THE POLITICS OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY AND ACCESS TO MEDICINES
World Pharmacy and India

Edited by Hans Löfgren

“… this extremely well written and edited book deals with the threats and challenges related to access to pharmaceuticals at national and global level eg TRIPS plus agendas, ACTA , FTAs in the time to come . It is a must read for those dealing with public policies , public health, access to medicines, equity in health in India and in developing countries "

Dr Mira Shiva, M.D.

Health Action International ( Asia Pacific ) and 

Peoples Health Movement

"…. The authors are well informed, and several are themselves personally engaged in the litigation or policy debates they describe. The Book provides a useful report on many different initiatives and controversies, presenting relevant facts and a number of shrewd insights. The strongest parts of the book are the detailed reports on counties or regions, several of which focus on India -- the most important country as regards the global supply of generic medicines. I learned a great deal from each chapter of the book."

James Love

Director, Knowledge Ecology International

Washington 

The pharmaceutical industry presents one of India’s most successful stories of economic expansion and improvements in public health. Indian firms have made access to quality medicines possible and affordable in many developing countries. Indian pharmaceuticals are also exported on a large scale to the United States and other highly regulated markets. A wave of mergers, acquisitions and tie-ups point to growing integration between Indian firms and global pharma multinationals.

The Politics of the Pharmaceutical Industry and Access to Medicines: World Pharmacy and India examines this important industry from different economic, social and political perspectives. Topics covered include the implications of TRIPS-compliant intellectual property rights, the role of flexibilities under TRIPS, the market regulation system, the role of Indian firms in exporting HIV/AIDS medications to Africa, the issue of free trade agreements, the power and reach of foreign pharmaceutical multinationals in India’s domestic market, and the sustainability of India as a major generics supplier.

Hans Lofgren is Associate Professor in Politics and Policy Studies, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. His publications include, with P. Sarangi (eds) The Politics and Culture of Globalisation: India and Australia (Social Science Press, New Delhi, 2009); with M. Leahy & E. de Leeuw (eds) Democratising Health: Consumer Groups in the Policy Process (Edward Elgar, 2011).

CONTENTS:
1. The Politics of the Pharmaceutical Industry and Access to Medicines - Hans Löfgren
2. Challenges of Regulation of Medicines in India - S. Srinivasan & Anant Phadke
3. CIPLA: Patients before Patents - Neelam Raaj
4. Systemic Failure of Regulation: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical and Bulk Drug Manufacturing - G. Vijay
5. TRIPS Flexibilities and Access to Patented Medicines in India - Narayanan Lalitha
6. India’s Free Trade Agreements : Implications for Access to Medicines in India and the Global South - Kajal Bhardwaj
7. At any price? Boehringer Ingelheim, Bayer HealthCare and Baxter in India - Christiane Fischer and Claudia Jenkes
8. Trends and Prospects for India as a Global Generic Player - Deepak Kumar Jena & Poduri Balaram
9. The Indian Patent Law and Access to Antiretroviral Drugs in Sub-Saharan Africa - Christiane Fischer
10. Accessing Medicines in Developing Economies - Tu Thanh Nguyen
11. The Politics of AIDS Treatment in Brazil - André de Mello e Souza
12. Financing Pharmaceutical Research and Development: Alternatives to the Patent System - Philip Soos and Hans Lofgren
13. Post-script - Hans Löfgren

368pp | 215x140 mm | Hardback
Pub price: Rs 725
ISBN 978-81-87358-66-4
MEDICINE, ECONOMICS
Pub date: Nov 2012

ECONOMICS AND ITS STORIES
Amal Sanyal
"Amal Sanyal is an economist with enormous academic and policy experience. His telling of economics and its stories is sure to educate and entertain, and so draw more young people to the subject."

Debraj Ray Silver Professor, Faculty of Arts and Science, and

Professor of Economics, New York University, New York.

