Literature & Trade Catalogue 2016–17

GENERAL
GENERAL
The Country of First Boys
Amartya Sen
9780199453252 | HB | 2015 | `550
The Country of First Boys is Amartya Sen’s intellectual journey through the past and present
to seek an understanding of India’s history and the demands of its future. The themes of
these essays include the hardened and extreme nature of inequality in India, and what can be
done about it. One of the many rewards of good schooling—denied to most
Indians—includes the understanding that India is an integral part of a world civilization.
In this collection, Sen examines justice, identity, deprivation, inequalities, gender politics,
education, the media, and the importance of getting your priorities right. These are
accessible yet pioneering essays that hold the kernel of many of his seminal works.
daughter, Tulsi Badrinath.
Chaturvedi Badrinath
Unity of Life and Other Essays
Tulsi Badrinath (ed.)
9780199465187 | PB | 2016 | `450
Chaturvedi Badrinath (1933–
2010), a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, 2009, for
The Mahabharata, was a passionate scholar of Indian philosophy. A former civil servant, he
lectured on dharma and its application in modern times.
In 1995, he was invited by the Times of India to contribute essays on Indian philosophy and
thought. These widely acclaimed essays range over perceptions of the self and the other;
ways of ordering society in Jainism, Islam, and Christianity; the roots of violence; and the
quest for truth and peace. These essays are brought together in this collection by Badrinath’s
Amartya Sen teaches economics and philosophy at Harvard University, and was earlier Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He
was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 and the Bharat Ratna in 1999.
Tulsi Badrinath is an acclaimed writer and a trained Bharatanatyam dancer. Her novels
were longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize.
Meeting Lives and Man of a Thousand Chances
Green Signals
Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India
Jairam Ramesh
This book chronicles the ‘1991 moment’ in India’s environmental decision-making, telling
the story of how, for the first time, the doors of the environment ministry were opened to
voices hitherto unheard into the policy-making process.
It addresses the challenges involved in trying to ensure economic growth with ecological
security. Using speaking orders on high-profile projects, and notes and letters to the high
officials, Jairam Ramesh gives an insight into the debates, struggles, challenges, and
obstacles to bringing environmental considerations into the mainstream of political and
economic decision-making.
Why India Is Not a Great Power (Yet)
Bharat Karnad
India has been feted as a great power since its economic liberalization in the early 1990s.
Numerous books analyse India’s ascent in terms of its rapid economic growth and the ‘soft
power’ it exerts. However, India can also take an alternative path combining hard power,
geostrategy, and realpolitik to rise to greatness.
In this book, Karnad delves exclusively into these aspects of hard power and the problems
associated with them. He incisively analyses the deficits in the country’s military capabilities,
the absence of political vision, its unimaginative foreign and military policies, and explains
why India is not a great power yet.
Jairam Ramesh
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is hair of the Future Earth Engagement Committee, a research platform on
global sustainability and a member of the Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of the Parliament of India.
9780199457526 | HB | 2015 | `850
Bharat Karnad is professor of National Security Studies, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi,
India.
9780199459223 | HB | 2015 | `875
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