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(March 16-21, 2020)

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The VUCA Learner: Future-proof Your Relevance by Suhay Abidi and Manoj Joshi Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd.: New Delhi, 2018

247p 9789352807512

650.13 ABI / M0035505

Connect to Koha… Content:

1. Introduction: why learn 2. An unexpected learner 3. The future of work: the new

workplace 4. Who will win: preparing for

the future 5. I am my own teacher 6. The world is your classroom:

self-learning tools 7. Together we learn; together

we grow 8. Family firm scion: learning

from the family business 9. Hierarchy or wirearchy:

learning in enterprises 10. The road less travelled:

learning in entrepreneurship 11. Future-ready.

Summary:

We are now living in a world of constant change and disruption. We can either see the world as a hurdle to or a limitless resource to engage stimulate and cultivate our imagination. In a globally networked world information is getting easier and easier to access. What you actually do with that information is the new challenge. Leaders do the thinking and others execute. Organized training is not keeping pace with the demands of the workplace. On one hand the shelf life of skills set is getting shorter and these may get obsolete fast. On the other hand new careers are spawning which were not on the horizon a couple of years back. What is the way out for a leader an executive or even a professional to remain relevant to workplace demands of the present as well as prepare for the future? The answer to all these questions is The VUCA Learner: Future-proof Your Relevance. As the world grows more complex and uncertain, opportunities for people with critical thinking innovation and imagination are on the rise. Organizations are only as good as the people they employ. To stay relevant and grow in this unforgiving business environment one needs to develop a learning mindset, where continuous lifelong learning becomes a daily habit to let go of the old and become agile adaptable and resilient.

Salespeople Don’t Lie by Roshan L. Joseph Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd.: New Delhi, 2018

179p 9789352807123

658.85 JOS / M0035506

Connect to Koha… Content: 1. How Did Salespeople Come to Be? 2. The Door-to-door Salesperson 3. The Used Car Salesperson 4. Sell Like Hell 5. The Dowry Totem Pole 6. Ours Not to Reason Why 7. Pirates of Sales: The Story of Medical Reps 8. More Pirates of Sales: Dumping Sales 9. Even More Pirates of Sales 10. Still More Pirates of Sales 11. The Heroes of Sales 12. Why Do Salespeople Lie? 13. To Be a Professional Salesperson 14. Who Teaches Whom to Sell? 15. The Sins of Our Forefathers 16. Understanding the Nature of a Sale 17. Sales Is Relationship at Work

Summary: Sales malpractice accounts for huge losses in businesses worldwide. The way to bring attention to this malaise is to ensure that salespeople worldwide understand the damage this malpractice causes. This book is a mission to spread the word on how sales can be a profession that does good for customers and adds value to their lives. A salesperson can be someone who does good for the society and to every individual who needs help in making the right decision

Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors by Matt Parker Allen Lane Publication: New Delhi, 2019

314p 9780241360194

510 PAR/ M0035521

Connect to Koha… Content: 1. Losing Track of Time 2. Engineering Mistakes 3. Little Data 4. Out of Shape 5. You Can't Count on It 6. Does Not Compute 7. Probably Wrong 8. Put Your Money Where Your Mistakes

Are 9. A Round-about Way 10. Too Small to Notice 11. Units Conventions and Why Can't We

All Just Gel Along? 12. Stats the Way I Like It 13. Titloay Rodanm 14. Does Not Compute.

Summary: What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? How do billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? How does a building rock when its resonant frequency matches a gym class leaping to Snap's 1990 hit I've Got The Power? The answer is math Or to be precise what happens when moths goes wrong in the real world. As Matt Parker shows us our modern lives are built on math computer programmes finance and engineering. And most of the time this math works quietly behind the scene until it doesn't. Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches near-misses and mishaps involving the internet big data elections street signs lotteries the Roman empire and a hapless Olympic shooting team Matt Parker shows us the bizarre ways math’s trips us up and what this reveals about its essential place in our world. This book shows how by making math’s our friend we can learn from its pitfalls. It also contains puzzles challenges geometric socks, jokes about binary code and three deliberate mistakes. Getting it wrong has never been more fun.

18. The Lonely Salesperson 19. Company Maketh the Man 20. The Devil Made Me Do It 21. When All Hell Breaks Loose 22. For Whom the Bell Tolls 23. Either You Don't Know, or You Are Lying 24. Tainted by the Company One Keeps 25. Sales Malpractice 26. A Sales System Really? 27. The Power of Discipline 28. What's Worth Doing Is Worth Doing Well Contents note continued 29. Freedom from Avoidable Worry 30. Motivation: A Bath Needed Daily 31. Principles of Professional Selling 32. Sales Teams and Unique Contributions 33. Know What to Pitch 34. Breaking Trust 35. Dr No 36. The Joy of Professional Selling 37. Balcony View of Sales 38. Evolving into a Sales Professional 39. Being in the Customer's Shoes 40. The Salesperson as a Servant 41. Handling Objection and Irate Customers 42. Always Diagnose Before You Prescribe 43. Meeting the Purchaser's Needs 44. Sales Functional Needs and Personal Aspirations 45. Pitching It for Impact 46. The Professional Salesperson 47. Develop Your Team 48. Creating a Resident Faculty 49. Too Proud to Lie

about a product they wish to purchase. One of the basic tenets of a sales team that meets customers face-to-face is that sales grow as the relationship grows between the customer and the salesperson. Trust is the principal ingredient that keeps relationships going. When a salesperson lies it is an assault on the very core of the relationship. Truth and transparency while hard to choose is less painful in the long run. The book advocates using a professional sales system that facilitates sales successes in an easy and legitimate way. A robust sales system not only helps in achieving sales targets but has an overall impact on the motivation of the sales team, thereby curtailing attrition.

