A new book Contemporary India - TRANSITIONS edited by  Peter Ronald deSouza has just been released by Sage Publications and published at New Delhi, New York and London.

Peter Ronald deSouza is Professor at and currently Head of the Department of Political Science, Goa University.

Other contributors are U.R. Ananthamurthy, S.S. Bhandare, Rajeev Bhargava, Rustom Bharucha, Errol D'Souza, Bhupat M. Desai, Gopal Guru, Zoya Hasan, Nawaz B. Mody, Seemanthini Niranjana, Maria Ligia Noronha, Ghanshyam Shah, D.L Sheth, Soli J. Sorabjee, Romila Thapar and B.G. Verghese

A diverse and distinguished group of above scholars and commentators - historians, philosophers, journalists, jurists,writers, economists, theatre critics, sociologists, environmentalists and political scientists - come together in this remarkable volume to reflect upon the multiple transitions under way in the polity, economy, society and civilisational space of contemporary India.

The book is divided thematically into five sections - Civilisation in Transition, Economy in Transition, Polity in Transition, Society in Transition and the final section , Goa in Transition is intended to redress the neglect of Goa in studies of contemporary India. It looks at issues that loom large in Goa today, including the state of its finances, the problem of the trade-off between development and environment, and a survey of a decade of politics in Goa

The 338 pages book has been priced at Rs 475/-

For orders and further inquiries please e-mail

sageind@nda.vsnl.net.in

or

bookorders@indiasage.com


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