For god's sake : religious charity and social development in India

Democratizing Development: Struggles for Rights and Social Justice in India 9352807278, 9789352807277

Since its inception, the Indian model of development has the twin objectives of economic development and social justice

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Mission and Tamil Society; Social and Religious Change in South India (1840-1900) 070070292X

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The Government of Social Life in Colonial India: Liberalism, Religious Law, and Women's Rights 9781107010376, 2012000798

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Religious Division and Social Conflict: The Emergence of Hindu Nationalism in Rural India 9781138102736, 9781315146959

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The Government of Social Life in Colonial India: Liberalism, Religious Law, and Women's Rights 9781107010376, 1107010373

This book analyses religious law in colonial India, exploring how it encouraged gender equality and a rethinking of the

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Police and Political Development in India 9781400878499

As a pervasive and relatively modernized element of Indian society, the police are potentially a powerful vanguard in th

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Transition and Development in India 9781136705731, 9780415934855

According to Nehru, the transition from a backward agricultural society to a modern industrialized society was the only

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For Humanity's Sake: The Bildungsroman in Russian Culture 9781442696082

Positing the classic Russian novel as an inheritor of the Enlightenment's key values — including humanity, self-per

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Development and Democracy in India 9781685857493

This broad, historically grounded study examines the relationship between democratic governance and economic development

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Charity, challenge, and change: religious dimensions of the mid-nineteenth-century women's movement in Germany 9780313254017

This book examines the religious context from which emerged the German women's movement in the mid-nineteenth centu

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