@book{Dhanavel2022,

title = {Continuing Professional Development of English Language Teachers},

editor = {S P Dhanavel},

url = {https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-5069-8},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5069-8},

isbn = {978-981-19-5068-1},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-12-12},

urldate = {2022-12-12},

pages = {XXV, 293},

publisher = {Springer Singapore},

abstract = {This book provides a comprehensive understanding of India's continuing professional development (CPD) landscape. It examines the issues surrounding the professional development of English language teachers in India at the tertiary level from multiple perspectives. Further, it evaluates various models of continuing professional learning (CPL) and emphasizes the transformative model as a solution to the social, administrative, or other impediments teachers encounter in their lives. Importantly, it presents examples, solving academic and non-academic problems in formal and informal, and face-face and technology-mediated forms of teaching and learning by teachers of English in different contexts. It discusses the latest developments in the literature related to the transformative and reflective approach to classroom problems faced by teachers on the ground such as classroom environment, students' socio-economic background, teachers education, and teacher assessment. Also, it positions continuing professional development (CPD) as having transformative power in teaching English in India and how it can improve students' learning opportunities. The book is relevant to English language teachers, teacher educators, and researchers in India and across the globe to address significant issues in the field: how to handle every classroom situation and how to train oneself as a teacher as well as a teacher educator. },

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@book{Pauri2022,

title = { Culture and the Literary: Matter, Metaphor, Memory},

author = {Dr. Avishek Pauri},

url = {https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786615992/Culture-and-the-Literary-Matter-Metaphor-Memory},

isbn = {978-1-78661-600-5},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-02-15},

urldate = {2022-02-15},

publisher = {Rowman & Littlefield, London},

abstract = {Culture and the Literary is a study of how cultural codes are constructed, consumed and conveyed as represented in selected works of fiction and non-fiction.



Examining cultural studies as a discipline by revisiting some of its seminal figures, the book includes a study of selected literary as well as non-fictional texts. It offers a unique combination of three major theoretical frames: memory studies, thing theory, and affect studies.



Drawing on fictional representations, theoretical frames and historical events, this book aims to provide a unique perspective into how culture as a phenomenon is represented, reified and re-membered in the world we inhabit today.},

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@book{Sethy2021,

title = {Introduction to Logic and Logical Discourse},

author = {Satya Sundar Sethy},

url = {https://www.springer.com/in/book/9789811626883},

isbn = {978-981-16-2688-3},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-08-14},

publisher = {Springer, Singapore},

edition = {1st Edition},

abstract = {This book focuses on logic and logical language. It examines different types of words, terms and propositions in detail. While discussing the nature of propositions, it illustrates the procedures used to determine the truth and falsity of a proposition, and the validity and invalidity of an argument. In addition, the book provides a clear exposition of the pure and mixed form of a syllogism with suitable examples. The book encompasses sentential logic, predicate logic, symbolic logic, induction and set theory topics. The book is designed to serve all those involved in teaching and learning courses on logic. It offers a valuable resource for students and researchers in philosophy, mathematics and computer science disciplines. Given its scope, it is an essential read for everyone interested in logic, language, formulation of the hypotheses for the scientific enquiries and research studies, and judging valid and invalid arguments in the natural language discourse. },

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@book{Raj2021,

title = {Anglo-Indian Identity},

editor = {Merin Simi Raj, Robyn Andrews},

url = {https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030644574},

isbn = {978-3-030-64458-1},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-03-01},

booktitle = {Anglo-Indian Identity: Past and Present, in India and the Diaspora},

pages = {XVII, 439},

publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan},

edition = {1},

chapter = {18},

abstract = {Revisionist in approach, global in scope, and a seminal contribution to scholarship, this original and thought-provoking book critiques traditional notions about Anglo-Indians, a mixed descent minority community from India. It interrogates traditional notions about Anglo-Indian identity from a range of disciplines, perspectives and locations. This work situates itself as a transnational intermediary, identifying convergences and bridging scholarship on Anglo-Indian studies in India and the diaspora. Anglo-Indian identity is presented as hybridised and fluid and is seen as being representative, performative, affective and experiential through different interpretative theoretical frameworks and methodologies. Uniquely, this book is an international collaborative effort by leading scholars in Anglo-Indian Studies, and examines the community in India and diverse diasporic locations such as New Zealand, Britain, Australia, Pakistan and Burma.},

