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"This book provides a revamped, transformative, and fiscally sustainable developmental agenda for India to radically improve the well-being and livelihoods of its citizens. Grounded in a 'people first' approach, this alternative agenda focuses on seven vital development and inter-connected areas, including health, education, food and nutrition, child development, gender, livelihood and jobs, and urbanization. The volume highlights the systemic issues plaguing these sectors and offers pragmatic and implementable solutions to address them. The author takes cognizance of the COVID-19 pandemic and draws attention to the limitations of the current public policies and suggests cost-effective interventions and strategies that focus on the poor. The volume discusses crucial themes of universalizing healthcare, battling malnutrition and food insecurity, ensuring quality schooling, unshackling gendered mindsets, enhancing livelihoods and improving the urban quality of life to spell out a pragmatic and workable development agenda for India. Accessible and reader-friendly, the book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of development studies, economics, public policy, governance, development policy, public administration, political studies, South Asia studies. It will also be of interest to professionals in the development sector"--

"This book provides a revamped, transformative, and fiscally sustainable developmental agenda for India to radically improve the well-being and livelihoods of its citizens. Grounded in a 'people first' approach, this alternative agenda focuses on seven vital development and inter-connected areas, including health, education, food and nutrition, child development, gender, livelihood and jobs, and urbanization. The volume highlights the systemic issues plaguing these sectors and offers pragmatic and implementable solutions to address them. The author takes cognizance of the COVID-19 pandemic and draws attention to the limitations of the current public policies and suggests cost-effective interventions and strategies that focus on the poor. The volume discusses crucial themes of universalizing healthcare, battling malnutrition and food insecurity, ensuring quality schooling, unshackling gendered mindsets, enhancing livelihoods and improving the urban quality of life to spell out a pragmatic and workable development agenda for India. Accessible and reader-friendly, the book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of development studies, economics, public policy, governance, development policy, public administration, political studies, South Asia studies. It will also be of interest to professionals in the development sector"--

Did the U.S. Constitution need a Bill of Rights? -- Why did the colonists decide to break free from England, and what were the results of the Revolutionary War? -- What were the Articles of Confederation, and why didn't they work? -- What was the Constitutional Convention, and who was involved? -- What is the Constitution, and what does it say? -- How did Americans react to the Constitution, and what were their reasons? -- What is the Bill of Rights, and what does it include? -- How does the Constitution affect Americans today?

1. Brief Introductory Remarks- Chandrika Kaul -- 2. "This cable...was not in my words": Gandhi, the Telegraph and Political Communication in the British Empire- Amelia Bonea -- 3. Gandhi's Evolving Discourse on Leprosy- Sanjiv Kakar -- 4. The Global Gandhi of the Muslim Vernacular Press: Mahatma as Monumental Peasant and the Prophetic Rose in the Urdu Pamphlets of an early 20th century Delhi Sufi- Timothy S. Dobe -- 5. Gandhi and the Bengali Intellectuals: Perceptions and portrayal of his ideas in contemporary vernacular journals in the 1920s and 1930s- Sarvani Gooptu -- 6. Gandhi and Broadcasting: Missing Narratives in Media, Nationalism and the Raj- Chandrika Kaul -- 7. Gandhi and the Muslim League: The Dawn in 1947- Gopa Sabharwal -- 8. Gandhi in 1947: Self Fashioning, Print Culture and The Republic of letters- Anjana Sharma -- 9. A Modern Mahatma? Use and Misuse of Gandhi in Popular Culture- Mei Li Badecker.

Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- References -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Identity and the Difficulty of Emancipation -- 1.1 Liberalism in Search of Identity -- 1.2 Identity and the Quest for Multiculturalism -- 1.3 Identity Politics -- 1.4 Conclusion -- References -- Part I: Liberalism in Search of Identity -- Chapter 2: Liberal Nationalism -- 2.1 The Liberal Theory of Nation -- 2.2 Critique of the Liberal Theory of Nation -- 2.2.1 Nation and the Problem of Positive Freedom -- 2.2.2 Nation and the Problem of Negative Freedom -- 2.2.3 Final Thoughts -- References -- Chapter 3: Freedom and Identity -- 3.1 The Idealist Self -- 3.2 The Psychological Self -- References -- Chapter 4: Psychology, Autonomy, and Liberalism -- 4.1 Identity and Autonomy -- 4.1.1 Autonomy and Love -- 4.1.2 Transcendental Love -- 4.2 Identity and Liberalism -- 4.3 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Identity, Difference and Anti-essentialism -- 5.1 Difference with Identity -- 5.2 Difference Without Identity -- References -- Chapter 6: Agency, Psychology and the Self: The Case of Religious Fundamentalism -- 6.1 Agency and Fundamentalism -- 6.1.1 Religious Extremism and Agency -- 6.1.2 Religious Extremism and Ideology -- 6.1.3 Religious Extremism and Self-Knowledge -- 6.2 Psychology and Fundamentalism -- 6.2.1 Metaphysics -- 6.2.2 Morality -- 6.2.3 Psychology -- 6.3 Conclusion -- Part II: Identity and the Quest for Multiculturalism -- Chapter 7: Multiculturalism, Islam and Suicide Bombers -- 7.1 Communitarianism in the Face of Islamic Suicide Bombing -- 7.2 The Moral Psychology of Suicide Bombers -- 7.3 In Lieu of Conclusion: Multiculturalism in Search of the Emergency Exit -- References -- Chapter 8: Foundations of Multiculturalism (1): Self-Knowledge -- 8.1 Multiculturalism and the Challenge of External and Internal Pluralism.