The Journey of a Southern Feminist by Devaki Jain Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd.: New Delhi, 2018

270p 9788126573011

305.420954 JAI/ M0035522

Connect to Koha… Content:

1. Development as if Women Mattered: Can Women

Build a New Paradigm? 2. Advances in Feminist Theory: An Indian

Perspective 3. The Leadership Gap: A Challenge to Feminists 4. Minds, Not Bodies: Expanding the Notion of

Gender in Development 5. Indigenising Feminism 6. Challenges for Women in India in the New

Millennium 7. Globalism and Localism: Negotiating Feminist

Space 8. Women’s Participation in the History of Ideas

and the Reconstruction of Knowledge 9. Feminist Networks, People’s Movements and

Alliances: Learning from the Ground 10. To Be or Not to Be: Problems in Locating Women

in Public Policy 11. What Is Wrong with Economics? Can the Aam

Aurat Redefine Economic Reasoning? 12. The First Challengers: The Feminists of the

South 13. The Evolution of Ideas: A Feminist’s Reflections

on the Partnership with the UN System 14. Looking Back at the South Commission

Summary: This book is a collection of Devaki Jain’s writings and lectures related to the women’s movement in India and interventions in policy and fact base drawn from that experience. A journey of over six decades it presents important interventions in the design of national and international development policy. Beginning with a fascinating account of Jain’s own evolution into a feminist each chapter starts with an introductory note locating it in her own professional journey. The initial chapters of the book underline an important fact better understood now but a radical intervention when Jain wrote it that women’s reasoning and the ideas that emerge from their lived experience need to be converted into macro frameworks of development. The later chapters champion the role of local power in economic planning led by women in healing inequalities. They also pose a feminist challenge to inherited knowledge usually created and argued for by men. In her most recent work Jain reiterates that poor women’s struggles strategies and needs should inform development strategy at the local level. At a global level she talks of how women and their networks in the South are offering ideas on rethinking development.

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for the Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff Profile Books Ltd.: London, 2019

691p 9781788163163

306.3 ZUB/ M0035525

Connect to Koha… Content: 1. Home or exile in the digital future Part I: The foundations of surveillance capitalism 2. August 9, 2011 : setting the stage for surveillance

capitalism 3. The discovery of behavioral surplus 4. The moat around the castle 5. The elaboration of surveillance capitalism : kidnap corner

compete 6. Hijacked : the division of learning in society

Summary: Society is at a turning point. The heady optimism that accompanied the advent of the Internet is gone replaced by a deep unease. Technologies that were meant to liberate us have exacerbated social inequalities and stoked explosive political climates across the world. Tech companies gather our information online and sell it to the highest bidder whether government or

Part II: The advance of surveillance capitalism 7. The reality business 8. Rendition : from experience to data 9. Rendition from the depths 10. Make them dance 11. The right to the future tense Part III: Instrumentarian power for a third modernity 12. Two species of power 13. Big other and the rise of instrumentarian power 14. A utopia of certainty 15. The instrumentarian collective 16. Of life in the hive 17. The right to sanctuary Conclusion 18. A coup from above

retailer. In this world of surveillance capitalism profit depends not only on predicting our behaviour but modifying it too. How will this fusion of capitalism and the digital shape our values and define our future? The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a deeply-reasoned examination of the threat of unprecedented power free from democratic oversight. As it explores this new capitalism's impact on society politics business and technology it exposes the fundamental struggles that will decide both the next chapter of capitalism and the meaning of information civilization.

Women in Political Thought: The Quest for Gender Equality and Beyond by Sushila Ramaswamy Orient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd.: Hyderabad, 2018

393p 9789386689580

305.42 RAM / M0035526

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Content: 1. Women and Political

thought 2. Enlightenment Liberal

feminism 3. Origins of US feminism 4. Rational Protest against

the subjection 5. Critique of Liberal

feminism 6. Ruse of liberal feminism 7. Rise of social democracy

in Germany 8. Feminism in Russia 9. Feminism in Post second

world war phase 10. Contemporary concerns

in feminism

Summary:

Women and Political Thought provides an in-depth analysis of women’s role and place in political thought. Beginning with Greek political thought Sushila Ramaswamy traces the history of eighteenth century liberalism which she demonstrates carried the seed of modern feminism. She discusses the effects the philosophies of Plato Hobbes Locke Rousseau and Hegel had on eighteenth century feminists. She offers detailed accounts of the main proponents of liberal feminism for example Mary Wollstonecraft Margaret Fuller and Elizabeth Stanton and the historical contexts that shaped them. She also analyses the works of Jeremy Bentham James Mill and John Stuart Mill as central to later revised liberal feminism. Ramaswamy also focuses on women thinkers from other ideological standpoints the early socialists the Marxists and the social democrats that formed parts of the first wave feminism. She concludes by tracking the rise of radical feminism and its core ideas the second wave liberal feminism of Betty Friedan the rise of postmodern feminism and eco-feminism during the third wave. This is a comprehensive and detailed history of key women political thinkers and various schools of feminist thought.

Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People : Over 325 Ready-to-Use Words and Phrases for Working with Challenging Personalities by Renee Evenson AMACOM: New York, 2014

225p 9780814432983

650.13014 EVE / M0035527

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Content: Summary:

Part I: Powerful Phrases + Actions = Successful Work Relationship 1. Communicating

Powerful Phrases 2. Actions That

Enhance Powerful Phrases

Part II: Effective Conflict Resolution = Strengthened Work Relationships 3. Five Steps to

Effective Conflict Resolution

4. Powerful Phrases for Challenging

5. Powerful Phrases for Challenging

6. Powerful Phrases for Situations You Cause

The key to a harmonious highly effective work environment is not by ensuring you work among carbon copies of yourself whose personalities never clash with one another or with you. That pipe dream could not ever happen nor would it result in successful team collaboration even if it could Instead most of us are going to work today with individuals who at times come across as incompetent lazy spotlight-hugging whiny or backstabbing And then tomorrow we go to work with them again and again and again Like it or not the bulk of our waking hours are spent with people at work people who can grate on our nerves. Therefore learning to interact effectively with difficult employee’s colleagues and bosses is an absolute essential for our success. With Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People anyone can learn how to confront head-on the difficult situations that can arise when dealing with these personalities before they fester and spread. Helpful features inside this practical and easy-to-use book include: Thirty common personality traits behaviors and workplace scenarios along with the phrases that work best with each * Nonverbal communication skills to back up your words * Sample dialogues that demonstrate how phrasing improves interactions * A five-step process for moving from conflict to resolution *"Why This Works" sections that provide detailed explanations Button-pushing situations are going to come up today at work and tomorrow too. Don't let them rent space inside of you and turning everything to mold Instead choose to deploy simple phrases to regain control and resolve conflicts. When you do you your colleagues and your company will be all the better for it!

