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Kashyap was honorary constitutional advisor to the Government of India on Panchayati Raj Laws and Institutions. He is also recipient of several prestigious awards for the Best Books in Constitution, Law and Political Science. At present Dr. Kashyap is an honorary research professor at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), New Delhi. He was also ...
The division into 15, 150, and 180 of books, chapters and topics respectively was probably not accidental, states Olivelle, because ancient authors of major Hindu texts favor certain numbers, such as 18 Parvas in the epic Mahabharata. [42] The largest book is the second, with 1,285 sentences, while the smallest is eleventh, with 56 sentences.
Nitisara contains 20 sargas (chapters) and 36 prakarans. It is based on the Arthasastra of Kautilya and deals with various social elements such as theories of social order, structure of the state, obligations of the ruler, governmental organization, principles and policies of the government, interstate relationships, ethics of envoys and spies, application of different political expedients ...
Dr. Gustav Oppert, who was the first to compile and edit the original work of Shukracharya's Shukranīti in Sanskrit, placed the origin of the work to the Vedic period. . According to some scholarly interpretations, the Shukranīti is frequently mentioned in Hindu epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata and was originally written by Brahma in a voluminous 100,000 chapters, which later was reduced ...
Robert Ian (Bob) Tricker (born 1933) [1] is an expert in corporate governance who wrote the first book to use the title corporate governance in 1984, [2] based on his research at Nuffield College, Oxford. He was also the founder-editor of the research journal Corporate Governance: An International Review (1993). [3]
Issues relating to good governance and accountability to the citizens including the maintenance of human rights, and of probity in public life. Environmental issues, ecological preservation, conservation of natural resources, and national heritage. India's diversity, unity amidst diversity and pluralism as a part of the functioning of Indian ...
The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC; ISO: Saṁgha Loka Sevā Āyoga) is a constitutional body tasked with recruiting officers for All India Services and the Central Civil Services (Group A and B) through various standardized examinations. [1] In 2023, 1.3 million applicants competed for just 1,255 positions. [2]
Chapter 4: "The New Challenges for Governance: Social Networks, Megacities, and the Global Scattering of Productive Capabilities" brings older governance debates into the 21st century. Chapter 5: "Intelligent Governance: Tenets and Template" is an exercise in political imagination that proposes an institutional design for a middle way between ...