Citizen Delhi

Author : Sheila Dikshit
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789386826480

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Citizen Delhi by Sheila Dikshit Pdf

The girl who loved cycling along the tree-lined avenues of a brand new Lutyens' Delhi could never have dreamt that five decades later she would govern, and transform, Delhi as its chief minister – not once, but thrice consecutively. When a politician like Sheila Dikshit, with a career spanning over three decades, chooses to let the reader get a glimpse of her life's journey, the opportunity brings along an element of surprise. In a fascinating account of her life, contoured along the life of the nation and her political party at critical junctures, she creates a richly patterned universe with deft touches, seamlessly moving between the home and the world, the past and the present. Be it encounters with politics, which she terms 'life at its barest' or the ups and downs of a household, what shines through is the portrait of a modern woman determined to face any eventuality with fortitude, and a deep sense of duty. Interestingly, she never wanted to be in politics, but destiny willed otherwise – a destiny shaped by her liberal upbringing in a Punjabi household. Brought up to be independent, she chose her life partner from another part of India. And that started it all. As the wife of an IAS officer and daughter-in-law of well-known freedom fighter and politician, Uma Shankar Dikshit, with his long association with the Nehru–Gandhi family, she saw governance from both ends. When she began assisting her father-in-law from 1969, her up-close view of politics eventually became a springboard for her own entry into the arena in December 1984, inaugurating a 30-year-long career in politics. The narrative foregrounds a question that the author considers crucial for democracy – how does one deal with the constant tussle between the dictates of governance and the here-and-now preoccupations of party politics?

Author : Uditi Sen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108425612

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Citizen Refugee by Uditi Sen Pdf

Explores how refugees were used as agents of nation-building in India, leading to gendered and caste-ridden policies of rehabilitation.

Author : Dipankar Gupta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351244176

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From 'People' to 'Citizen' by Dipankar Gupta Pdf

From ‘People’ to ‘Citizen’ brings together social theory with policy practice to enlarge our understanding of the difference that democracy makes to the life of a nation. Unlike nationalism, democracy takes our attention away from the past to the future by focusing on the specific concerns of ‘citizenship’. Historical victories or defeats, blood and soil are now nowhere as relevant as the creation of a foundational base where individuals have equal, and quality, access to health, education, and even urban services. The primary consideration, therefore, is on empowering ‘citizens’ as a common category and not ‘people’ of any specific community or class. When citizens precede all other considerations, the notion of the ‘public’ too gets its fullest expression. Differences between citizens are not denied, in fact encouraged, but only after achieving a basic unity first. This book argues that the call of citizenship not only advances democracy, but social science as well. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

Author : Rajesh Tandon,Mohini Kak
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8180694305

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Citizen Participation and Democratic Governance, in Our Hands by Rajesh Tandon,Mohini Kak Pdf

Contributed articles with special reference to India..

Author : Jorge E. Hardoy,David Satterthwaite
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134157389

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Squatter Citizen by Jorge E. Hardoy,David Satterthwaite Pdf

'one of the best contemporary statements of what is occurring in the growth of urban places in the Third World' Environment and Planning 'a book that should enjoy a wide appeal: as a plea for adoption of the 'popular approach'; as a text for student use; and as an accessible and stimulating guide to the urban problems of developing countries' Progress in Human Geography 'a very readable book, containing a lot of well documented information The book is especially relevant for interested lay people but many professionals will benefit from having a copy on the bookshelf' Third World Planning Review The true planners and builders of Third World cities are the poor. They organize, plan and build with no help from professionals. Drawing on their own skills, making the best use of limited resources and forming their own community organizations, they account for most new city housing. But the city, which thrives on their cheap labour, rejects them. Their houses are deemed illegal, because they do not conform to regulations and they are called 'squatters', because they cannot afford to buy sites legally. Their right to water, education and health care, even to vote, are often denied. This book challenges many common assumptions about the urban Third World - for example that urban citizens live in very large cities and that cities are growing rapidly, or that city dwellers benefit from 'urban bias' in government and aid policies. It is about the lives of the 'squatter citizens' and the problems they face in their struggle for survival.

Author : Sita Sekhar
Publisher : Public Affairs Centre
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Public utilities
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Voices from the Capital: A Report Card on Public Service in Delhi by Sita Sekhar Pdf

Author : Disha Experts
Publisher : Disha Publications
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789389645668

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Delhi Police Head Constable Exam 2020 Guide by Disha Experts Pdf

Author : Richard Worthington,Mikko Rask,Lammi Minna
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317972730

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Citizen Participation in Global Environmental Governance by Richard Worthington,Mikko Rask,Lammi Minna Pdf

On one day in 2009, in thirty-eight countries around the world, 4,000 ordinary citizens gathered to discuss the future of climate policy. This project, 'WWViews', was the first-ever global democratic deliberation – an attempt to enable ordinary people to reach informed decisions on and impact the global policy process. This book – which analyzes the experiences and lessons from this ground-breaking event – marks the beginning of a new kind of democratic politics, providing practical lessons on how to increase the impact of global deliberation projects within the media and on official policy processes. The authors explore important themes for participatory approaches from the local to the global: the role of deliberation within global governance methodology and practice participant selection; policy impacts engaging the media how policy culture affects deliberation uptake capacity building and knowledge transfer process evaluation content and argumentation analysis gender, race and class aspects. The global aims of the 'WWViews project', along with the opportunity to evaluate the same process in different national and cultural contexts, makes this a hugely valuable and informative study for all those interested in democratic deliberation and environmental governance from the small to the international scale.