The Joy of Leadership How Positive Psychology Can Maximize Your Impact (and Make You Happier) in a Challenging World by Tal Ben-Shahar and Angus Ridgway Wiley India Pvt. Ltd.: New Delhi, 2017

227p 9788126572908

303.34019 BEN/ M0035528

Connect to Koha… Content: Part I: The disaggregated world 1. The 10X effect : performance multipliers

to achieve lasting success and fulfillment 2. Giving way to the new : the boundary less

Twenty-First-Century work environment 3. Myths of happiness and leadership :

making the case for SHARP Part II: What 10X leaders do 4. Strengths : making the most of your gifts 5. Health : injecting energy into life and

work 6. Absorption : revealing the extraordinary in

the ordinary through mindful engagement 7. Relationships : forming authentic and

positive bonds 8. Purpose : meaning and commitment are

the path to joyful leadership 9. The balanced approach : SHARP and

cascading success Part III: How to change and stay changed 10. Obstacles and pathways to lasting

behavioral change : neuroplasticity and the possibility of joyful transformation

11. Creating new, durable pathways to joyful

Summary: The difference between flourishing and floundering is 10X. The difference between quantity and quality is a factor of 10. The difference in levels of engagement is exponential. People functioning at the highest level are what the authors call 10x leaders. Research on these leaders consistently brought up five major strengths. This book teaches readers to become a 10x leader using these five key areas the SHARP framework. Strengths: 10X leaders stop trying to eliminate weaknesses and learn to focus on their strengths *Health: 10X leaders stop trying to eliminate stress and learn how to integrate periods of restoration *Absorption: 10X leaders stop waiting for the lightning of focus and creativity to strike and learn how to achieve consistent engagement and presence *Relationships: 10X leaders stop trying to exert power and control and learn to cultivate healthy relationships through positivity and authenticity *Purpose: 10X leaders stop grinding out tasks and learn how to find meaning and commitment in everything they do The 10X elixir of peak performance comes not from focusing on just one of these areas but from learning to light the fire of all five aspects of SHARP and functioning naturally with them on a daily basis. If you just cultivate one or two aspects of leadership skills you are unlikely to succeed. If one of the five isn't taken care of it affects the performance

leadership : tools and tactics for making SHARP changes

12. Finale: the 10X effect revisited and becoming the sum total of who you are.

of the whole. But if you focus on all five areas you will not only be more likely to find what helps you most you have the best chance of enjoying the synergy of performance multiplication.

Human Development in an Unequal World by K Seeta Prabhu and Sandhya S. Iyer Oxford University Press: New Delhi, 2019

370p 9780199490240

305 PRA / M0035529

Connect to Koha… Content:

1. Introduction

2. The Concept

3. Human Flourishing and Well-being

4. Measuring Human Progress

5. Economic Growth and Human

Development: Evidence of

Muddled Pathway

6. Social Sectors in Human

Development

7. Deprivation and Distribution

8. Gender and Human Development

9. Sustainable Development:

Securing the Present and the

Future

10. Epilogue

Summary: This book is about the human development paradigm that is assuming renewed importance at a time when global dialogue is preoccupied with discussing pathways for achieving the 2030 agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals. It deals with the concepts of human development in an unequal world and examines a range of issues of contemporary relevance such as social sectors poverty gender inequality social exclusion and sustainability. It argues for a paradigmatic shift in analysis policy and methodology towards a people-centered approach rooted in human flourishing and freedoms. The expansive lexicon of the human development approach is discussed in a succinct and integrated manner. The ten chapters of the book weave together the numerous concepts methods and evidence. The comprehensive coverage and the integrated framework presented will enable readers across the globe to arrive at a thorough understanding of the human development approach and apply these frameworks in development practice with a fresh and more relevant perspective.

Reignited 2 - Emerging Technologies of Tomorrow by Srijan Pal Singh Penguin Random House India: Haryana, 2019

275p 9780143441120

502.3 SIN / M0035531

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Content: 1. Introduction 2. Automobile Technology 3. Environmental science 4. Nanotechnology 5. Agriculture 6. Deface and Weapons 7. Astrobiology 8. Artificial Intelligence 9. Energy

Summary: Following the success of Reignited: Scientific Pathways to a Brighter Future, Srijan Pal Singh pens yet another significant book for students. This second volume bears all about some exciting and cutting-edge fields in sciences such as automobiles energy astrobiology environment and defense technologies and a lot more! This groundbreaking book will provide young readers with a whole new world of ideas inspiration and inputs from pioneers in fields that have shaped the world helping them think out of the box and make a difference in the future. A must-have guidebook for all budding scientists who are looking to change the world through careers in science and technology!

Investing for Dummies by Eric Tyson Wiley India Pvt. Ltd.: New Delhi, 2019 8th ed 423p 9788126578993

332.6 TYS / M0035541

Connect to Koha… Content: Part I: Getting Started with Investing 1. Exploring Your Investment Choices 2. Weighing Risks and Returns 3. Getting Your Financial House in Order Part II: Stocks, Bonds, and Wall Street 4. The Workings of Stock and Bond Markets 5. Building Wealth with Stocks 6. Investigating and Purchasing Individual Stocks 7. Exploring Bonds and Other Lending Investments 8. Mastering Mutual Funds and Exchange-Traded Funds . 9. Choosing a Brokerage Firm Part III: Growing Wealth with Real Estate 10. Investing in a Home 11. Investing in Real Estate 12. Real Estate Financing and Deal Making Part IV: Savoring Small Business 13. Assessing Your Appetite for Small Business 14. Starting and Running a Small Business 15. Purchasing a Small Business Part V: Investing Resources 16. Selecting Investing Resources Wisely 17. Perusing Periodicals, Radio, and Television 18. Selecting the Best Investment Books 19. Investigating Internet and Software Resources Part VI: The Part of Tens 20. Ten Investing Obstacles to Conquer 21. Ten Things to Weigh When Considering an Investment

Sale 22. Ten Tips for Investing in a Down Market

Summary: The easy way to invest in your financial future in the world of investing slow and steady wins the race. With this mantra in mind trusted author and finance Guru Eric Tyson is back with the latest edition of the bestselling book investing for Dummies to help you achieve your investment goals. Inside he offers time tested advice on how to develop a winning investment strategy that matches your abilities with your expectations all the while ensuring you're slowly and steadily growing your portfolio. No matter where you are in your investment planning the recommendations and strategies in this popular and easy to follow reference offer everything you need to ramp up your portfolio. From the tax laws that affect investing decisions to the impact of the current political environment This fool proof guide covers it all and gives you the confidence to invest like the pros. Develop and manage your portfolio in any market choose investments that match your goals navigate the world of online investing and robot advisors whether you're a millennial securing your first job an employee rolling over a 401(k) a baby Boomer looking to shore up your nest egg prior to retirement or anywhere in between all the sound investment advice you need is at your fingertips!.

