

Surrogacy is a concise look at the ways in which systems of surrogacy have evolved in India, the issues and practices surrounding reproduction, kinship, women's bodies, reproductive technologies, and transnational reproductive tourism.

Critical introduction to India's democratic politics; this text offers a quick guide to key issues pertaining Indian democracy. This book introduces to the lay reader deeply contested riddles about India's democracy in a non-technical language. For anyone wanting to make assessment of Indian democracy, this tract should be the first valuable entry point.

Party systems have important political, social and economic consequences in a polity. This book analyses the characteristics, evolution and determinants of party system in India. It argues that party system in India continues to be shaped by a complex interaction of sociological, institutional and contextual factors. The book reinforces the argument that a competitive party system remains key to the functioning of Indian democracy, and the parties remain the mostimportant link between the state and its citizens.

This introduction to the Political Economy of Reforms in India discusses the political economy of the country's growth, globalization and welfare. It finds that political economy of growth and globalization are intimately connected. And, the political economy of welfare, though dependent to a much greater extent on state intervention than growth, is critically dependent on the growth process.

This book examines alternative paths to economic development with special reference to the Indian context. It examines alternative meanings of development, the main obstacles to it, including domestic, international and non-economic ones, and alternative strategies and solution. It argues against a doctrinaire neoliberal strategy and favours a balanced approach that pays careful attention to contextual factors.