Author : Edward Vickers,Krishna Kumar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135007270

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Constructing Modern Asian Citizenship by Edward Vickers,Krishna Kumar Pdf

In many non-Western contexts, modernization has tended to be equated with Westernization, and hence with an abandonment of authentic indigenous identities and values. This is evident in the recent history of many Asian societies, where efforts to modernize – spurred on by the spectre of foreign domination – have often been accompanied by determined attempts to stamp national variants of modernity with the brand of local authenticity: ‘Asian values’, ‘Chinese characteristics’, a Japanese cultural ‘essence’ and so forth. Highlighting (or exaggerating) associations between the more unsettling consequences of modernization and alien influence has thus formed part of a strategy whereby elites in many Asian societies have sought to construct new forms of legitimacy for old patterns of dominance over the masses. The apparatus of modern systems of mass education, often inherited from colonial rulers, has been just one instrument in such campaigns of state legitimation. This book presents analyses of a range of contemporary projects of citizenship formation across Asia in order to identify those issues and concerns most central to Asian debates over the construction of modern identities. Its main focus is on schooling, but also examines other vehicles for citizenship-formation, such as museums and the internet; the role of religion (in particular Islam) in debates over citizenship and identity in certain Asian societies; and the relationship between state-centred identity discourses and the experience of increasingly ‘globalized’ elites. With chapters from an international team of contributors, this interdisciplinary volume will appeal to students and scholars of Asian culture and society, Asian education, comparative education and citizenship.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24502942366

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Local boards of health in the State of New York by Anonim Pdf

Author : New York (State). Department of Health
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Health boards
ISBN : UOM:39015055378791

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Local Boards of Health in the State of New York by New York (State). Department of Health Pdf

Author : John Gaventa,Rosemary McGee
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848138322

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Citizen Action and National Policy Reform by John Gaventa,Rosemary McGee Pdf

How does citizen activism win changes in national policy? Which factors help to make myriad efforts by diverse actors add up to reform? What is needed to overcome setbacks, and to consolidate the smaller victories? These questions need answers. Aid agencies have invested heavily in supporting civil society organizations as change agents in fledgling and established democracies alike. Evidence gathered by donors, NGOs and academics demonstrates how advocacy and campaigning can reconfigure power relations and transform governance structures at the local and global levels. In the rush to go global or stay local, however, the national policy sphere was recently neglected. Today, there is growing recognition of the key role of champions of change inside national governments, and the potential of their engagement with citizen activists outside. These advances demand a better understanding of how national and local actors can combine approaches to simultaneously work the levers of change, and how their successes relate to actors and institutions at the international level. This book brings together eight studies of successful cases of citizen activism for national policy changes in South Africa, Morocco, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Turkey, India and the Philippines. They detail the dynamics and strategies that have led to the introduction, change or effective implementation of policies responding to a range of rights deficits. Drawing on influential social science theory about how political and social change occurs, the book brings new empirical insights to bear on it, both challenging and enriching current understandings.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Public Affairs Centre
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Are They Being Served? Citizen Report Card on Public Services for the Poor in Peri-Urban Areas of Bangalore by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bhashani Foundation
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781453573136

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Searching for Bhasani Citizen of the World by Bhashani Foundation Pdf

The book is about Mawlana Bhasani who is a South Asian legend. He was an earnest leader; a Sufi pir turned revolutionary politician. He was a contemporary of the great South Asian politicians Pandit Nehru, Mawlana A.K. Azad, and Quid-Azam Jinnah. Bhasani was born in Pabna, in a part of Bengal that is now Bangladesh. He lived in hut all his life. For his belief in universalism and leading a selfless life, he was dubbed by some the “Gandhi of Bangladesh.” These ideas and other facets of Bhasani’s life and thought are examined in parallel with his struggle for protecting the environment of the region.

Author : Joya Chatterji
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789357081733

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Shadows at Noon by Joya Chatterji Pdf

Shadows at Noon is an ambitious synthesis of decades of research and scholarship which explores the key strands of South Asian history in the twentieth century with clarity and authority. Unlike other narrative histories of the subcontinent that concentrate exclusively on politics, here food, leisure and the household are given equal importance to discussions of nationhood, the development of the state and patterns of migration. While it tells the subcontinent's story from the British Raj to independence and partition and on to the forging of the modern nations of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, the book's structure is thematic rather than chronological. Each of the chapters illuminates on overarching theme or sphere that has shaped South Asia over the course of the century. This format allows the reader to explore particular issues such as the changing character of nationalism or food consumption over time and in depth. Shadows at Noon is a bold, innovative and personal work that pushes back against standard narratives of 'inherent' differences between India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Its purpose is to make contemporary South Asia intelligible to readers who are fascinated by the subcontinent's cultural vibrancy and diversity but are often perplexed by its social and political makeup. And it illuminates the many aspects that its people have in common rather than what divides them.