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Nine contributors analyze state-society relations in India. A new epilogue covers the Rajiv Gandhi period, leading up to the important elections of December 1989. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backli

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The success of the agricultural policy adopted in 1965 has given India the hope of escaping from its circle of poverty. At the same time the increased rate of economic development seems to have exacerbated social tensions and accentuated disparities that may eventually undermine the foundations of rural political stability. Originally published in

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Mr. Harrison warns that unless a new democratic lender arises when Nehru steps down, India will face Balkanization or authoritarian control based on army force. His disturbing book "is a study of enduring value, fully annotated and indexed and blessed by two of the finest maps in any recent work of scholarship." Originally published in 1960. The

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Mr. Heimsath presents here an intellectual history of the social reform movement among Hindus in India in the century between Ram Mohun Roy and Gandhi. Treating separately each major province in which reform movements flourished, he shows the many ways in which social reform was effected. Originally published in 1964. The Princeton Legacy Library

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Tracing the history of the Indian National Congress from its founding in 1885 until about 1905, Professor McLane analyzes its efforts to build a national community and to obtain fundamental reforms from the British. In so doing, he extends our understanding of the dynamics of Indian pluralism. In its first two decades of existence, the Congress fai

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"Written under the auspices of the Center for International and Strategic Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles."

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"Written under the auspices of the Center for International and Strategic Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles."

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Introduces the concept of indifference pricing in models of discrete time and finite state spaces where duality theory can be exploited readily. This book also discusses utility indifference pricing for diffusion models, and addresses problems of optimal design of derivatives.

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Presents an ethnographic account of Pan-Maya cultural activism. This book shows that Pan-Mayanism reflects diverse local, national, and international influences. It explores the movement's attempts to interweave these varied strands into political programs to promote human and cultural rights for Guatemala's indigenous majority.

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In this volume, the author argues for a realistic view in which people have a limited understanding of their environment. He seeks to show how the cumulative experiences of many individuals coalesce over time into customs, norms and institutions that govern economic and social life. He develops a theory that predicts how such institutions evolve and characterizes their welfare properties.

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Individual-based models are widely used tool for ecology. This book provides the treatment of individual-based modeling and its use to develop theoretical understanding of how ecological systems work, an approach the authors call "individual-based ecology."

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Although observers of the Pakistani economy are well aware that a small number of family groups, popularly called "the twenty-two families," dominates the industrial structure of the country, the actual effects of this concentration of economic power on income distribution and on other areas of widespread social and political concern arc less well

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Focusing on urban development and the influence of urbanization on industrialization, this volume reflects a radical rethinking of the traditional approaches to the development of cities. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from

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Eric Schiff analyzes two countries, widely known for their sophisticated industrial development, that are unique in having had no national patent protection for appreciable periods in their recent history. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-o

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Federal regulatory agencies are often assumed to be excessively responsive to and influenced by the corporate interests they are supposed to regulate. On the basis of direct empirical examination, Paul Quirk challenges this assumption as it relates to four United States federal regulatory agencies. Through a series of interviews with high-level off

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Challenges arguments that expanding inequality is the natural, perhaps necessary, accompaniment of economic growth. This book stresses that economic fortune depends more on social circumstances than on IQ, which is itself a product of society.