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@book{S.N.2020,

title = {Small Firm Ownership and Credit Constraints in India},

author = {Rajesh Raj S.N. and Subash S.},

url = {https://www.routledge.com/Small-Firm-Ownership-and-Credit-Constraints-in-India/SN-Sasidharan/p/book/9780367135126},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003141310},

isbn = {9780367135126},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-12-24},

booktitle = {Small Firm Ownership and Credit Constraints in India},

pages = {216},

publisher = {Routledge India},

edition = {1st Edition},

institution = {IIT Madras},

abstract = {Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are considered the backbone of the Indian economy, but limited access to external finance can be a major constraint which hinders their growth and productivity. This barrier acts as a double-edged sword in the case of women and socially disadvantaged owners who are also subjected to discrimination in credit markets. },

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@book{IndianDemocracy2020,

title = {Indian Democracy – Contradictions and Reconciliations},

editor = {Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, Sudarsan Padmanabhan},

url = {https://in.sagepub.com/en-in/sas/indian-democracy/book272497},

isbn = {9789353289805},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

pages = {380},

publisher = {SAGE India},

abstract = {Indian Democracy: Contradictions and Reconciliations provides a vivid presentation of major facets of democracy in India. It aims to explore how Indian democracy has functioned, with reference to its theoretical foundations, institutional mechanisms and procedures, and political practices.



The book starts with a close analysis of the Constitution of India, which provides the theoretical validation for democratic politics and serves as a reflective and regulative ideal. It highlights the way adherence to democratic principles and nurturing of strong institutions have helped India negotiate and often reconcile contradictions such as caste inequalities, linguistic and ethnic identities, majority-minority divide, gender bias and divergences in the conception of democracy itself. Furthermore, the book delineates significant improvements in the maintenance of accurate electoral registers, enforcement of the Model Code of Conduct and use of electronic voting machines, considerable reductions in violence and intimidation in the recent decades, which have together contributed to strengthening the Indian voter’s confidence in democratic processes. This edited book will prove indispensable for all those who are interested in a close understanding of democracy in India.},

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@book{R2019,

title = {Lifescapes: Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers from Tamil Nadu},

author = {Swarnalatha R and Srilata K},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-03-11},

publisher = {Women Unlimited (formerly Kali for Women)},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {book}

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@book{R2018,

title = {Mayilamma – The life of a Tribal Woman Eco-Warrior},

author = {Swarnalatha R and Sreejith Varma},

url = {http://orientblackswan.com/BookDescription?isbn=978-93-5287-359-3&t=e},

isbn = {9789352873593},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-07-01},

publisher = {Orient BlackSwan},

address = {3-6-752, Himayatnagar, Hyderabad 500 029, Telangana, India.},

abstract = {Mayilamma (1940–2007) was an illiterate adivasi woman whose iconic leadership of her community against the unrestrained extraction and pollution of water by Coca-Cola put the nondescript village of Plachimada on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border on the global map of environmental activism.



Mayilamma: Oru Jeevitham maps the rise of eco-activism in Kerala alongside the realities of consumption, globalisation, widening socio-economic inequalities and the rising ecological burdens borne by the marginalised poor. Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Sreejith Varma’s English translation brings this important Malayalam text into the domain of international environmental justice writing for the first time, and shows how—in a classic David-and-Goliath struggle—this frail fifty-year old widow became a symbol of the global resistance against the multinational soft-drink giant.

Mayilamma’s life story—of an earth-carer intensely involved in the protection of livelihoods and local neighbourhoods—adopts the traditional oral mode of narration, central to the construction of the collective memory of tribal communities. It allows the reader to visualise the ‘slow violence’ of fissured earth narratives, such as the stories of toxic buildup, water pollution, deforestation, accelerated species loss and loss of habitats.