Performance and the Political: Power and Pleasure in Contemporary Kerala by Ameet Parameswaran Orient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd.: Hyderabad, 2017

248p 9789386392459

792.095483 PAR / M0035542

Connect to Koha… Content: 1. Vision: Seeing

and Acting in Times of Terror

2. Voice: The Auratic and the Passion of

Summary: In Performance and the Political, Ameet Parameswaran demonstrates how cultural performances can stage the political in ways that add to the more visible and traditional practices of popular politics. Through the lens of Performance Studies, the book explores Kerala’s transformation into a neoliberal region. Influenced by contemporary theories of ‘affect’ Parameswaran highlights bodily sensory locations and actions and embodiment in general as important but neglected sites of enormous

Democracy 3. Gesture: Ethics,

Collective and the Ordinary

4. Machinic: Sounding the consumption Regime

5. Animal: Zooesis and becoming With in Neoliberalism

political significance. His first two chapters focus on two sensory locations central to the experience of any performance—vision and voice. The third emphasises gesture while the last two chapters focus on two aspects that push at the boundaries of being-human—the machinic and the animal. By closely analysing how these affects and embodiments are used in performances, Parameswaran discusses the cultural politics of staging both the revolutionary and the terrorist during the Emergency of 1975–77 and after; the relationship between authoritarianism and democracy and the emergence of a neoliberal consumption regime following widespread migration to the Gulf. In the process he analyses diverse performance forms, like theatre, cinema, kathaprasangam, mimics parade and popular poetry recitals. Deeply theoretical and original this book will interest students and scholars of Performance Studies, Cultural Studies, Theatre Studies and Film Studies

The Ultimate Finance Book: Master Profit Statements, Understand Bookkeeping & Accounting, Prepare Budgets & Forecasts by Roger Mason Teach Yourself: London, 2018

428p 9781473683815

332 MAS / M0035543

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Content: Part I: Your Finance for Non-Financial Managers Masterclass 1. An introduction to the profit statement 2. An introduction to the balance sheet 3. Understand published accounts 4. Accounting ratios and investment decisions 5. Cash and the management of working capital 6. Costing 7. Budgets Part II: Your Bookkeeping and Accounting masterclass 8. The basic principles of bookkeeping 9. Different types of account and ledger 10. More aspects of bookkeeping 11. Preparation for the accounts 12. The profit and loss account 13. The balance sheet Part III: Your Understanding and Interpreting Accounts Masterclass 14. The right approach 15. An introduction to accounts 16. The profit and loss account or income statement 17. The balance sheet or statement of financial position 18. Cash flow statement and group accounts 19. The reports Part IV: Your Successful budgeting and Forecasting Masteclass 20. Budgeting and forecasting fundamentals 21. More budgeting and forecasting fundamentals 22. Capital expenditure, sales and revenue budgets 23. Expenditure budgets 24. The profit and loss budget 25. The cash budget 26. Monitoring progress against budgets and forecasts.

Summary: The Ultimate Finance Book gives you everything you need to understand finance and accounting. It is a dynamic collection of essential skills covering the topics that will help you make a seismic impact upon your performance faster than you ever thought possible. If you want to be the best you have to have the right skillset. From balance sheets and profit statements to cash flow budgets and forecasts The Ultimate Finance Book is a dynamic collection of tools techniques and strategies for success. Discover the main themes key ideas and tools you need and bring it all together with practical exercises. This is your complete course in business finance. Ultimate books are for manager’s leaders and business executives who want to succeed at work. From marketing and sales to management and finance each title gives comprehensive coverage of the essential business skills you need to get ahead in your career. Written in straightforward English each book is designed to help you quickly master the subject with fun quizzes embedded so that you can check how you're doing

Stock Investing for Dummies by Paul Mladjenovic Wiley India Pvt. Ltd.: New Delhi, 2016 5th ed 358p 9788126579020

332.6 MLA / M0035547

Connect to Koha… Content: Part I: The Essentials of Stock Investing 1. Surveying the World of Stock Investing. 2. Taking Stock of Your Current Financial Situation and Goals 3. Defining Common Approaches to Stock Investing 4. Recognizing Risk and Volatility 5. Stock Investing through Exchange-Traded Funds Part II: Before You Start Buying 6. Gathering Information 7. Going for Brokers 8. Investing for Long-Term Growth 9. Investing for Income: Dividend-Paying Stocks 10. Understanding Technical Analysis for Stock Investors Part III: Picking Winners 11. Using Basic Accounting to Choose Winning Stocks 12. Decoding Company Documents 13. Emerging Sector and Industry Opportunities 14. Small Cap Stocks, IPOs, and Motif Investing 15. The Big Economic and Political Picture Part IV: Investment Strategies and Tactics 16. Discovering Screening Tools 17. Understanding Brokerage Orders and Trading Techniques 18. Using Trade Triggers and Advanced Conditional Orders 19. Getting a Handle on DPPs DRPs and DCA PDQ 20. Corporate and Government Skullduggery: Looking at Insider Activity 21. Keeping More of Your Money from the Taxman Part V: The Part of Tens 22. Ten Indicators of a Great Stock 23. Ten Ways to Profit in a Bear Market 24. Ten Investments and Strategies That Go Great with Stocks Part VI: Appendixes

Appendix A: Resources for Stock investors Appendix B: Financial Ratios

Summary:

Updated with new and revised material to reflect the current market, this new edition of Stock Investing For Dummies gives you proven strategies for selecting and managing profitable investments. No matter what the conditions. You'll find out how to navigate the new economic landscape and choose the right stock for different situations with real world examples that show you how to maximize your portfolio. The economic and global events affecting stock investors have been dramatic and present new challenges and opportunities for investors and money managers at every level. With the help of this guide you'll quickly and easily navigate an ever changing stock market with plain-English tips and information on ETFs new rules exchanges and investment vehicles as well as the latest information on the European debt crisis.