"This book introduces the basic ideas of economics along with their historical context; and narrates how the subject has grown and acquired its present shape. The author has succeeded in presenting the ideas and issues in a highly accessible manner; as well as in providing the reader with the multiplicity of viewpoints which exist regarding them. This highly readable book should prove to be useful not only to Economics students but to anyone interested in knowing about the core ideas of economics and their historical development"

Satish JainProfessor, Reserve Bank of India Chair in Economic Theory,Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Economics and its Stories demystifies technical terminology and goes to the heart of the matter.

The narrative of the book starts with the birth of economics from societal anxieties of pre-industrial Europe. It then follows up its growth into a self-conscious and assertive discipline. Along with the account, Amal Sanyal, with his characteristic lucidity of style, is able to breathe life into the colourful 18th, 19th and 20th century gurus such as Smith, Ricardo, Marx, Walras, Keynes. The narrative strings together the events and traditions of the era of these mentors with the economics they developed and controversies around them. In the process the book explains the concepts that are indispensable for understanding our economic world today.

Economics and its Stories has chapters on the theory of markets; market failure and the role of the government; the labour market and unemployment; money and finance; international economics and globalisation; and economic development.

The book should appeal to the interested reader as well as students of economics.

CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ix
1. Introduction 1
2. Markets, Efficiency, and Adam Smith 23
3. Many Forms of Market: Sellers Big and Small 53
4. Markets Often Fail and So Do Governments 90
5. Unemployment and J.M. Keynes 116
6. After Keynes 148
7. Money, Banks, and Finance 175
8. Trade, Foreign Investment and Migration 217
9. Economic Growth and Development 262
10. Conclusion 316
Index 323

Amal Sanyal teaches economics at Lincoln University, New Zealand. He has taught and interacted with many other universities, including Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where he has worked for many years. He held the State Bank of India Chair on public policy for some time and was an economic advisor to the government of Mauritius for a number of years. Sanyal has very wide research interests and has published a large number of research articles and a few books. His current research includes issues of governance, corruption and public policy.
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332pp | 215x140 mm | Hardback
Published price: Rs 650
ISBN 978-81-87358-55-8
ECONOMICS, BUSINESS STUDIES
Pub date 16 July 2012

EVERYDAY NATIONALISM

Women of the Hindu Right in India

  Kalyani Devaki Menon

 "Menon argues that central to the popularity and success of Hindu nationalism is its willingness to accommodate groups whose beliefs and practices may be incongruous with the movement's mainstream. . . . An excellent study of a timely issue."
—Choice


"Everyday Nationalism is an important book for understanding the dynamics and rationale of hindutva ideology. Kalyani Menon's brilliant reconstruction reveals women as the key to the Hindu nationalist goal to establish India as a Hindu nation."
—Missiology: An International Review


"Menon provides a vivid portrait of the everyday lives of Hindu nationalist women. A witty, candid, unassuming ethnographer, she combines critical self-reflection with critical insights into the women she studies. Everyday Nationalism is an important contribution to scholarship in women's studies, South Asian studies, and anthropology."
—Amrita Basu, Amherst College

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272pp  215x140 mm  Hardback   4 illustrations

Published  price Rs 650

ISBN 978-81-87358-68-8

  Pub date May 2012
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To understand the expansionary power of Hindu nationalism, Kalyani Menon argues, it is critical to examine the everyday constructions of politics and ideology through which activists garner support at the grassroots level. Based on fieldwork with women in several Hindu nationalist organizations, Menon explores how these activists use gendered constructions of religion, history, national insecurity, and social responsibility to recruit individuals from a variety of backgrounds. As Hindu nationalism extends its reach to appeal to increasingly diverse groups, she explains, it is forced to acknowledge a multiplicity of positions within the movement. She argues that Hindu nationalism's willingness to accommodate dissonance is central to understanding the popularity of the movement.
Everyday Nationalism contends that the Hindu nationalist movement's power to attract and maintain constituencies with incongruous beliefs and practices is key to its growth. The book reveals that the movement's success is facilitated by its ability to become meaningful in people's daily lives, resonating with their constructions of the past, appealing to their fears in the present, presenting itself as the protector of the country's citizens, and inventing traditions through the use of Hindu texts, symbols, and rituals to unite people in a sense of belonging to a nation.


