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Predictive Analytics in Human Resource Management A Hands-on Approach

Predictive Analytics in Human Resource Management A Hands-on Approach

This volume is a step-by-step guide to implementing predictive data analytics in human resource management (HRM). It demonstrates how to apply and predict various HR outcomes which have an organisational impact to aid in strategising and better decision-making. The book: Presents key concepts and expands on the need and role of HR analytics in business management. Utilises popular analytical tools like artificial neural networks (ANNs) and K-nearest neighbour (KNN) to provide practical demonstrations through R scripts for predicting turnover and applicant screening. Discusses real-world corporate examples and employee data collected first-hand by the authors. Includes individual chapter exercises and case studies for students and teachers. Comprehensive and accessible this guide will be useful for students teachers and researchers of data analytics Big Data human resource management statistics and economics. It will also be of interest to readers interested in learning more about statistics or programming. | Predictive Analytics in Human Resource Management A Hands-on Approach

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Lives in Motion Celebrating Dance in Thailand

Lives in Motion Celebrating Dance in Thailand

Lives in Motion celebrates dance in Thailand focusing on the diversity of Thailand’s dance cultures and their place in today’s world. Giving voice to eminent artists and scholars on the complex roles that Thailand is pursuing for artful movement at home and abroad the book provides key perspectives on Thai dance traditions and practitioners. It explores the many forms and meanings in contemporary dance changing local traditions in the country the evolution of Thai dance on the global stage and hybrid features of the Thai dance world. The book examines how hybridity has been integral to dance cultures in Thailand and discusses how they have actively adapted and negotiated their knowledge in relation to modernity and globalization. Developing new models standards and sites for dance movement and theater dance in Thai has been advancing in innovative ways whether it is to include fresh forms of skilled bodily movement or to expand in new arenas like tourism and online platforms. Similarly old systems of training which included artists’ homes palaces and temples have been adapted into the new world of modern education media home schooling and new community rituals. A pioneering contribution on Thai performing arts this volume examines contemporary Thai dance cultures in the local national regional and global contexts. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of dance and performance studies cultural studies Southeast Asia studies and art. | Lives in Motion Celebrating Dance in Thailand

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Kipling in India

Kipling in India

This book explores and re-evaluates Kipling’s connection with India its people culture languages and locales through his experiences and his writings. Kipling’s works attracted interest among a large section of the British public stimulating curiosity in their far-off Indian Empire and made many canonize him as an emblem of the ‘Raj’. This volume highlights the astonishing social and thematic range of his Indian writings as represented in The Jungle Books; Kim; his early verse; his Simla-based tales of Anglo-Indian intrigues and love affairs; his stories of the common Indian people; and his journalism. It brings together different theoretical and contextual readings of Kipling to examine how his experience of India influenced his creative work and conversely how his imperial loyalties conditioned his creative engagement with India. The 18 chapters here engage with the complexities and contradictions in his writings and analyse the historical and political contexts in which he wrote them and the contexts in which we read him now. With well-known contributors from different parts of the world – including India the UK the USA Canada France Japan and New Zealand – this book will be of great interest not only to those interested in Kipling’s life and works but also to researchers and scholars of nineteenth-century literature comparative studies postcolonial and subaltern studies colonial history and cultural studies. | Kipling in India

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Critical Discourse in Odia

Critical Discourse in Odia

This volume forms part of the Critical Discourses in South Asia series which deals with schools movements and discursive practices in major South Asian languages. It offers crucial insights into the making of Odia literature and its critical tradition across a century. The book brings together English translation of major writings of influential figures dealing with literary criticism and theory aesthetic and performative traditions and re-interpretations of primary concepts and categories in Odia. It presents twenty-five key texts in literary and cultural studies from late-nineteenth century to early-twenty-first century translated by experts for the first time into English. These seminal essays explore complex interconnections between socio-historical events in the colonial and post-Independence period in Odisha and the language movement. They discuss themes such as the evolving idea of literature and criteria of critical evaluation; revision and expansion of the literary canon; the transition from orality to print; emergence of new reading practices resulting in shifts in aesthetic sensibility; dialectics of tradition and modernity; and the formation consolidation and political consequences of a language-based identity. Comprehensive and authoritative this volume offers an overview of the history of critical thought in Odia literature in South Asia. It will be essential for scholars and researchers of Odia language and literature literary criticism literary theory comparative literature Indian literature cultural studies art and aesthetics performance studies history sociology regional studies and South Asian studies. It will also interest the Odia-speaking diaspora and those working on the intellectual history of Odisha and Eastern India and conservation of language and culture. | Critical Discourse in Odia

