Articles in "Indian Government & Politics"

Stating the Problem

Contemporary politics in India is characterized by issues and movements that seek to challenge and re-define the meaning of both democracy and development. The purpose of a development strategy that involves hardships, dispossession and displacement, supposedly in the pursuit of the development is being interrogated. How can a strategy of development be democratic if it does not take into account the sufferings that it brings upon a huge section of the citizens of India?

 Federal Institutions

LegislaturesRight to Primary Education Legislation

a. Federal management of natural resources

Revision of Royalty Rates on Coal

The West Bengal Government has blamed the

Centre for its partisan behaviour and for denial

of coal royalty amounting to over Rs 4,800 crore.

The new revised royalty rates will be announced

early in 2011. A new study group has been

constituted under the Chairmanship of the

Additional Secretary to the Ministry Of Coal, Alok

Petri, for considering the issue of next revision of

INTERPRETIVE THEORY

Chanakya's Education

In my personal opinion one of the greatest treatises to be written on education is Emile by the French Philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau.  The work was condemned because it stood for revolutionary principles that were inconvenient to the Catholic Church and to European society in general.  However over a period of time there has been recognition of this work and any teacher worth his/her salt should have a look at it.  In this context of course, the book and its contents have an immediacy which is even more poignant, because in this work of Rousseau that one sees the true mea