http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/6 2026-04-20T12:00:25Z http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/7819 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 http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/7790 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 http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/7755 Discerning Religious Nationalism Among Tibetans in Exile in India (Chapter 31) Coelho, J.P. While nationalism, like nation, is an essentially contested concept, its elusive nature gets even more interesting when it occurs in exile. Though scholars like Said find exile to be a natural home for the birth of nationalism, the constraints of exile may impede the full expression of exile. This chapter examines the dialectics of sustaining nationalism, particularly religious nationalism, among the Tibetans in exile. In 1959, the spiritual and temporal Head of Tibet, the His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, and thousands of Tibetans sought refuge in India following the Chinese annexation of Tibet in 1950. Given the predominant role of Tibetan Buddhism in determining the culture, polity as well as lifeworlds and public sphere of Tibet, it is only natural that religious nationalism would be the glue providing social cohesion to the disparate refugee population. While there are differing views on whether primordial identities like religion could be the organising axis of nations and nationalism, scholars like Dawa Norbu argue that the structure of third world nationalism includes traditional data like religion as well as egalitarian ideology like fraternity. This chapter seeks to discern the nature of this religious nationalism created and sustained in exile. On the basis of field data gathered from Tibetan settlements in Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh and Ladakh in India from November 2023 to May 2024, as well as secondary data, this chapter documents the pre-eminence of Tibetan Buddhism from the time of the formation of the Tibetan ethnie to the development of nationalism in exile. It also elucidates the challenges of sustaining nationalism, particularly religious nationalism in exile. 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/7729 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. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z