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Critical Discourse in Bangla

Critical Discourse in Bangla

This volume forms a part of the Critical Discourses in South Asia series which deals with schools movements and discursive practices in major South Asian languages. It offers crucial insights into the making of Bengali or Bangla literature and its critical tradition across a century. The book brings together English translation of major writings of influential figures dealing with literary criticism and theory aesthetic and performative traditions and reinterpretations of primary concepts and categories in Bangla. It presents 32 key texts in literary and cultural studies from Bengal from the middle of the 19th to that of the 20th century with most of them translated for the first time into English. These seminal essays are linked with socio-historical events and phenomena in the colonial and post-independence period in Bengal including the background to the Language Movement in Bangladesh. They discuss themes such as integrative aesthetic visions poetic and literary forms modernism imagination power structures and social struggles ideological values cultural renovations and humanism. Comprehensive and authoritative this volume offers an overview of the history of critical thought in Bangla literature in South Asia. It will be essential for scholars and researchers of Bengali/Bangla language and literature literary criticism literary theory comparative literature Indian literature cultural studies art and aesthetics performance studies history sociology regional studies and South Asian studies. It will also interest the Bengali-speaking diaspora and those working on the intellectual history of Bengal and conservation of languages and culture | Critical Discourse in Bangla

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Undernutrition and Public Policy in India Investing in the future

Undernutrition and Public Policy in India Investing in the future

Despite substantial economic growth India has one of the highest undernutrition rates in the world; it is home to almost 40 per cent of the world’s stunted children. This volume assesses the status and causes of undernutrition in the country and examines the effectiveness of policies designed to address undernutrition. The essays tackle wide-ranging themes and challenging issues including nutrition; water sanitation and hygiene (WASH); maternal neonatal and child health; Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS); Public Distribution System (PDS); crop procurement; and National Food Security Act 2013. With contributions from leading academic researchers policymakers as well as civil society representatives this volume will be indispensable to scholars teachers and students of public policy development economics development sociology and Indian economy. It will also be useful to government institutions think tanks and NGOs. | Undernutrition and Public Policy in India Investing in the future

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Creative Industries in India

Creative Industries in India

As digitalization meets local traditions there is great potential for creative industries (CI) to promote economic and social development in middle- and low-income countries. This book explores the economic and cultural relevance of these industries in India. The book identifies key topics regarding cultural and creative industries in India which has a rich cultural heritage and a young demographic and is undergoing swift socio-economic change. It contains the most sophisticated and comprehensive mappings of CI in India to date. It also features numerous case studies which illuminate the growth of CI in India its intersections with caste and gender the central role of handloom handicraft and other local practices within communities as well as the specific challenges in safeguarding and harnessing various creative industry assets to promote sustainable development and social change. Rich with empirical data this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of cultural studies economics history social work development studies media studies and South Asian studies.

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Social Innovations in Urban Sanitation in India Meeting Unmet Needs

Social Innovations in Urban Sanitation in India Meeting Unmet Needs

This book discusses effective social innovation strategies facilitated by civil society organisations (CSOs) to tackle India’s significant urban sanitation challenge. It presents the contours of an ecosystem that includes citizen participation and strengthening community-managed systems for improved sanitation and public health. The book analyses case studies of effective sanitation programmes as well as experiments with innovative ideas in different regional contexts by CSOs to meet the contextual needs of the community and to ensure access to safe sanitation especially among the urban poor. It highlights the challenges and the need for active participation of communities for change in behaviour increasing institutional capacities of municipalities for standardising and scaling up strategies which work. The authors highlight the need for designing low-cost solutions organising informal sanitation workers serving marginalised communities and building effective alliances between communities and institutions to influence public policy. Rich in empirical data this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of urban studies public policy governance political science development studies and sociology as well as for CSOs and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working on urban sanitation urban planning and public policy. | Social Innovations in Urban Sanitation in India Meeting Unmet Needs

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Critical Discourse in Gujarati

