http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4166 Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:33:53 GMT 2026-03-14T00:33:53Z http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4737 Title: Contributors Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4737 2005-12-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4736 Title: Cultural Issues in Development Authors: Mehta, Rani Abstract: Culture is encompassing and in a sense a reflection of nature. Culture has been defined by Herskovits ( 1952) as a Man made part of the environment. Contact of technology created by Man, whether primitive or advanced with nature creates culture. In other words, technology conditions environment and is also conditioned by the environment and the contact of the two, that is, technology and environment, leads to the development of culture. Description: Page- 139 to 159 Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4736 2005-12-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4735 Title: Cultural Practice and Communicative Action: Of Differences and Solidarity Authors: Bhaduri, Saugata Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to examine how cultural practice and communicative action in their diverse forms can make meaningful intervention in the problems that beset a country like India today. Sandwiched between the residues of the colonial project of modernisation, which monologically aim at casting all cultural specificities in an Enlightenment European mould, and the easy reaction to the same in an unproblematised regression to some 'authentic' and essential cultural past, the social theorist today wonders if there can be a third alternative, one that would be critical and yet not reactionary. Description: Page- 127 to 137 Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4735 2005-12-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4734 Title: Towards a Positive Sum: New Dimensions of Indo-Pak Relationship in the 21st Century Authors: Kumar, Madhurendra Abstract: A challenge facing IR students is to make sense of fast-moving events and trends in the region-to determine whether they are favourable or unfavourable to conflict resolution and peace especially in relations between India and Pakistan. Another challenge is to determine how to take advantage of the good trends-or alternately, minimise the damage from the bad ones. There is a need to look at the dynamics at work and then to devise a roadmap that roughly represents the reality, explains casual relationships that influence current events, helps predict the future, prioritises available facts, and shows a path for achieving goals. Description: Page- 115 to 125 Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4734 2005-12-01T00:00:00Z