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Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- In Praise of the Book -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Editorial Notes -- Prologue -- I. Sangh's Fight for Democracy During Emergency -- II. Major Defining Moments in RSS History -- Part I - THE SPIRIT -- Extracts of RSS Constitution -- III. What Defines India -- IV. Need to Organise Hindus -- V. Daily RSS Prayer and its Meaning -- Part II - THE FORM -- VI. Shakha -- VII. Inculcating Values and Sense of Nationhood through Festivals -- VIII. Supremacy of Mission Over Self -- IX. Human Relations and Management Training -- X. Organisational Structure -- XI. Institution of Prachaarak -- Part III - THE MANIFESTATION -- XII. Off shoots -- Sister/Associate Organisations -- XIII. Nation, Society and RSS -- Second Line of Command -- Positive Force of Social Harmony -- Duty Towards Society - Seva -- Defending and Nurturing Hindu Faith -- XIV. Current scenario -- EPILOGUE -- XV. The Ultimate Secret -- XVI. Secretiveness of RSS and Media -- References -- Readings -- ANNEXURE -- Annexure I - Sarsanghchaalaks of RSS -- Annexure II - 1942, Quite India Agitation and RSS -- Annexure III - Background of Ban on RSS in 1948 -- Annexure IV - Exchanges Between RSS, Patel and Nehru -- Annexure V - Satyagraha Against 1948 Ban and its Successful Culmination -- About the Author

The recent Cape Town drought and fear of a severe water crisis between 2015- 2018 was followed by a fast-tracked crisis management response. In line with a wider global trend, the City of Cape Town adopted a technology called 'reverse osmosis desalination' into the water supply mix. This 'water production' technology is alluring as it promises to be 'drought- proof', preserving a constant flow of water in times of increased climatic uncertainty. Yet, the implementation of water technologies in Cape Town continues to be a highly debated topic. Cape Town suffers from a longstanding legacy of uneven racialized infrastructure development practices, resulting in unequal water access and consumption. In this context of unequal water security across social groups and increased climatic vulnerability, it is important to carefully consider the implications of new water technologies if the desired outcome is a more sustainable and equitable water future. Drawing on urban political ecology, this dissertation explores the process in which the instalment of three temporary desalination plants and planning for permanent desalination in Cape Town emerged. This, in order to carefully consider its consequences for equitable water security. By utilizing secondary official city documents, reports and news articles from several credible news platforms, supported by a number of personally conducted semistructured interviews and secondary sourced interviews with City employees, this thesis aims to understand how desalination is constituted as a crisis response. This exploration is organized around analyzing the relationships and dynamics between various actors, the events that signified the processual nature of the adoption and the emergent effects for water access across the City. The findings reveal that the promise that desalination holds as a technical solution to climatic uncertainty undermines the / contradictions that evolve alongside the instalments. While desalination was pushed by the municipality as a drought relief technology for all citizens, the results show that the emergence of this technology came with frictions, as it was contested, ecologically disturbed and critically questioned by multiple actors. As my findings demonstrate, desalination triggers the emergence of exclusive decision-making processes and financial constraints, especially for vulnerable citizens. This thesis thus argues that desalination implies to only secure water for some, while intensifying water insecurity for the already vulnerable. While the City strives towards a "shared water future", the high focus on extending its water supply to meet growing demands lacks consideration of meeting existing demands, excluding the socio- political processes within current water decision making. This rather reinforces racialized- spatial and distributional inequities across a diverse range of social groups within the City.

The works of women writers of USA have become increasingly visible in the academy especially since 1970s because of their active involvement in contemporary women's movement. Writers like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker and poets like Maya Angelou and Adrienne Rich and others have been strongly greeted for their ideologies. Undoubtedly, their works echo strong resistance against racism, patriarchism and militarism. The present paper highlights the remedy of the various maladies like male dominance, subordinated identity and submissive life. It is said that 'every action has reaction' and these writers believe that '"FORTUNE FAVOURS THE BRAVE". So they have depicted the undaunted spirits among their female protagonists who fought bravely against the odds and eventually emerged victorious.

Gujarat and Himanchal these are the two states where elections held for the State Assembly simultaneously in 2017. Both the states have different socio-economic set ups besides that in their political institutions and processes there are some common characteristics. Bi-party system, gender inequality in political arena, accommodative trend of the diverse interest within the two parties and strong party leadership are prominent features of the state politics in both the states. Paper is an attempt to analyse the trends of state politics by comparing the socio economics ecologies and their impact on the state politics in Gujarat and Himachal. Entire study is based on the secondary data and personal observations of the researchers as primary data.