The Oxford Handbook of Meaningful Work Ed by Ruth Teinabm, Catherine Bailey, Adrian Madden and Marc Thompson Oxford University Press: New York, 2019

508p 9780198788232

658.4058 OXF / M0035548

Connect to Koha… Content: Part I: The Philosophy of Meaningful Work

1. The Moral Conditions of Work

2. Dignity and Meaningful Work

Summary: The Oxford Handbook of Meaningful Work examines the concept, practices and effects of meaningful work in

3. Meaningful Work and Freedom: Self-Realization

4. Work, Meaning and Virtue

5. Work and the Meaning of Being

6. To Have Lived Well: Well-Being and Meaningful Work Part II: Processes of Meaningfulness

7. Do We Have to Do Meaningful Work

8. Identity and Meaningful/Meaningless Work Nancy Harding

9. Self-Transcendence and Meaningful Work Adrian Madden and Catherine Bailey

10. Belonging' and Its Relationship to the Experience of Meaningful Work

11. Exploring Work Orientations and Cultural Accounts of Work: Towards a Research Agenda for Examining the Role of Culture in Meaningful Work

12. Meaning in Life and In Work Part III: The Experience of Meaningful Work

13. Meanings and Dirty Work: A Study of Refuse Collectors and Street Cleaners

14. Finding Meaning in the Work of Caring

15. Exploring Meaningful Work in the Third Sector

16. Callings

17. Does My Engagement Matter?: Exploring the Relationship Between Employee Engagement and Meaningful Work in Theory and Practice

18. Work Through a Gender Lens: More Work and More Sources of Meaningfulness

19. Leadership and Meaningful Work Part IV: Contexts and Boundaries of Meaningful Work

20. Fostering the Human Spirit: A Positive Ethical Framework for Experiencing Meaningfulness at Work

21. Direct Participation and Meaningful Work: The Implications of Task Discretion and Organisational Participation

22. Accounting for Meaningful Work

23. Meaningful Work and Family: How Does the Pursuit of Meaningful Work Impact One's Family

24. Does Corporate Social Responsibility Enhance Meaningful Work? A Multi-Perspective Theoretical Framework

25. Cultural, National and Individual Diversity and their Relationship to the Experience of Meaningful Work

26. Bringing Political Economy Back-in: A Comparative Institutionalist Perspective on Meaningful Work

27. The Meaningful City: Towards a Theory of Public Meaningfulness City Institutions and Civic Work

organizations and beyond. Taking an interdisciplinary approach this volume reflects diverse scholarly contributions to understanding meaningful work from philosophy political theory psychology sociology organizational studies and economics. In philosophy and political theory treatments of meaningful work have been influenced by debates concerning the tensions between work as unavoidable and necessary and work as a source of self-realization and human flourishing. This tension has come into renewed focus as work is reshaped by technology, globalization and new forms of organization. In management studies much empirical work has focused on meaningful work from the perspective of positive psychology but more recent research has considered meaningful work as a complex phenomenon socially constructed from interactive processes between individuals and between individual’s organizations and society. This Handbook examines meaningful work in the context of moral and pragmatic concerns such as human flourishing, dignity alienation freedom and organizational ethics. The collection illuminates the relationship of meaningful work to organizational constructs of identity belonging callings self-transcendence culture and occupations. Representing some of the most up to date academic research the editors aim to inspire and equip researchers by identifying new directions and methods with which to deepen scholarly inquiry into a topic of growing importance.

The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life by Paul Davies Penguin Random House India: New Delhi, 2019

251p 9780241309599

500 DAV/ M0035550

Connect to Koha… Content: 1. What is

life? 2. Enter the

demon

Summary: When Darwin set out to explain the origin of species he made no attempt to answer the deeper question: what is life? For generations scientists have struggled to make sense of this fundamental question. Life really does look like magic: even a humble bacterium accomplishes things so dazzling that no human engineer can match it. And yet huge

3. The logic of life

4. Darwinism 2.0

5. Spooky life and quantum demons

6. Almost a miracle

7. The ghost in the machine.

advances in molecular biology over the past few decades have served only to deepen the mystery. So can life be explained by known physics and chemistry or do we need something fundamentally new? In this penetrating and wide-ranging new analysis world-renowned physicist and science communicator Paul Davies searches for answers in a field so new and fast-moving that it lacks a name a domain where computing chemistry quantum physics and nanotechnology intersect. At the heart of these diverse fields Davies explains is the concept of information: a quantity with the power to unify biology with physics transform technology and medicine and even to illuminate the age-old question of whether we are alone in the universe. From life's murky origins to the microscopic engines that run the cells of our bodies, The Demon in the Machine is a breath-taking journey across the landscape of physics biology logic and computing. Weaving together cancer and consciousness two headed worms and bird navigation Davies reveals how biological organisms garner and process information to conjure order out of chaos opening a window on the secret of life itself.

Penny Stocks for Dummies by Peter Leeds Wiley India Pvt. Ltd.: New Delhi, 2016 2nd ed 313p 9788126579037

332.6322 LEE / M0035551

Connect to Koha… Content: Part I: Getting Started with Penny Stocks 1. Getting to Know Penny Stocks 2. Deciding If Penny Stocks Are Right for

You 3. Buying and Selling Penny Stocks 4. Avoiding Promotions, Scams, and Bribes Part II: Research and Investment Strategies 5. Developing a Strategy 6. Doing Your Research 7. Picking a Winner 8. Penny Stock Manias Part III: Trading Penny Stocks 9. Trading Strategies 10. Fundamental Analysis 11. Financial Ratios: Comparing Apples to

Apples 12. The Abstract Review in Penny Stocks 13. Technical Analysis with Penny Stocks Part IV: The Part of Tens 14. Ten Rapid Result Tactics 15. Ten Trading Truths 16. Ten Key Considerations for Companies

Summary:

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Economic Policy: Theory and Practice by Agnes Benassy-Quere, Benoit Cœure, Pierre Jacquet and Jean Pisani-Ferry Oxford University Press: New Delhi, 2019 2nd ed 680p 9780190061692