Critical Discourse in Gujarati

This volume forms part of the Critical Discourses in South Asia series which deals with schools movements and discursive practices in major South Asian languages. It offers crucial insights into the making of Gujarati literature and its critical tradition across a century / several centuries. The book presents one of a kind historiography of Gujarati literature and of its critical discourse. It brings together English translations of major writings of influential figures dealing with literary criticism and theory aesthetic and performative traditions and re-interpretations of primary concepts and categories in Gujarati. It initiates an exploration into Gujarati critical discourse from the heather to neglected pre-colonial centuries and presents key texts in literary and cultural studies some of which are being made available for the first time into English. These seminal essays explore complex interconnections understand the dynamics of critical discursive situations in Gujarati literature and to carefully construct a mobile post of observation that matches those dynamics. They offer a radical departure from the widespread historiographical practice in Indian writings of disregarding pre-colonial literary critical discourse. The book also offers a new and indigenous periodization of Gujarati literature and its critical discourse derived from a fresh perception of Gujarati and Indian literary culture. Comprehensive and authoritative this volume offers an overview of the history of critical thought in Gujrati literature in South Asia. It will be essential for scholars and researchers of Gujarati language and literature literary criticism literary theory comparative literature Indian literature cultural studies art and aesthetics performance studies history sociology regional studies and South Asian studies. It will also interest the Gujarati-speaking diaspora and those working on the intellectual history of Gujarat and Western India and conservation of the language and their culture. | Critical Discourse in Gujarati

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Governance in South Asia

Governance in South Asia

This book presents a nuanced analysis of governance in South Asia. It examines a range of themes including civil service reforms women and development environmental governance and public sector programmes together with the impact of globalization on local issues and its influence on governance in the region. Through grass-roots studies the volume also traces how the last 20 years have seen a social and economic resurgence in South Asia – transiting from stages of poverty low growth rates illiteracy and poor health to flourishing economies improved savings greater investments and stronger human development indicators. Drawing on extensive fieldwork this book will be of great interest to scholars of politics and public administration development studies labour studies and sociology and social anthropology. It will also be useful to practitioners in the field NGOs and civil servants.

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Historical Sociology in India

Historical Sociology in India

This book is a comprehensive study of historical sociology and its development especially in the Indian context. It looks at the works of Indian sociologists and analyses their approaches in terms of book-view (normative) and field-view (descriptive) history. The volume: • critically appraises reports of empirical surveys conducted during early colonial rule — including those by H. T. Colebrooke Francis Buchanan William Adam; • engages with the works of sociologists such as M. N. Srinivas Ramkrishna Mukherjee Louis Dumont Nicholas Dirks Bernard Cohn Yogendra Singh D. N. Dhanagare A. M Shah T. K. Oommen among others; and • shows how historical perspective has been adopted in understanding aspects of Indian society — villages castes traditions socio-cultural change education peasants and their movements etc. Presenting an alternative idea of social reality this book will deeply interest students and scholars of sociology social theory and social history. | Historical Sociology in India

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In an Outpost of the Global Economy Work and Workers in India's Information Technology Industry

In an Outpost of the Global Economy Work and Workers in India's Information Technology Industry

While much has been written on the growth of information technology (IT) and IT-enabled services in India little is known about the people who work in these industries about the nature of the work itself and about its wider social and cultural ramifications. The papers in this collection combine empirical research with theoretical insight to fil | In an Outpost of the Global Economy Work and Workers in India's Information Technology Industry

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Shooting Terror Terrorism in Hindi Films

Shooting Terror Terrorism in Hindi Films

Shooting Terror highlights the disturbing immediacy of acts of terror and how cinema responds to them. It follows the changing representations of terrorism in Hindi cinema by fielding in-depth textual analyses of films such as Roja Maachis Black Friday Tere Bin Laden Uri: The Surgical Strike among others. It traces how terror and the terrorist have come to be viewed in the Indian cultural space and lays the grounds for a multivalent perspectival reading of cinema and terrorism. Moving from the threat of terror condensed in the Mogambo-esque villain in Mr. India to the showcasing of terror and the terrorist in their lived-in realities in Haider and Shahid the book explores the fraught connections between terror and the themes of devastation and trauma; between terror and the urban cityscape. It also seeks to highlight the place of humour and satire in films on terrorism and the presence of the reactionary far right in these films. One of the first books to present a composite picture of terrorism in contemporary Hindi cinema this volume will be of interest to researchers and academics of cultural studies media and film studies and the study of sociopsychological violence in media and culture. | Shooting Terror Terrorism in Hindi Films

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Armed Conflicts in South Asia 2013 Transitions

Armed Conflicts in South Asia 2013 Transitions

Seventh in the annual series this volume focuses on civil society movements in South Asia besides covering armed conflicts in the region in 2012. The first section addresses the conflicts in Afghanistan Pakistan and Myanmar and the situation in Northeast India and Naxalite violence; the second assesses peace audits in Nepal Sri Lanka Jammu and Kashmir along with the peace process in Nagaland. | Armed Conflicts in South Asia 2013 Transitions

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Perspectives in Sustainable Management Practices

