Background to Globalisation
by Avinash Jha
Price: Rs. 150/-  US $10 outside India   Pages: 180   Paperback   Print 2000 Reprint 2001

Also available in Hindi.

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Globalisation has intensified the domination of societies by considerations of economy and state power.   This book traces this trend from the beginnings of modern world and documents the emergence of the U.S.-led global system after the second world war.  The most visible aspects of globalisation today are the explosion of the financial markets and the so-called information revolution.

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The Long and Winding Road
from Structural Change to Structural Transformation
A Backgrounder on NGOs and People's Movements
by Walter Mendoza and John D'Souza
Price:  Rs. 250/- [English] Rs.150/- [Hindi] US $ 15 outside India  Pages: 99 (Fulscap) Paperback  Print 2002
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This book is written to bring to the reader the background of the key issues that concern NGOs and point to readings and references available at CED. This book is a part of a personal journey, an exploration, of what NGOs have been attempting to do during the past three to four decades

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Changing the Stream
A Backgrounder on the Women's Movement in India
by Shubha Chacko
Price: Rs. 190/-  US $12 outside India  Pages: 163  Paperback  Print 2001
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This publication outlines the nature and constituents of the Movement, as also its engagement with the State, with various institutions and its bid to influence and rewrite agendas. It captures the various strands that make up the women's movement and proceeds to look at where we are now before finally setting out some of the challenges facing us

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An Economics for Well-Being
By Rajni Bakshi, Price Rs.180/-(India) US$16 outside India. Paperback. Print 2007.

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An Economics for Well-Being focuses on the kinds of economic structures that could truly revitalize and enrich people at all levels of society.

The thinking in the 'New Economics' stream is an important aspect of the global quest for systems that are socially just and ecologically sound.

The ultimate purpose, well-being of all citizens, may seem to be very far in the future. Yet, as this backgrounder shows, there are a wide range of initiatives in the here and now which are the next few steps helping us to move in that direction.

This backgrounder will help inform and enliven the process of making breakthroughs in our systems of production, technology, exchange of goods and, above all, the meaning and uses of wealth.

Rajni Bakshi is an activist cum journalist and a long time associate of Centre for Education and Documentation.

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FASCISM & COMMUNALISM CONSIDERATIONS
By Sandeep Pendse, Price Rs,240/- in (India) US$20 outside India. Paperback. Print 2007.
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The surge in Hindutva politics in the late 1980s raised the crucial question of the similarities and dissimilarities between communalism and fascism.

The demolition of the Babri mosque in 1992 and subsequent widespread violence of 1992-93, the formation of a BJP led government in 1998, and particularly the Gujarat Carnage of 2002 lent even greater urgency and sharpness to the debate.

This short book examines the question in some detail essentially for the general, non-specialist reader.

It dwells on the specificity of the Gujarat Carnage as well as the characteristics of the Sangh Parivar. It also explores the essential distinguishing traits of fascism – as a generic movement. It then seeks to compare the classic fascist organizations and the Sangh Parivar.

The Introduction and Conclusion (called Prelude and Afterthoughts) attempt to place the debate in the context of contemporary Indian reality..

Sandeep Pendse, based in Mumbai, is an independent researcher and writer

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