338.9 BEN / M0035552

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Content: 1. Concepts 2. Issues 3. Interdepe

ndence 4. Fiscal

policy 5. Monetary

policy 6. Financial

Stability 7. Internati

onal financial integration and foreign-exchange policy

8. Tax policy

9. Growth Policies

Summary: Written by four recognized experts with senior experience in research and government this text is the first comprehensive survival kit for students and practitioners of economic policy. It is set to become an indispensable resource for everyone involved or interested in modern economic policy. Academic scholars willing to engage in policy discussions and students at graduate or advanced undergraduate levels will find it an essential bridge to the policy world. What makes the book unique is that it combines like no other facts-based analysis state-of the art theories and models and insights from first-hand policy experience at national and international levels. The book has grown out of ten years of experience teaching economic policy at the graduate level. It provides an intellectually coherent framework to understand the potentialities and limits of economic policy. It addresses positive dimensions (how do policies impact on modern economies?) normative dimensions (what should policymakers aim to achieve and against what should their action be judged?) and political-economy constraints (which are the limits and obstacles to public intervention?). It fills an important gap by reconciling in each major policy area stylized facts of recent economic history key questions faced by contemporary policymakers and essential lessons from theory which are captured and explained in a clear concise and self-contained way. All major areas of domestic and international policymaking are covered: fiscal policy monetary policy international finance and exchange-rate policy tax policy and long-term growth policies. The book concludes with a special chapter on the lessons of the financial crisis. The authors are intellectually non-partisan and they draw examples from various countries and experiences from emerging markets to developing economies shedding light when necessary on local specificities such as European Union rules and instruments. Economic Policy: Theory and Practice is the essential guide to economic policy in the new post-crisis context.

The Ultimate Sales Book : Master Account Management, Perfect Negotiation, Create Happy Customers by Christine Harvey, Grant Stewart, Peter Fleming and Di McLanachan Teach Yourself: London, 2018

426p 9781473684010

658.85 HAR / M0035553

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Content: Part I: Your Successful Selling Masterclass Introduction 1. Jump-start your success formula 2. Develop product and service expertise 3. Grasp the buying motives 4. Conquer objections: turn them to your advantage 5. Master successful presentations and closings 6. Create action-provoking systems 7. Implement motivation and support systems Part II: Your Successful Key Account Management Masterclass Introduction

Summary: The Ultimate Sales Book gives you everything you need to succeed in sales and account management. It is a dynamic collection of essential skills covering the topics that will help you make a seismic impact upon your performance - faster than you ever thought possible.

8. Know your customer 9. Analyse your growth opportunities 10. Measure profits by account 11. Plan for success 12. Negotiate to win/win 13. Control activity levels 14. Manage relationships Part III: Your Negotiation Skills Masterclass Introduction 15. Creating the right environment 16. Researching your objectives 17. People and places 18. Breaking the ice 19. The agenda 20. Conclude the deal 21. Learning from your experiences Part IV: Your Successful Customer Care Masterclass Introduction 22. Customer care is more than just saying `Have a nice day' 23. How do you measure up? 24. How do your customers think you measure up? 25. Deliver more than your customers expect 26. Excellence in communication 27. Attitude is everything 28. Plan to excel.

The Rich Get Richer And The Poor Get Prison. by Jeffrey Reiman and Paul Leighton Routledge: New York, 2017

258p 9780815366652

364.973 REI / M0035554

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Content: 1. Crime Control in

America: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure

2. A Crime by Any Other Name

3. And the Poor Get Prison

4. To the Vanquished Belong the Spoils: Who Is Winning the Losing War Against Crime?

Conclusion: Criminal Justice or Criminal Jus Appendix I: The Marxian Critique of Criminal Justice Appendix II: Between Philosophy and Criminology

Summary: For nearly 40 years this classic text has taken the issue of economic inequality seriously and asked: Why are our prisons filled with the poor? Why aren't the tools of the criminal justice system being used to protect Americans from predatory business practices and to punish well-off people who cause widespread harm? The Rich Get Richer shows readers that much of what goes on in the criminal justice system violates citizens' sense of basic fairness. It presents extensive evidence from mainstream data that the criminal justice system does not function in the way it says it does or in the way that readers believe it should. The authors develop a theoretical perspective from which readers might understand these failures and evaluate them morally and the to do it in a short and relatively inexpensive text written in plain language. New to this edition:

Presents recent data comparing the harms due to criminal activity with the harms of dangerous but not criminal corporate actions

Presents new data on recent crime rate declines which are paired with data on how public safety is not prioritized by the U.S. government

Updates statistics on crime victimization wealth and discrimination plus coverage of the increasing role of criminal justice fines and fees in generating revenue for government

Updates on the costs to society of white-collar crime

Updates and deepened analysis of why fundamental reforms are not undertaken

Streamlined and condensed prose for greater clarity

The Lost Decade 2008 To 2018 : How Indias Growth Story Devolved Into Growth Without A Story by Puja Mehra Penguin Random House India: Haryana, 2019

340p 9780670091836

954 MER / M0035555

Connect to Koha… Content: 1. The Shock

(2008-09) 2. A Recovery

Destroyed (2009-12)

3. A Slow Recovery Again (2012-15)

4. Another Recovery Destroyed (2016-18)

Summary: The Lost Decade (2008-2018) maps the years during which the India Growth Story collapsed, and examines the political context as to why the Indian economy never recovered in the years following the global financial meltdown. Before 2008 India was booming, cruising at 9 per cent-plus economic growth. The economic boom impacted a large section of Indians even if unequally. With sustained high growth over an extended period India could have achieved what economists call a take-off (rapid and self-sustained GDP growth). In the years after 2008 every time the country’s economy came close to returning to that trajectory and it actually did on three separate occasions during the last decade political events knocked it off course again. Two of these self-inflicted wounds can be traced to the UPA government’s term. The third was administered by the NDA government. Ten years were lost in negotiating setbacks and shocks that had nothing to do with the global financial meltdown or the economy per se. As a result the ‘India Growth Story devolved into Growth Without a Story.