Perspectives in Sustainable Management Practices

Embracing sustainable management practices is important for businesses and commercial organizations wishing to responsibly contribute to the socioeconomic development of societies and communities. This book provides insights into recent trends issues and challenges in embracing these practices while promoting growth and innovation in business. The COVID-19 pandemic has redefined the necessity of implementing sustainable practices. This book looks at the process implementation and evaluation of sustainable practices in the social and commercial sectors in recent years. With case studies from different industries these chapters explore and document creative applications of effective measures to chart out financial growth for businesses while reducing carbon emissions focusing on corporate social responsibility and working toward socio-economic sustainability for workers and communities among others. They also examine how these innovative strategies can be scaled up and applied across diverse industries for small and large businesses and in different economic environments. Part of the Contemporary Management Practices series this book will be useful to practising managers researchers and students who are interested in business strategy financial strategy and social inclusion. It will be especially of use to those working in the areas of corporate governance corporate social responsibility green marketing corporate finance and organizational performance. | Perspectives in Sustainable Management Practices

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Gandhi in Contemporary Times

Gandhi in Contemporary Times

This volume brings together essays that discuss and contextualise Gandhi’s ideas on pluralism religious identity non-violence satyagraha and modernity. It interrogates the epistemic foundations of Gandhian thinking and weltanschauung identifies diverse strands within his arguments and gives it new meaning in contemporary society. This book focuses on Gandhi’s engagements with religious political and social conflicts; his reflections on faith and modernity; and his argumentative dialogues with Mohammad Ali Jinnah and B. R. Ambedkar. It provides critical insights into Gandhi’s philosophy and suggests ways of engaging with his ethical and moral ideas in contemporary intellectual and political discourse. Comparing and contrasting Gandhian thought and strategies with contemporary issues and conceptions of religious freedom conflict resolution and liberalism the volume reformulates and reconstitutes his intellectual and political legacy. This book points to new and possible future directions of research on Gandhian concepts and will be useful for scholars in the fields of political science Gandhian studies sociology and philosophy. | Gandhi in Contemporary Times

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Religion and Education in India

Religion and Education in India

This book studies the relationship between religion and education in the Indian context. It analyses the creative interface between religion and education as empirical categories and overlapping modes of pedagogical transmission. The volume investigates the ways in which religious identities are shaped through education both at home and at school. It brings together academics and researchers working in different faith traditions like Islam Hinduism and Sikhism to understand the significance of transmitting religious education and the need to pay closer attention to sites through which religious instruction is being disseminated. Topical and lucid this book will be an important reading for scholars and researchers of sociology religious studies secularism sociology of education political sociology South Asia studies and education in general. | Religion and Education in India

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Cultural Studies in India

Cultural Studies in India

This volume discusses the development of cultural studies in India. It shows how inter-disciplinarity and cultural pluralism form the basis of this emerging field. It deals with contemporary debates and interpretations of post-colonial theory subaltern studies Marxism and post-Marxism nationalism and post-nationalism. Drawing upon literature linguistics history political science media and theatre studies and cultural anthropology it explores themes such as caste indigenous peoples vernacular languages and folklore and their role in the making of historical consciousness. A significant intervention in the area this book will be useful to scholars and students of cultural studies and theory literature history cultural anthropology sociology and media and mass communication as well as the general reader.

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Ethnicity and Adivasi Identity in Bangladesh

Ethnicity and Adivasi Identity in Bangladesh

This book explores the transitions in the adivasi identity as well as in the political representation of adivasi communities in Bangladesh. It traces the use of categories such as “primitive” “tribe” and “adivasi” in post-colonial Bangladesh both in the political discourse and in everyday life. The volume studies the history of these essentialized categories used for indigenous communities within the hierarchies of power and identity. It also analyses the diverse articulations of indigeneity through ethnographic narratives exploring the formations of newer traditions and identity. The author highlights the persistence of the terms “simple” and “primitive” in contemporary discourses while also sharing examples of complex mediations and appropriation of these categories by adivasi groups in Bangladesh. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of sociology social ethnography social and cultural anthropology indigenous studies exclusion studies development studies political sociology and South Asian studies. | Ethnicity and Adivasi Identity in Bangladesh

