Author: G Venkata Prasad Publisher: Notion Press ISBN: Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 228
Book Description
India has a promising opportunity to emerge as a dominant Economic Power. To accomplish this objective, two key prerequisites are essential: the infusion of greater investments to develop world-class infrastructure, and the establishment of a strong construction industry capable of executing large-scale projects within set timelines. "Building New India" is an all-encompassing publication that delves into the potential of India's construction industry, considering the significant impetus provided by the Indian government. Authored by G Venkata Prasad, a respected figure with over four decades of experience in the Indian construction industry, the book offers an analysis of the industry's current state and a roadmap for its future trajectory. It addresses critical concerns such as delays and cost overruns, skilled labour shortages, adoption of innovative technologies, climate change mitigation, and the development of efficient contracting capabilities. Additionally, the book places considerable emphasis on nurturing future leaders who can successfully spearhead major infrastructure projects. Drawing inspiration from global best practices across diverse domains, "Building New India" encourages India to set ambitious goals and overhaul its work practices. It underscores the importance of collaboration among all stakeholders to enhance the industry's efficiency and leverage its immense potential for the nation's advancement.
Author: Jon T. Lang Publisher: Orient Blackswan ISBN: 9788178240176 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 228
Book Description
In Lucid Language That Speaks To Laymen And Architects Alike, This Book Provides A History Of Twentieth Century Architecture In India. It Examines In Detail The Early Influences On Indian Architecture Both Of Movements Like The Bauhaus As Well As Prominent Individuals Like Habib Rehman, Jawaharlal Nehru, Frank Lloyd Wright And Le Corbusier.
Author: Rotem Geva Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 1503632121 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 464
Book Description
Delhi, one of the world's largest cities, has faced momentous challenges—mass migration, competing governing authorities, controversies over citizenship, and communal violence. To understand the contemporary plight of India's capital city, this book revisits one of the most dramatic episodes in its history, telling the story of how the city was remade by the twin events of partition and independence. Treating decolonization as a process that unfolded from the late 1930s into the mid-1950, Rotem Geva traces how India and Pakistan became increasingly territorialized in the imagination and practice of the city's residents, how violence and displacement were central to this process, and how tensions over belonging and citizenship lingered in the city and the nation. She also chronicles the struggle, after 1947, between the urge to democratize political life in the new republic and the authoritarian legacy of colonial rule, augmented by the imperative to maintain law and order in the face of the partition crisis. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Geva reveals the period from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s as a twilight time, combining features of imperial framework and independent republic. Geva places this liminality within the broader global context of the dissolution of multiethnic and multireligious empires into nation-states and argues for an understanding of state formation as a contest between various lines of power, charting the links between different levels of political struggle and mobilization during the churning early years of independence in Delhi.
Author: Shail Kumar Publisher: Ons Group Press ISBN: 9780996616805 Category : Education, Higher Languages : en Pages : 229
Book Description
Do you care about India and its future? If so, then this recently published and highly acclaimed book is a must read. The author makes the case that we can build a Golden India by unleashing the potential of its 1.3 billion people and transforming its higher education system. Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande, Trustee, Deshpande Foundation, and Life Member, MIT Corporation has written a foreword for the book. Buy a copy for yourself. Give a gift to your friends. Donate to a library.
Author: Indian National Congress Publisher: Hassell Street Press ISBN: 9781014145192 Category : Languages : en Pages : 120
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Author: Vivek Chibber Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400840775 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 355
Book Description
Why were some countries able to build "developmental states" in the decades after World War II while others were not? Through a richly detailed examination of India's experience, Locked in Place argues that the critical factor was the reaction of domestic capitalists to the state-building project. During the 1950s and 1960s, India launched an extremely ambitious and highly regarded program of state-led development. But it soon became clear that the Indian state lacked the institutional capacity to carry out rapid industrialization. Drawing on newly available archival sources, Vivek Chibber mounts a forceful challenge to conventional arguments by showing that the insufficient state capacity stemmed mainly from Indian industrialists' massive campaign, in the years after Independence, against a strong developmental state. Chibber contrasts India's experience with the success of a similar program of state-building in South Korea, where political elites managed to harness domestic capitalists to their agenda. He then develops a theory of the structural conditions that can account for the different reactions of Indian and Korean capitalists as rational responses to the distinct development models adopted in each country. Provocative and marked by clarity of prose, this book is also the first historical study of India's post-colonial industrial strategy. Emphasizing the central role of capital in the state-building process, and restoring class analysis to the core of the political economy of development, Locked in Place is an innovative work of theoretical power that will interest development specialists, political scientists, and historians of the subcontinent.
Author: Bharati Mukherjee Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 0618646531 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 341
Book Description
Taken under the wing of an expat teacher for her ambition and talent, Anjali Bose hopes to escape unfavorable prospects and falls in with a crowd of young people in Bangalore, where she endeavors to confront her past and reinvent herself.
Author: K. Chowdhury Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230117090 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 404
Book Description
This book looks critically at various constructions of the Indian citizen from 1991 to 2007, the period when economic liberalization became established government policy. Examining differing images of citizenship and its rules and rituals, Chowdhury sheds light on the complex interactions between culture and political economy in the New India.
Author: G Venkata Prasad
Author: Sadyanta Rawal
Author: Jon T. Lang
Author: Rotem Geva
Author: Shail Kumar
Author: Indian National Congress
Author: India. Planning Commission
Author: Vivek Chibber
Author: Bharati Mukherjee
Author: K. Chowdhury