India’s Aged: Needs and Vulnerabilities Ed by Udaya S. Mishra and S. Irudaya Rajan Orient Blackswan Private Limited: Hyderabad, 2017

254p 9789386689573

305.260954 IND / M0035556

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Content: 1. Changing

Economic Dependence of the Indian Elderly: Evidence From NSSO Surveys in 1983 and 2009-10

2. Dependency in the Elderly in India do circumstances matter

3. Population ageing and Household Health spending in India

Summary: India’s Aged: Needs and Vulnerabilities discuss the most vulnerable aspects of elderly life health and well-being—under the current conditions of economic and societal change. This volume explores (a) whether the nature of living arrangements has a bearing on the health outcomes of the elderly (b) whether the real or perceived economic dependence and financial vulnerability of the elderly is conditioned by translation of capabilities into functioning and (c) the implied healthcare costs which are defined as based on both actual needs and the elderly people’s own perception of their needs. Living arrangements have to be linked with the health and well-being of the elderly given the absence of universal social security, an inadequate formal system of care as well as the gradual erosion of the joint family system. While it is obvious that rising healthcare costs are a reality due to rising longevity this volume shows how population ageing contributes to rising healthcare costs along with projected healthcare costs in the future. In addition this volume addresses issues such as access to finance financial autonomy and financial inclusion of the elderly. Bringing together empirical explorations of prevailing realities and mechanisms that shape the well-being ill-being of the elderly in India, this volume will be indispensible for students and scholars of economics development studies and health and wellness studies.

The 1982–83 Bombay Textile Strike and the Unmaking of a Labourers’ City by Hub van Wersch, Speaking Tiger Publishing Pvt. Ltd.: New Delhi, 2019

575p 9789388874151

331.8928 WER / M0035557

Connect to Koha… Content: Part I: The Story of the Strike 1. Significance of the

textile industry 2. The strike 3. Strike strategies 4. Aftermath Part II: Coping with the strike 5. Five case studies 6. Material conditions 7. Changing views 8. The textile strike: an

overview

Summary: The Bombay Textile Strike of 1982–83 directly involving a quarter million workers lasted a year and a half and was in numbers and duration the greatest industrial cataclysm of its kind anywhere in the world. Yet ironically despite its magnitude and the fundamental issues involved scholarly attention has limited itself to specific aspects of the strike. This first full scale study based on intensive fieldwork and exceptionally rich wide ranging primary material ably fills this lacuna and in the process explodes several myths about the strike such as its essentially violent character. Hub van Wersch provides a detailed analytical account of the events leading up to the strike the strike itself and its aftermath against the wider backdrop of the Bombay textile industry and the Indian trade union tradition. He also examines how the workers coped with the strike their living conditions views attitudes and motivations based on an extensive sample survey.

India in Nuclear Asia: Evolution of Regional Forces, Perceptions and Policies by Yogesh Joshi and Frank o'donnell Orient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd.: Hyderabad, 2018

250p 9789352872855

355.0217 JOS / M0035558

Connect to Koha… Content: 1. Indian Nuclear Force

Development in 2018. 2. Pakistan s Nuclear Thought

and Posture: Implications for India.

3. Chinese Nuclear Thought and Posture: Implications for India.

4. The Doctrinal Background: Nuclear Deterrence in Indian Strategic Thought 1964-2003.

5. New Challenges for Indian Nuclear Doctrine: The Doctrinal Debate 2003 Present.

6. Indian Nonproliferation Policy: Approaches and Challenges in the Twenty-first Century.

Summary: This book explores the unique development of India as a nuclear weapons state since it conducted a series of nuclear tests in 1998. When India’s first nuclear doctrine was declared in 1999 revised in 2003 the Indian government portrayed an image of a responsible and restrained nuclear power. However the contemporary picture of India in the nuclear field is beginning to differ from these initial expectations. What explains India’s evolving nuclear posture? How is this technological drive complicating the questions of regional and global security? India in Nuclear Asia provides an overview of the Indian nuclear force as it stands in 2018 studies the implications that the nuclear postures of India’s two main adversaries Pakistan and China have on its nuclear strategy and the formation of India’s nuclear doctrine and challenges it faces. The book also explores India’s relations with countries such as Iran, North Korea and Syria and how these reveal India’s global nonproliferation policy approaches. The authors discuss key nuclear concepts and emphasise the need to combine reforms with greater public communication for nuclear management.

Straight Talk on Trade : Ideas for a Sane World Economy by Dani Rodrik, Princeton University Press: New Jersey, 2018

316p 9780691192666

382.71 ROD / M0035559

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Content: 1. A better balance 2. How nations work 3. Europe's struggles 4. Work

Industrialization and democracy

5. Economists and their models

6. The perils of economic consensus

7. Economists politics and ideas

8. Economics as policy innovation

9. What will not work 10. New rules for the

global economy 11. Growth policies for

the future 12. It's the politics

stupid!

Summary: An honest discussion of free trade and how nations can sensibly chart a path forward in today’s global economy. Not so long ago the nation-state seemed to be on its deathbed condemned to irrelevance by the forces of globalization and technology. Now it is back with a vengeance propelled by a groundswell of populists around the world. In Straight Talk on Trade Dani Rodrik an early and outspoken critic of economic globalization taken too far goes beyond the populist backlash and offers a more reasoned explanation for why our elites and technocrats obsession with hyper-globalization made it more difficult for nations to achieve legitimate economic and social objectives at home: economic prosperity financial stability and equity. Rodrik takes globalization’s cheerleaders to task not for emphasizing economics over other values but for practicing bad economics and ignoring the discipline’s own nuances that should have called for caution. He makes a case for a pluralist world economy where nation-states retain sufficient autonomy to fashion their own social contracts and develop economic strategies tailored to their needs. Rather than calling for closed borders or defending protectionists Rodrik shows how we can restore a sensible balance between national and global governance. Ranging over the recent experiences of advanced countries the Eurozone and developing nations Rodrik charts a way forward with new ideas about how to reconcile today’s inequitable economic and technological trends with liberal democracy and social inclusion. Deftly navigating the tensions among globalization national sovereignty and democracy Straight Talk on Trade presents an indispensable commentary on today’s world economy and its dilemmas and offers a visionary framework at a critical time when we need it most

Dynamics of Inclusive Classroom: Social Diversity Inequality and School Education in India Ed by Manoj Kumar Tiwary, Sanjay Kumar and Arvind Kumar Mishra Orient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd.: Hyderabad, 2017

327p 9789352870134

371.904 DYN / M0035580

Connect to Koha… Content:

