Interrogating the notion of medical knowledge and public health practices in colonial India, this volume explores the complex encounters between Western medical systems and indigenous healing traditions during British rule. The book examines how colonial medical institutions functioned as instruments of both care and control, while indigenous practices retained their relevance among the masses. Through detailed case studies including W.M. Haffkine's plague vaccine campaigns, the Rockefelle...

The topic of affirmative action has long been one of the most complex and contentious issues in modern public discourse, touching on themes of justice, equality, race, and socioeconomic disparity. This new book provides a comprehensive philosophical examination of affirmative action by exploring its ethical, metaphysical, epistemological, and axiological dimensions. By delving into these varied frameworks, the author offers a balanced, thoughtful analysis of the arguments both for and agai...

Spanning seven decades of India’s independent history, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of the evolution of India’s Neighbourhood Policy. It examines the ideational and strategic choices of successive Indian Prime Ministers, highlighting how their leadership styles, ideologies, and decisions have shaped India’s engagement with its South Asian neighbours.Anchored in India’s colonial legacy, hegemonic aspirations, and strategic autonomy, the book adopts a holistic lens, t...

This edited volume presents a comprehensive exploration of smart and sustainable water management, combining urban hydrology, digital innovation, cybersecurity, and climate resilience. It covers rainwater harvesting, stormwater control, wastewater management, wetlands, aquifer recharge, and field-based environmental investigations alongside advanced themes such as IoT-enabled monitoring, AI-driven predictive modelling, blockchain governance, homomorphic encryption, and SCADA security. Blen...

Field‑Emission Vacuum Nanoelectronics: A Bird’s Eye View of Theory and Practical Applications explores the field in both theoretical and practical perspectives. Field‑emission devices have moved from specialized applications to become potential candidates for a future beyond‑complementary metal‑oxide‑semiconductor (CMOS) circuits, offering superior performance at extreme temperatures, in harsh environments, and at high frequencies, due to their reliance on ballistic transport in v...

With the quick advancement of web technology and network applications, protecting digitized information from unwanted access and modification has become a critical problem in today’s digital world. The security issue in electronic media has presented a complex challenge, initiating the development of cryptographic algorithms incorporating Chaos theory and secret sharing schemes. Chaos theory and secret sharing have been used to develop various multimedia application encryption strategies. ...

Metagenomics for Legume Crop Improvement offers a comprehensive and timely exploration of the enormous potential hidden within legume-associated microbial communities. Legumes play a crucial role in global food security and sustainable agriculture due to their natural symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing and plant growth–promoting microbes. Yet, despite their significance, the microbiomes surrounding legumes remain poorly understood. This book aims to bridge that gap by...

In this luminous collection, Jegadeesh Kumar brings together stories that traverse continents and states of mind: moving from the quiet stretches of America to the wind‑struck islands of the Maldives, from the layered textures of India to speculative worlds shaped by imagination. With prose that is rich, precise, and quietly philosophical, Jegadeesh reveals the subtle tensions and fragile hopes that define the human condition. His mastery of narrative craft allows readers not merely to obs...

Resilience and Recovery of Hospitality and Tourism: Challenges, Synthesis and Agendas presents a comprehensive analysis of how the tourism and hospitality industry can recover and thrive in a post-pandemic world. The book introduces the concept of resilience and explores key challenges, including workforce development, leadership and the effective use of data-driven sustainable models. It highlights threats to resilience and identifies predictors that enable adaptation to evolving...

An emerging concept in tourism, smart tourism is the integration of smart technology and tourism for seamless, personalized, and sustainable travel experience. This new volume, Smart Tourism: Managing Technological Revolution in the Tourism Industry, delves into the realm of smart tourism and explores how advances in technology is shaping the landscape of travel and hospitality.This book unravels the complexities of smart tourism, examining the integration of artificial in...

The rapid evolution of biotechnology has ushered in an era in which the genome is no longer viewed as a static blueprint, but as a dynamic and editable system. The Genome Editing Frontier: Emerging Methods and Applications offers a comprehensive and forward-looking exploration of this transformation, tracing the field’s progression from foundational molecular tools to today’s high-precision, AI-integrated genome engineering platforms. The book presents an integrat...

In today’s era, Large Language Models (LLMs) are advanced AI systems that are trained on large amounts of text data, to understand and generate human-like language. These systems built on transformer architectures have evolved from traditional NLP (Natural Language Processing) models to powerful tools that enable tasks like translation, summarization, coding, and conversational agents, etc., to make human life easier and convenient. Today we have different types of LLMs models in different...