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Caste in Contemporary India

Caste in Contemporary India

Caste is a contested terrain in India’s society and polity. This book explores contemporary realities of caste in rural and urban India. It examines questions of untouchability citizenship social mobility democratic politics corporate hiring and Dalit activism. Using rich empirical evidence from the field across Punjab Uttar Pradesh Delhi and other parts of north India this volume presents the reasons for the persistence of caste in India from a new perspective. The book offers an original theoretical framework for comparative understandings of the entrenched social differences discrimination inequalities stratification and the modes and patterns of their reproduction. This second edition with a new Introduction delves into why caste continues to matter and how caste-based divisions often tend to overlap with the emergent disparities of the new economy. A delicate balance of lived experience and hard facts this persuasive work will serve as essential reading for students and teachers of sociology and social anthropology social exclusion and discrimination studies political science development studies and public policy. | Caste in Contemporary India

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Terror Financing in Kashmir

Terror Financing in Kashmir

This book analyses the layered and complex web of terror financing in Kashmir. It examines the role of multiple actors — including formal and informal state and non-state profit and non-profit and local and international — to delineate the various strands of an intricate financial system. It shows how over time these sophisticated networks have largely remained elusive to Indian counter-terrorism agencies and the need for a specialised and focused effort to understand it. Drawing on interviews with confidential sources within terror networks as well as inputs and intel from security agencies on the ground the author lays the groundwork for a robust counter-terrorism strategy in Kashmir. This book will be a must read for professionals and researchers in security studies military and strategic studies politics and international relations and South Asian studies.

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Humour and the Performance of Power in South Asia Anxiety Laughter and Politics in Unstable Times

Humour and the Performance of Power in South Asia Anxiety Laughter and Politics in Unstable Times

This book critically examines the role and politics of humour and the performance of power in South Asia. What does humour do and how does it manifest when lived political circumstances experience ruptures or instability? Can humour that emerges in such circumstances be viewed as a specific narrative on the nature of democracy in the region? Drawing upon essays from India Sri Lanka and Bangladesh this volume discusses many crucial historical and contemporary themes including dance-drama performances in northern India; caste and stand-up comedy in India; cartoon narratives of citizens’ anxieties; civic participation through social media memes in Sri Lanka; media politics and humorous public in Bangladesh; the politics of performance in India; and the influence of humour and satire as political commentaries. The volume explores the impact of humour in South Asian folklore ritual performances media and journalism and online technologies. This topical and interdisciplinary book will be essential for scholars and researchers of cultural studies political science sociology and social anthropology media and communication studies theatre and performance studies and South Asian studies. | Humour and the Performance of Power in South Asia Anxiety Laughter and Politics in Unstable Times

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True Crime Writings in Colonial India Offending Bodies and Darogas in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

True Crime Writings in Colonial India Offending Bodies and Darogas in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

The emergent culture of crime writings in late 19th century colonial Bengal (India) is an interesting testimony to how literature is shaped by various material forces including the market. This book deals with true crime writings of the late 1800s published by ‘lowbrow publishing houses’ — infamous for publishing ‘sensational’ and the ‘vulgar’ literature — which had an avid bhadralok (genteel) readership. The volume focuses on select translations of true crime writings by Bakaullah and Priyanath Mukhopadhyay who worked as darogas (Detective Inspectors) in the police department in mid-late nineteenth century colonised Bengal. These published accounts of cases investigated by them are among the very first manifestations of the crime genre in India. The writings reflect their understandings of criminality and guilt as well as negotiations with colonial law and policing. Further through a selection of cases in which women make an appearance either as victims or offenders (or sometimes as both ) this book sheds light on the hidden gendered experiences of the time often missing in mainstream Bangla literature. Combining a love for suspense with critical readings of a cultural phenomenon this book will be of much interest to scholars and researchers of comparative literature translation studies gender studies literary theory cultural studies modern history and lovers of crime fiction from all disciplines. | True Crime Writings in Colonial India Offending Bodies and Darogas in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

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The Place of Humanities in Our Universities

The Place of Humanities in Our Universities

This volume examines the critical role of the humanities in universities in India and attempts to redefine its place meaning and function in education. Bringing together distinguished scholars in the country it debates the status and predicament of the humanities in the academic programmes within universities. The issues raised here touch upon the entire gamut of problems that a university faces in finding an adequate rightful and wholesome place for the humanities in its academic curriculum. It discusses the difficulties in the specific identity of disciplines classed under the humanities the powerful reach of the sciences and technological inroads in the teaching and practice of all disciplines the relative academic balancing of disciplines in different universities in India the culture value and the idea of the university digitisation of the humanities and online access and their specific impact on research in the concerned disciplines. The volume also presents an instructive debate on the so-called appropriation of traditional social science concerns by other departments. This book will interest those in education humanities and social sciences governance and public policy and South Asian studies. | The Place of Humanities in Our Universities

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