http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/34 2026-05-13T11:01:20Z 2026-05-13T11:01:20Z Naik, Prasad http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/7851 2026-04-28T07:52:07Z 2025-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nationalism in India: A Study of Influence of Tilak’s Nation Centric and Tagore’s Universalist Idealism on Contemporary Nationalism Naik, Prasad The Age of Enlightenment, industrialisation with capitalist production, and colonialism are interconnected historical phenomena. The growth of science as a mechanical stream and intellectual mode of reasoning postulated twofold reformations. While it transformed society from an agrarian economy with a feudal state into an industrial economy with a centralised bureaucratic state, its firm emphasis on positive knowledge as the only authentic source of knowledge diminished the conventional social prominence of traditional religions and challenged social morality. Rapid industrialisation in Europe augmented the pace of urbanisation, and new towns came into existence where workers from diverse countryside regions started to migrate in search of employment. These pluricultural and multilingual towns began to face difficulties, such as a deficiency of vehicular language between people of diverse linguistic backgrounds and the clash of identities, which consequently began to affect industrial production. At this juncture, the state-sponsored universal vis-à-vis uniform education gradually developed a lingua franca, cultivated a sense of belongingness and class fraternity among workers, and facilitated labour-capital industrial transactions. The linguistic homogeneity accompanied by cultural assimilation and sentiments of fraternity fostered the growth of nationalism: the linguistic, cultural, political, and economic homogenisation and standardisation of a geographical territory as a nation-state. This integration process horizontally separated the community into society and state. This separation widened the scope of functions and powers of the state and provided it with a reverential identity. The state became the epitome of identity and pride, culminating in the emergence and expansion of the nation state epoch.

2025-10-01T00:00:00Z Desai, P.S. http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/7819 2026-04-07T06:49:26Z 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

Revisiting Gandhi's economic vision: towards inclusiveness and empowerment for the nation Desai, P.S. Gandhi was one of the thinkers who gave both an idealistic and practical touch to the process of development for the nation. Gandhi aspired for a society in which there is no conflict, competition, or exploitation. This broader understanding of Gandhi can be revisited with the support of the ideas of Basava, an iconoclast who was the torchbearer of the social movement of the twelfth-century Karnataka against the hierarchical society. By focusing on the comparative analysis of the ideas of Gandhi and Basava, the paper attempts to explore the possibilities of inclusiveness and empowerment of every common person in their respective egalitarian economic vision.

2026-01-01T00:00:00Z Gaunkar, R. Narvenkar, M. http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/7790 2026-02-11T05:43:46Z 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

India-Africa partnership in the Indo-Pacific: Significance for the Global South Gaunkar, R.; Narvenkar, M. This study examines the evolving India-Africa partnership within the Indo-Pacific framework and assesses its significance for the Global South in a context of intensifying geopolitical competition. It analyzes the ways in which India and African countries cooperate in areas such as trade, maritime security, and institutional development, and evaluates whether this partnership contributes to enhancing the collective agency of the Global South and fostering a more inclusive and multipolar regional order. Anchored in liberal institutionalist theory, the article conceptualizes the India-Africa partnership as a form of South-South cooperation that prioritizes institutions, shared norms, and functional collaboration rather than hegemonic ambitions or alliance-based strategies. Using qualitative analysis and trade data covering the period from 2014 to 2024, the study highlights Africa's growing strategic importance in the Indo-Pacific, driven by its control over critical sea lanes, increasing geopolitical relevance, and expanding role in maritime governance. The findings indicate Africa's rising participation in Indo-Pacific trade and security dynamics, alongside China's substantial economic presence on the continent and India's comparatively distinctive approach. India's engagement emphasizes capacity building, maritime security cooperation, education, digital connectivity, and development partnerships. Ongoing anti-piracy operations, defense training programs, and institutional linkages with African coastal states underscore India's role as both a security provider and a development partner. The study concludes that the India-Africa partnership strengthens the Global South's collective influence by offering an alternative to hierarchical and dependency-oriented engagement models.

2025-01-01T00:00:00Z Desai, P.S. http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/7729 2025-11-14T08:49:01Z 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

Social Research and Socio-Political Issues in India (Chapter 7) Desai, P.S. Philosophical foundations are very important and indispensable for research in the study of social, economic, and political phenomenon. Each researcher can follow different philosophies and associated methods or methodologies but the social reality needs to be explained with different methods. The necessity of using different methods arises due to the fact that the social world is complex and complicated. In the contemporary world we have number of philosophical explanations to explain the world. In this variety of philosophical explanations only a few have given more importance to the universal values such as human rights, justice, and equality. Even among the explanations that have focused on universal values there is competition regarding whose and which explanations better explains the world. With these assumptions as a background, an effort is made to introduce basic philosophical texts and arguments that have been sensitive to raise issues like justice, equality, and the like at a global level. This chapter mainly attempts to locate social science research in India with regard to its orientation to socio-political issues.

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