Social Sciences & Behavioural Studies: Recent submissions

  • Karnataka: Change and continuity in 2014 
    Desai, P.S. (India's 2014 Elections: A Modi-led BJP Sweep, Ed. by: Paul Wallace. Sage Publishers, New Delhi. 2015; 358-377.)
    The 2014 elections reveal that there has been change as well as continuity in the electoral politics of Karnataka. Change could be seen on issues like the waning role of third forces in Karnataka politics. Another change ...
  • India's First Democratic Revolution: Dayanand Bandodkar and the Rise of the Bahujan in Goa 
    Parobo, P.D. (Orient Blackswan, New Delhi. 2015; 282pp.)
    Goa features in academic and popular discourse as a place of exceptions, contrary in several ways to national trends. Along with its small geographical size, Goa's legacy of Portuguese colonialism is often cited as the ...
  • Politics, new social media and mobilisation in India 
    Tripathi, R. (Contemporary Indian Politics: Internal Dynamics and External Compulsions, Ed. by: H.M. Sanjeev Kumar, et al. Pinnacle Learning, New Delhi. 2016; 186-199.)
    New Social Media (such as blogs, social networking sites and Twitter) has made an interesting penetration in Indian Politics in the recent years. Not only has it attempted to introduce new forms of communication and ...
  • Elections and institutional reforms in India: A case of the Election Commission 
    Shringare, A. (Contemporary Indian Politics: Internal Dynamics and External Compulsions, Ed. by: Sanjeev Kumar H.M., et al. Pinnacle Learning, New Delhi. 2016; 200-210.)
    The role of election in democracy is indeed significant. Elections provide legitimacy to the political system. It facilitates smooth transfer of power. The Election Commission of India is entrusted with the herculean task ...
  • Role of opposition in Indian democracy, elections and institutional reforms in India: A case of the Election Commission 
    Shringare, A. (Contemporary Indian Politics: Internal Dynamics and External Compulsions, Ed. by: Sanjeev Kumar H.M., et al. Pinnacle Learning, New Delhi. 2016; 224-235.)
    The presence of opposition parties in the legislature and a recognised Leader of Opposition guarantee the representation of minority views. The recent row over the appointment of Leader of Opposition led to emergence of ...
  • Human rights of the marginalised in India: Need for new understandings 
    Desai, P.S. (Contemporary Indian Politics: Internal Dynamics and External Compulsions, Ed. by: H.M. Sanjeev Kumar, et al. Pinnacle Learning, New Delhi. 2016; 284-292.)
    Marginalised communities in India are entitled to all the rights that constitution has ensured to all the citizens of the country. Apart from general, social economic and political rights they have been provided certain ...
  • Elections and electoral reforms in India: Some questions on their effectiveness and success 
    Desai, P.S. (Contemporary Indian Politics: Internal Dynamics and External Compulsions, Ed. by: H.M. Sanjeev Kumar, et al. Pinnacle Learning, New Delhi. 2016; 211-223.)
    Elections are indispensable to any political system which claims itself democratic. The connection between elections and governance has been one of the important foci in the studies on democracy in both Western and non-Western ...
  • Dynamics of Trade in Coastal Karnataka 1000-1700 CE 
    Rao, N. (Journal of History and Culture. 2; 2015; 32-41.)
    Coastal Karnataka, in the early medieval period, was known for the role of indigenous traders apart from the Arab traders. The pre-European or non-European trade can be divided into pre-Vijayanagara and post-Vijayanagara ...
  • Diaspora, nationality, and the Goan catholics in England 
    Coelho, J.P. (Paripex: Indian Journal of Research. 4(12); 2015; 11-13.)
    This paper discusses how Goan Catholics in England retain the cultural nationality of their home country while at the same time, having European citizenship. People from the former Portuguese colony in India can exercise ...
  • Constructing a virtual Tibet: The emerging cultural revolution among the Tibetans in exile 
    Coelho, J.P. (International Journal of Physical and Social Sciences. 6(1); 2016; 78-89.)
    Social justice generally refers to the idea of creating a society or institution that is based on the principles of equality and solidarity, that understands and values human rights, and that recognises the dignity of every ...

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