This volume brings together essays that discuss and contextualise Gandhi's ideas on pluralism, religious identity, non-violence, satyagraha, and modernity. It interrogates the epistemic foundations of Gandhian thinking and weltanschauung, identifies diverse strands within his arguments, and gives it new meaning in contemporary society. This book focuses on Gandhi's engagements with religious, political, and social conflicts; his reflections on faith and modernity; and his argumentative dialogues with Mohammad Ali Jinnah and B. R. Ambedkar. It provides critical insights into Gandhi's philosophy and suggests ways of engaging with his ethical and moral ideas in contemporary intellectual and political discourse. Comparing and contrasting Gandhian thought and strategies with contemporary issues and conceptions of religious freedom, conflict resolution, and liberalism, the volume reformulates and reconstitutes his intellectual and political legacy. This book points to new and possible future directions of research on Gandhian concepts and will be useful for scholars in the fields of political science, Gandhian studies, sociology, and philosophy.

This volume brings together essays that discuss and contextualise Gandhi's ideas on pluralism, religious identity, non-violence, satyagraha, and modernity. It interrogates the epistemic foundations of Gandhian thinking and weltanschauung, identifies diverse strands within his arguments, and gives it new meaning in contemporary society. This book focuses on Gandhi's engagements with religious, political, and social conflicts; his reflections on faith and modernity; and his argumentative dialogues with Mohammad Ali Jinnah and B. R. Ambedkar. It provides critical insights into Gandhi's philosophy and suggests ways of engaging with his ethical and moral ideas in contemporary intellectual and political discourse. Comparing and contrasting Gandhian thought and strategies with contemporary issues and conceptions of religious freedom, conflict resolution, and liberalism, the volume reformulates and reconstitutes his intellectual and political legacy. This book points to new and possible future directions of research on Gandhian concepts and will be useful for scholars in the fields of political science, Gandhian studies, sociology, and philosophy.

The book highlights applications of hybrid materials in solar energy systems, lithium ion batteries, electromagnetic shielding, sensing of pollutants and water purification. A hybrid material is defined as a material composed of an intimate mixture of inorganic components, organic components, or both types of components. In the last few years, a tremendous amount of attention has been given towards the development of materials for efficient energy harvesting; nanostructured hybrid materials have also been gaining significant advances to provide pollutant free drinking water, sensing of environmental pollutants, energy storage and conservation. Separately, intensive work on high performing polymer nanocomposites for applications in the automotive, aerospace and construction industries has been carried out, but the aggregation of many fillers, such as clay, LDH, CNT, graphene, represented a major barrier in their development. Only very recently has this problem been overcome by fabrication and applications of 3D hybrid nanomaterials as nanofillers in a variety of polymers. This book, Hybrid Nanomaterials, examines all the recent developments in the research and specially covers the following subjects: 3D hybrid nanomaterials nanofillers Hybrid nanostructured materials for development of advanced lithium batteries High performing hybrid nanomaterials for supercapacitor applications Nano-hybrid materials in the development of solar energy applications Application of hybrid nanomaterials in water purification Advanced nanostructured materials in electromagnetic shielding of radiations Preparation, properties and application of hybrid nanomaterials in sensing of environmental pollutants Development of hybrid fillers/polymer nanocomposites for electronic applications High performance hybrid filler reinforced epoxy nanocomposites State-of-the-art overview of elastomer/hybrid filler nanocomposites

The twentieth century has brought enormous changes in the physicist's understanding of the fundamental nature of the physical world. These changes were ushered in the century's first decade, with the advent of relativity and quantum theory. With advancing knowledge, the mystery surrounding the ultimate nature of the physical world has deepened, not lessened, and the search for the Holy Grail of a 'Grand Unified Theory' or 'Theory of Everything' continues. This book reveals, in considerable detail, the concepts that have arisen as a result of that search -- the 'state of art'. Contents: Introduction to the Theory of Manifolds; Tensors and Riemannian; Einstein's theory of gravity; Some important modifications of Einstein's theory of gravity; Interaction of quantum fields with classical gravity; Gauge theory of gravity; Kaluza-Kleii Theory.

This book is written in a simple manner and is very easy to understand. It describes the theory with examples step by step. It contains the description of writing tehse steps in programs in very easy and understanble manner.

One of the salient features of the agrarian economy of India is preponderance of small and marginal farmers. Technological break-through in agriculture has created a great potential for increasing agricultural production. To step up the tempo of agricultural production it is imperative that the farmers must be provided adequate, timely and less costly credit to meet heavy requirement of modern technology in agriculture. RRBs have come in a big way to provide credit to farmers. With respect to crop production, the crop loan has been more popular among the small and marginal farmers because of its purposes and nature for which it is granted. The crop loan facility to them is supposed to have had a positive impact on crop production, net income and employment on their farms. Therefore, credit widening and deepening efforts should be made by improving credit absorption capacity through hassle-free loaning process, augmentation of technology flow and providing supporting infrastructure to the small and marginal farmers with inadequate funds for crop production.

The rural people of India also constitute tribal people, who are the children of nature and who mainly depend on agriculture & allied activities for their livelihood. There are approximately 200 million tribal people in the entire globe. India has the largest concentration of tribal people than anywhere in the world except in Africa. There are 0.256 million tribe resides in the Uttarakhand. Agriculture is the only source of food security therefore to have sustainable livelihood security & improve the standard of living, the farm families need to generate additional income in a sustainable manner from the available farm resources .The traditional economy of tribes is for subsistence only not for profit. Tribal farms are characterized by small & fragmented land holdings, low productivity of crop and livestock, disguised unemployment, poor income and low risk bearing ability. Thus it is important to improve the farm income and the standard of living of tribes through the practice of better farming system. The major policy implication is there exist sufficient scope to increase the farm income through reallocation of existing farm resources optimally under all farming systems.

Healthcare is fundamental to national progress in any sphere. In terms of resources for economic development, nothing can be considered of higher importance than the health of the people which is a measure of their energy, capacity and potential for productive work. Health is a positive state of well being in which the harmonious development of physical and mental capacities of the individual lead to the enjoyment of a rich and full life. It is not a negative state of mere absence of disease. Health further implies complete adjustment of the individual to his total environment, physical and social. Considerable achievements have been made since Independence in 1947 to improve health standards in the country. Nevertheless, problems abound. India has to deal with rising costs of healthcare and growing expectations of the people. The challenge of quality health services in remote rural regions has to be urgently met. AIDS, cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease (CVD) and stroke are not only serious health problems but also pose formidable development issues on account of their potential adverse impact on productivity and hence socio-economic development. The present volume comprises 26 research papers - contributed by psychologists, psychiatrists, home scientists, AIDS counsellors, social workers and human resources (HM) experts - which provide deep psycho-social and neurological insights into various dimensions of healthcare challenges being faced by India. Out of 26 papers, 15 papers deal with the pressing problem of HIV/AIDS and the remaining 11 with other physical and mental disorders including cancer, diabetes, depression, inhalant abuse, sleep problems, examination stress and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). These well-researched papers provide valuable information on management of healthcare problems in India.