Intended for public administration professionals, scholars, and students interested in citizen participation. This work brings together analyses of innovative practices, from hands-on community learning and focus groups to high-tech information systems and decision support technologies.

The press occupies a pivotal place in the modern society. It has become not only a powerful medium of mass communication but also an influential political and social institution. It has been recognised by to all the civilised countries that the press plays a vital role in moulding the public opinion and also in expressing it. The press in India playeda crucial role in rousing the spirit of nationalism among the people of India and also in fulfilling the nationalist aspiration of liberating India from the foreign rule. R.C.Majumdar in his Struggle for Freedom in the Bharatiya Vidhya Bhavan series, remarks that "the press imbued the people with patriotic fervover, indomitable courage and heroic self-sacrifice to an extraordinary degree". A number of works have been published in India and abroad describing the freedom movement in India at the national, regional and district levels.

The Nation that has no consciousness of the past cannot give shape to a great and glorious future. Reclaiming our past and recapturing the Dharmic vision is important for the furtherance of our future, to help us emerge as a confident nation capable of playing its civilizational role.History was a tool used first by our colonial masters, then by their Nehruvian successors and the Left-Liberal cabal to colonize our minds and impede our rise from the abyss of a slavish mindset. Shri Nandakumar surveys the entire freedom movement from a historical perspective to bring out in absorbing detail the real motivation of our freedom fighters - to preserve and revitalize the Swa Consciousness our National Selfhood. The book provides us a new template to view our past

Based On Solid Research, This Book Is The First Of Its Kind On Rayalaseema, A Drought-Prose Region In Andhra Pradesh. Pointing Out The Topographical Limitations, It Gives Reasons For The Region`S Economic Backwardness.

This edition marks the 50th anniversary of Indian independence and the 10th anniversary of the series. It provides analysis of and context for political, economic, social and cultural developments in India, and considers what past trends may indicate for the future.