Section I: Alignment Of Inclusion In Elementary Education

1. Inclusive Elementary Education in India: The Journey R. V. Vaidyanatha Ayyar

2. Social and Regional Inequality in Elementary Education in India: Retrospect and Prospect Madhumita Bandyopadhyay

Section II: Social Diversity And Learning Performance Disparity

3. Education of Equitable Quality: All Children Reading Dhir ihingran

4. Social Diversity and Learning Achievement:

Summary: Dynamics of Inclusive Classroom explores the challenges and possibilities of rendering classrooms more inclusive by contributing to a better understanding of educational needs of socially diverse children in India. The contributors to this volume show how in a world of rapid social political economic and educational changes social diversity inequalities and social exclusion inclusion are subjects of great import. Part of this process is the significant increase in the number of children from socially diverse backgrounds in the classroom. This increase calls for a better understanding of their needs and for processes

Contextualising Policies and Practices for Primary Schools in Rural Bihar Manoj KumarTiwary and Sanjay Kumar

Section III: Children In Unconventional Learning Settings

5. Rights Mobility and Social (Ingustice: The 2009 RTE Act and. Mobile Pastoralist Children's Education Deprivation Caroline Dyer

6. Educationally Excluded Street and Working Children: Financial Literacy and Life Skill Based Education as a Way Forward

Section IV: Learning English In The Labyrinth Of Contrasting Technologies

7. The Technology and Politics of Teaching English Nita Kumar

8. The Road to English: The Slow Migration of the EWS Child to Elite India Peggy Mohan

Section V: Pedagogy, Teacher Agency And The Operation Of Stereotypes

9. Cultural Marginality and Reproduction of Stereotypes: An Insider's View on Practices of School Vikas Gupta

10. Becoming a Critical Pedagogue: Teacher Agency and Critical Theory

that render classrooms more inclusive. In India the increased enrolment of socially diverse students requires us to give special attention to issues of inequality based on caste, class religion, gender language and region which affects children’s learning processes and outcomes. This volume is based on a great variety of research drawn from academic analyses policy formulation and classroom practices. Collectively the contributors argue that in order to render Indian classrooms inclusive the country needs to formulate a school education policy that would result in pedagogical preparedness to deal with the increased enrolment of historically marginalised and oppressed children from diverse backgrounds. Through case studies and field examples the authors also demonstrate the processes and practices through which learning can be made inclusive and democratic in Indian classrooms. This book offers fresh insights into diversity and contemporary educational practices in India and will be of considerable interest to student’s scholars practitioners and policy-makers involved in education development studies social work sociology history and public policy.

Indian Journalism in a New Era: Changes, Challenges, and Perspectives Ed by Shakuntala Rao Oxford University Press: New Delhi, 2019

384p 9780199490820

079.54 IND / M0035581

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Content: 1. Introduction Part I: History and Evolving Changes in Journalism 2. From Akhbarat to Print: The Hybridity of News Idioms in Early

Indian Journalism 3. An Inexorable Watchdog of Democracy: Theorizing India's

1975-1977 Press Censorship as a Watershed Media Moment Debashish

4. A Missing Voice: India in the Global News Space 5. An Incomplete Journalism Parivar: The Story of India's Missing

News Magazine Industry Part II: Social Media and e-Journalism 6. Internet Vernacularization, Mobilization and Journalism 7. The Media are Biased: Exploring Online Right Wing Responses

to Mainstream News Media in India Kalyani Chadha and Prasanth Bhat

8. 'Tweet First Work on the Story Later': Role of Social Media in Indian Journalism

9. Indian News Entrepreneurs and their Digital News Startups 10. Mapping the News App Ecosystem: Indian General Election

Mobile Apps and Emerging News Culture Part III: Marginalization and Journalism 11. Gender and Journalism: Selection and Framing of Rape News

in Indian Media 12. Media and Existing News Narratives in Kashmir Conflict 13. Covering the Green Beat: Environmental Journalism in India

Summary: In the ever changing information environment of the early 21st century citizens and journalists alike are eagerly adapting to new technologies. India is no different. The country's communication revolution in the post liberalization era had led to one of the largest media markets in the world. Given the breadth and scope of India's media there is little meaningful literature available about journalism practices. This book brings together contribution from 21 Indian and global scholars and journalists to write informatively and critically about Indian journalism today. The contributors in this volume focus on the changes in journalism practices within the context of India's long journalism history socio-economic conditions of the Indian state and minority politics. The volume is divided into four different sections each addressing one relevant aspect: history and evolving changes social media e-journalism marginalization pedagogy

Part IV: Ethics, Pedagogy, and Public Sphere in Journalism 14. Principle or Practice? Pedagogic Challenges in Indian

Journalism Education 15. The 24/7 News Cycle as a Specter of Neoliberal Violence 16. Journalistic Subcultures: Rules, Values, Routines, and Norms

of English-Language and Hindi-Language Media 17. Journalism and Ethics: Indian Media Mines the Private

ethics and public sphere. Underlying the chapters is a focus on how to address and analyze the enormity and precipitous changes taking place in Indian journalism media technology and global relations.

Displaying India’s Heritage: Archaeology and the Museum Movement in Colonial India by Madhuparna Roychowdhury Orient Black Swan Pvt. Ltd.: Hyderbad, 2015

386p 9789352872633

069.954 ROY / M0035584

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Content: 1. The Culture of

History 2. Indian Museum:

The First 100 Years 3. Archaeology and

Museum-Making in Colonial India

4. Archaeology in the Indian Museum

5. History-Men and Museum-Makers: Bengal in the Early Twentieth Century

6. Locality Province and the Nation’: The Museum Story

Summary: Displaying India’s Heritage describes the history of museum-making in the Indian subcontinent in the 1800s and 1900s with special emphasis on the experience of Bengal. It details the connection between the museum movement and the broader political and cultural environment of the time. The central discussion focuses on the colonial Indian Museum in Calcutta which began as a natural history collection and soon became a repository of archaeological artefacts from across the subcontinent. The emerging contest between imperialism and nationalism shaped the visualisation in the display boxes here. In describing this history the book also highlights the complex relationship between knowledge and power. During the period of high nationalism when regional histories often blended with mythical narratives became popular scientific history writing placed an emphasis on archaeological knowledge. Local museums began asserting their right over excavated artefacts and princely states presented the pre-eminent position of their families through palace museums through these histories of provincial and local museums the book shows how museum-making was intimately tied to competing political loyalties and identities. It presents a convincing case to consider museums as a modern public sphere where the territorial and cultural bases of nationhood were negotiated.