The connection between rootedness in the local and a sense of belonging to the global ecosystem is best understood through life narratives like Mayilamma, a story that translates the mantra of ecology—everything is connected—into a web of concrete relations that includes not only the ecological, but also cultural, economic and political processes. This is a must read for students of environmental studies, ecological activists, and everyone who feels responsible for their only home—the earth. },

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@book{Sethy2018,

title = {Higher Education and Professional Ethics},

editor = {Satya Sundar Sethy},

url = {https://www.routledge.com/Higher-Education-and-Professional-Ethics-Roles-and-Responsibilities-of/Sethy/p/book/9780815387145},

isbn = {9780815387145},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-03-27},

publisher = {Routledge},

abstract = {This book discusses the significance, relevance, and usefulness of professional ethics in the context of higher education. It highlights the pivotal role of professional ethics in offering teachers a better understanding of their responsibilities, duties, rights, and institutional obligations as they work to provide quality education. The volume investigates the connection between the adoption of professional ethics by individual faculty members in higher education and the development of work cultures in higher educational institutions. It explores the requisite modifications of the Teachers’ Code of Ethics in relation to the usage of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in teaching–learning platforms. While examining the validity, reliability, and application of professional ethics in the higher education sector, the book also illustrates the application of codes of ethics to resolve conflicting interests and commitments.



This book will be useful to scholars and researchers in higher education, the philosophy of education, applied ethics, public policy, and the social sciences.},

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@book{Krishnamurthy2018,

title = {1-800-Worlds: The Making of the Indian Call Centre Economy},

author = {Mathangi Krishnamurthy},

url = {https://india.oup.com/searchresults?searchbox_input=1-800-worlds},

isbn = {9780199476053},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-02},

publisher = {Oxford University Press},

abstract = {Indian call centre employees work through the night, sleep during the day and listen to foreign voices in accented tongues over transnational telephone connections. Through a description of the nightly and daily lives of call centre workers in the university town of Pune, India, 1-800-Worlds engages with the complex negotiations that underlie the ostensible success of new service economies. As the author shows, the call centre industry is neither insular nor singular but offers a set of symptoms that can help read changing forms of urban Indian middle-classness.},

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@book{M2017,

title = {Hastening Slowly- India’s Industrial Growth in the Era of Economic Reforms},

author = {Suresh Babu M},

url = {http://www.orientblackswan.com/BookDescription?isbn=978-93-5287-078-3&t=e},

isbn = {9789352870783},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-11-13},

publisher = {Orient BlackSwan},

abstract = {Post-Independence India’s diverse economy witnessed major changes in the 1990s, most of which were aimed at changing the industrial landscape. As the control and command of the state were diluted, competitive market conditions were expected to take their place and enhance output growth in the manufacturing sector.



Hastening Slowly is a comprehensive analysis of the changes in the market structure and performance of Indian manufacturing industries since the onset of these policy changes. With in-depth analyses of market structure, market power and performance, competition and entry barriers, regional industrial growth patterns, and econometric substantiation, the author argues that market power does exist. The author also identifies and quantifies the major entry barriers—the biggest hindrance to the competitive process—strategically erected by firms in the Indian context.



Finally, the book briefly studies the productivity of major industries and regional inequality in the manufacturing sector. The author shows that there has been no substantial improvement in productivity, and that inequality across regions is widening. He also shows that unorganised manufacturing has performed better than organised manufacturing.



This meticulously-researched work, applicable not only to India but to any late industrialising country, is a pertinent contribution to the literature on economic policy and thought. Students and scholars of economics, management studies and development studies will find the book interesting.},

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@book{R2017b,

title = {The Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication},

editor = {Swarnalatha R, Prof Scott Slovic, Dr Vidya Sarveswaran},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-11-09},

publisher = {Routledge},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {book}

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@book{R2017,

title = {Ecocriticism: Big Ideas and Practical Strategies},

author = {Swarnalatha R},

editor = {Scott Slovic},

url = {http://www.orientblackswan.com/BookDescription?isbn=978-93-5287-203-9&t=e},

isbn = {9789352872039},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-04-17},

publisher = {Orient BlackSwan},

abstract = {About the Book



This book provides a detailed introduction to the multifaceted and evolving discipline of ecocriticism. It locates ecocriticism within the varied domains of the Romantic movement, science, ethics, feminism and urban life, while tracing the evolution of the field from the coinage of the term to its new trajectories, through its various phases or ‘waves’. The book explores important concepts such as ecofeminism and material ecocriticism and points out the ways in which this literary/cultural theory seeks to engage with ‘our troubled environmental times’.},

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