Throw light upon the causes that contribute to the restlessness among students. Students are not to be blamed for their being restive and violent. They are the products of the situations in which they are being raised. They are what they are shaped to be. Since the ancient times an authoritarian tendency has characterised the attitudes of teachers among others in authority in educational institutions towards the students. Students have not had the necessary attention and affection. The most important of the causes stands out to be the absence of cordial teacher-student relationship plus the conducive educational and institutional environment. Recommendations It is interesting to note that a good teacher, even if he is not a good man, is more respected than a bad teacher who may be a good man. It is obvious, therefore, that professional excellency and commitment on the part of the teachers will go a long way to curb student unrest in our educational institutions. Dr. S.N. Ratha, Professor and Head, Post Graduate Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Sambalpur University, Orissa. ``The author has done his work critically and well. He has chosen a new parameter-Teacher-student Relationship'-in his study and is well taken. From authors like McCormack to Altbach, very few authors have explored this dimension of the problem except very tangentially. Mr. Ghose's is a full-length study on this dimension with all its ramifications. I congratulate the author for his painstaking and critical expose.........'' Bela Dutt Gupta, Professor of Sociology, Calcutta University, West Bengal. ``I recommend ................ for its originality and boldness. I think the results of this study be known to all teachers and educationists.'' Dr. N.C. Choudhary, Professor of Sociology and Social Anthroplogy, University of North Bengal. Review ``The findings are logically arrived at and cogently presented in a readable simple style. No doubt this book will be useful to all those who have interest in the areas of sociology, education, political sociology in general and to those who are interested in the problems affecting the youth in particular''. K. Raghuram Reddy, The Indian Journal of Political Science

It involves theories from various fields and imbibes the findings in them as from the field of psychology, philosophy of language, technology, sociology, and so on. With such an inter-disciplinary orientation, language teaching consists of first language learning theories, second language learning theories, language teaching methods-a sub-part of which is language planning and teaching tasks, language testing and variables in language learning. This entails looking up different books on the various subjects which is not an easy proposition. This book presents the topic comprehensively in one place, saving in terms of time and effort, which can be put to more constructive use. Discuss the various aspects of language teaching and the theories, examples and illustrations, and how their applied form influences the theory. The chapters are classified as : language learning theories, language teaching methods, language planning and materials production, language teaching tasks, testing, programmed instruction and CA, EA, and variables in language learning.

Multi-dimensional and dynamic, every society is being ceaselessly plagued by a number of socio-political problems. Delineations of these problems have manifested themselves in the shape of articles of different taste, tone and tenor under five broad divisions such as education, youth, politics, society and health (of the body and mind of an individual). This book thus turns out to be a conglomeration of a total of forty articles plus a lengthy introduction which sums up the articles in order to induce the readers to browse over them, one by one, in an effort to acquaint themselves with the variegated problems that are eroding into the vitals of our society.

A blend of Sociology of Politics and the Sociology of Education. Efforts have been afloat to appraise the present political scenario in the perspective of the pre-independence politics. Ideological politics have also been broadly brought under a sweeping analysis in order to penetrate deeper into the interior of the present-day politicking. Academics are found to be continually apathetic to party-politics or what is also known as politics of power. A handful of them are actively involved into it.

This is the first specialised volume with a holistic approach dealing with the most vulnerable and neglected section of workers in unorganised sector of agriculture. Tracing women's role and status in the historical perspective, existing situational analysis and making future projections are the main sub-themes discussed threadbare. Women workers in different agro-ecological and types of farming have been analysed by various scholars. Papers on technology and women bring out, among other things, a situational analysis, work conditions in home and farm, wages, bearing on her farm employment and participation. Prospective role and status have been projected in the changing techno-economic context that warrants about the displacement of women workers in developing agriculture. In the series, this volume focusses on the issues of educational problems of the rural women in general and specialised training needs, facilities available and utilization of these in particular for providing them appropriate place in the prospective agriculture. Training needs of different groups in different agroclimatic and cultural contexts have been compiled at one place. Multiplicity of institutions has certainly benefited women fold but mushrooming of voluntary agencies is not desirable in spite of the best performance of voluntary agencies. What role different institutional structures have played in the education and training of women is discussed at length and future course of involvements is debated. Different agricultural development strategies adopted since independence have been critically examined for assessing the place of women in them and urgent action needed to meet the future challenges.

Though Balance Sheet is supposed to exhibit true and fair exposure of a business or enterprise, but due to certain limitations in following the rigidity in accounting principle and ignoring the socio-economic changes, its very objective is defeated. In this book, the author has not only highlighted the limitation but also proposed a new model of Balance Sheet in consideration of the impact of non-financial elements and price level changes in accounting. The book contains ten Chapters. Chapter 1 deals with the object, area and scope of the study. Chapter 2 speaks of the definition and history of balance sheet. Valuation of assets and liabilities is dealt with in chapter 3. Human element being an important ingredient in running as well as earning of a business is incorporated in accounting in Chapter 4. Money value and real value concept is dealt with in Chapter 5. The dupe concept of `true and fair' is presented in Chapter 6. The conflict between tax rule and accounting principle and their impact on balance sheet is explained in Chapter 7. Impossibility of correct interpretation of balance sheet for its inherent limitation is discussed in Chapter 8. Non-financial elements which play vital role in business are dealt with in Chapter 9. In Chapter 10, efforts are made to design a New Model of Balance Sheet by wiping out the shadow of limitation to a great extent.

The book re-examines the customary belief that financing of health care is positively related to health status of population. The belief has survived, despite being fallacious, because health is not generally viewed in its widest connotation; so that resources spent on health do not touch the larger meaning of health. Hence, a non-correlation between the two. The book presents factual and analytical support for this hypothesis of non-correlation. This is done in two stages. Firstly, in terms of the existing politico-economic critique; and secondly by suggesting a holistic view of health three existing paradigms of health—the mechanistic, liberalistic and the politico-economic—have been discussed. From here the book proceeds to build a holistic paradigm of health. The holistic meaning, besides physical fitness, includes a peaceful state of mind and social consiousness, without which society can neither build a genuine health care programme nor ensure positive relationship between health care financing and health status. Such a comprehensive perspective integrates mechanistic, objective as well as subjective determinants of health. In the history of health care, the concept of health has progressively widened, first from purely microscopic to socioscopic and thereafter to culturoscopic dimensions. Holism contains them all—the body, mind, society and the total human personality. The book suggests a holistic health care perspective for promoting health and peace. “This work should lead to wider vision of health, to what the author calls Holistic Health Paradigm....â€

This book elucidates Gandhian theory and practice of development. It is an attempt also in mixing Gandhian ideas with social science concepts from the disciplines of sociology, social anthropology, modern communication theory and professional social work by an academic interpreter, analyst and practice oriented author who has chosen themes and issues dear to Gandhi such as rural development, alcoholism and prohibition along with concept of leadership, peoples participation and the role of a catalyst who is an outsider to the community. The author has drawn upon his own field experience and research. It is a thought provoking book which will be liked with added interest by readers.

The problem of social integration has been discussed as viewed by the deaf themselves. The viewpoint of hearing members of the society who come into contact with the deaf has also been taken care of. The opinion of the employers about the employability of the non-hearing members of the society especially in the light of their firsthand experience makes this publication a significant contribution in its category. Besides the empirical information and analyses, the details have been illustrated with visual diagrams. To make it more realistic and useful some illustrations of the anatomy of the ear, sign language, etc., are also included in the book