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It is generally believed that Pakistan is not self-sufficient
in wheat. Each year the government plans for wheat imports to fill the
estimated shortage of wheat. Effective import policy can only be
formulated on the basis of sound forecasting of the related variables.
This note has a limited purposes of reviewing the existing forecasting
techniques for wheat production. The broad conclusion that emerges from
the review indicates a possibility of considerable scope for improvement
in the current forecasting techniques.

Chapter 1. Remapping The Religion -- Chapter 2. Contours of Mediatized E- Religiosity -- Chapter 3. Digital Facets of E- Religiosity -- Chapter 4. Spatial Mapping of Screenscapes -- Chapter 5. Digital Negotiation of Religiosity In India -- Chapter 6. Spaces Of Screenscapes In India -- Chapter 7. Contours of Image Politics In India -- Chapter 8. Postscript: Screenscapes of E-Religiosity.

This book deals with three different subjects: geography, social media and religion equally to discuss e-religiosity in terms of screenscapes that shaped digital socialization processes wherein the role of digital devices in general and smartphones in particular are considered crucial and critical. The spatial dimension is the primary foundation of the book wherein both space and place are discussed in digital manifestations in spatial sense. Religiosity is discussed variably in a sense of spirituality, social theories, religions and images. The book uses some illustrations to understand image politics. Image politics is quintessential in the age of digital technologies when production and reproduction of images are not restricted to business only; rather it attracts politics too and politicians often use the same to make political scores against opponents. The book covers contemporary digital discourses of e-religiosity in a sense of screenscapes that often found pivot in daily discussions across social media platforms. Screenscapes are considered as mediated technologies when contents can be accessed from different social media apps to construct or deconstruct their views, narratives, discourses, ideas, emotions, and perceptions around religious images in day-to-day activities, practices, rituals, customs, traditions, faiths and beliefs. The used illustrations exclusively map Indian religious gestures, identities, values, and rituals in digital-spatial contexts. The book discusses seven major questions and argues the same across the chapters in varied representations and interpretations: How and to what extent has the meaning of religiosity changed in the digital age? What are the dimensions of e-religiosity in India? How are digital devices (re)shaping religiosity in terms of e-religiosity? How and to what extent digital devices are negotiating with social and cultural lives? What is digital spatiality? How and to what extent does social media influence religiosity?

1. Digital shutdown -- 2. Internet and Politics -- 3. Internet and Nationalism -- 4. Social Media and Shutdown Activism -- 5. Digital Politics and Internet -- 6. Internet and Territorial sovereignty -- 7. Social Media/Media governance -- 8. Livelihood and Digital shutdown -- 9. Politics of Digital Spatiality -- 10. Rules/Principles/Laws of Shutdown -- 11. Shutdown and Turnaround -- 12. Digital Transformation in Governance -- 13. Digital Manufacturing in Governance -- 14. Jammu & Kashmir Shutdown in India -- 15. Political Measures for shutdown -- 16. Digital India -- 17. And another topic.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- List of Graphs -- List of Images -- 1 Twittersphere: A Digital Spatiality -- 1.1 Understanding Twittersphere -- 1.2 Dimensions of Twittersphere -- 1.3 Re/Tweet as Spatio-Temporal Phenomena -- 1.4 Readings in Twittersphere -- 1.5 Framing Research in Twittersphere -- 1.6 Analysis Methods in Twittersphere -- 1.7 Future of Twittersphere -- References -- 2 Twittersphere and Geography -- 2.1 Mapping Twittersphere -- 2.2 What Is Twitter Geography? -- 2.3 Twittersphere as Representational Spaces -- 2.4 Twittersphere as Social Space -- 2.5 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Twittersphere: Re/Tweeting the Future -- 3.1 Pictotextuality -- 3.2 The Hashtag Politics -- 3.2.1 Mapping Twittersphere of USA -- 3.2.2 Make in India on Twittersphere -- 3.2.3 Heartland of India on Twittersphere -- 3.3 The Galaxies of Network -- 3.4 Mediated Spaces -- 3.4.1 Facebook -- 3.4.2 WhatsApp -- 3.4.3 Twitter -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Mapping Political Re/Tweets in India -- 4.1 Understanding Re/Tweets -- 4.2 Mapping the Political Re/Tweets -- 4.2.1 Political Mapping of Re/Tweets of Narendra Modi -- 4.2.2 Political Mapping of Re/Tweets of Arvind Kejriwal -- 4.2.3 Political Mapping of Re/Tweets of Shashi Tharoor -- 4.2.4 Political Mapping of Re/Tweets of Subramanian Swamy -- 4.2.5 Political Mapping of Re/Tweets of Sushma Swaraj -- 4.3 Conclusion -- References -- 5 Digital Political Revolution in India -- 5.1 Digital Revolution -- 5.2 Political Mapping of Twittersphere -- 5.3 Political Facets of Social Media -- 5.4 Conclusion -- References -- 6 Digital Political Economy of India I -- 6.1 Negotiating Digital Culture -- 6.2 Digital Identity in Everyday Life -- 6.3 Political Economy of Digital Culture in India -- 6.4 Conclusion -- References -- 7 Digital Political Economy of India II.

Media Space has become a rich intellectual resource in understanding spatial complexities. This innovative book extends the understanding of spatial perspective to non-material spaces. The relationship between geography and gender is explored from an Indian perspective Other the help of Media Space. Media Space is a virtual and metamorphic space where people can express and communicate views, ideas, images, and texts. Media Space is indeed a place where the construction of gender stereotypes

The purpose of this research is to investigate the contribution of basic services namely water supply, electricity, sewerage, telephone, roads and drainage network etc. for urban living in Dhaka. In the last three and a half decades, Dhaka's urban basic services governance has been functioning scantily because of supply shortage, sub-standard quality, lack of inter-operator coordination, resource constraints etc. Fragmented governance of urban services – which allowed functioning of several independent special purpose providers in the city - has been argued to be the key contributor by the concerned local researchers, academics, politicians, user groups etc. The same have professed integrated governance of these basic services under the single institutional canvas of a general-purpose metropolitan government headed by elected leadership as the potential remedy. The research is aimed at examining the prospects of metropolitan government for rendering improvements in this connection. In the process, the research investigated the institutional capacities of the selected service providers based on secondary information, carried out questionnaire interview on sampled users to gauge on their level of satisfaction with the present service governance. The above two investigations examined the effectiveness, equity, efficiency and responsiveness of the existing arrangement as in broad terms, these determines the governance performance. Additionally, the research reviewed cases of metropolitan government from overseas to learn how the arrangement can contribute in this regard. Investigation results from Dhaka align with the assertion that fragmented mode of governing urban basic services have caused the surfacing of the present ailing status. Review of overseas experiences revealed that metropolitan government arrangement has been quite successful in improving governance problems of urban services similar to Dhaka. Based on the results, the current research favors the establishment of a general-purpose metropolitan government in Dhaka with sole powers over urban basic services delivery and management. The research also suggests that key considerations for enacting such a governance arrangement needs to reflect on the prospects of consolidating functional and areal jurisdictions, financial affairs of urban basic services under its single institutional framework. The research is significant in context of Dhaka as well as Bangladesh in way that it crafts scope for conducting further examination on issues related to the strengthening of urban local government bodies, tentative functional domains and prospects of implementing metropolitan government in other Bangladeshi cities. ; published_or_final_version ; Kadoorie Institute ; Doctoral ; Doctor of Philosophy