Contents


Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Chapter One: Everyday Histories
Chapter Two: National Insecurities
Chapter Three: Violent Dharma
Chapter Four: Benevolent Hindus
Chapter Five: Fun, Games, and Deadly Politics
Chapter Six: Acceptable Transgressions
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments


Kalyani Devaki Menon teaches religious studies at DePaul University.

REISSUED

‘WHEN THE WAR BEGAN WE HEARD OF SEVERAL KINGS’

South Asian Prisoners in World War I Germany

282 pages 215x140 mm Hardback with illustrations CD-ROM included

Published price Rs 695

ISBN 978-81-87358-43-5

HISTORY, SOCIOLOGY, POLITICS, GERMAN STUDIES, WAR STUDIES

Pub Date January 2012

‘Soldiers don’t speak; they are spoken to. In this fascinating collection of disturbing essays Indian soldiers who survived the killing fields of World War I (serving a colonial King and Country) are made to speak to us directly as POWs from German camps. … A stunning achievement of empathetic modern German scholarship. Going to India Gate in New Delhi (built to commemorate the Indian soldiers of the Great War) will never be the same again.’

Shahid Amin
Delhi University

‘This is a valuable collection of articles that gives access to a rich archive in the German language, which had remained largely inaccessible to an Anglophone readership . The use of that archive can help broaden the approach to the problem of the participation of Indian soldiers in the First World War on the Western front, a topic which has not yet attracted sufficient scholarly attention.’

Claude Markovits
Centre d'Etudes de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

The age of catastrophe devoured lives from many parts of the globe. Yet the ‘Great War’ also occasioned new encounters and experiences. Never before had ten thousands of non-elite South Asians moved across Europe. About two thousand of them, mostly sailors and soldiers who hailed from villages in Bengal, Nepal, the Northwest Frontier and Punjab, were held for years in German prison camps. They attracted the close attention of army officers, diplomats and secret agents, of emigrant revolutionaries like Har Dayal and Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, of German artists, academics and industrialists. The captives made sense of these unusual encounters in their own ways. This volume approaches their difficult engagements from various angles. It introduces and makes available rich German archives as yet unknown to the non-German speaking world.

The CD Rom attached to this book goes beyond the written word. It includes the Hindi and Urdu editions of the propagandistic camp journal Hindostan, transcripts of sound recordings in which the sailors and soldiers speak in their native tongues about their experiences as they are taken from place to place, perhaps in the hope that these might reach their families. There is nostalgia in their voices as they sing songs about their homes, while acutely critical comments on their lives in ‘vilayat’ give the lie to the notion of the apolitical peasant-soldier.

The CD Rom also includes pictorial documents of paintings by the soldiers, and some powerful photographs of war camps in Zossen and Wünsdorf. The CD Rom also carries the Bibliography which is a special feature of this book. It is both extensive and rich, covering rare books which will be of enormous value to scholars and interested readers.

Contents
Introduction: Franziska Roy, Heike Liebau

Part I: Histories of the Prisoners
Lost Engagements? Traces of South Asian Soldiers in German Captivity, 1915 -1918: Ravi Ahuja
South Asian Civilian Prisoners of War in First World War Germany : Franziska Roy
The German Foreign Office, Indian Emigrants and Propaganda Efforts Among the ‘Sepoys’ : Heike Liebau
German Perceptions of Enemy Colonial Troops, 1914–1918 : Christian Koller
South Asian Soldiers and German Academics: Anthropological, Linguistic and Musicological Field Studies in Prison Camps: Britta Lange

Part II: Histories of the Sources
Recordings of South Asian Languages and Music in the Lautarchiv of the Humboldt University Berlin : Jürgen Mahrenholz
Indian Prisoners of War in World War One – Photographs as Source Material: Margot Kahleyss
Hindostan - A Camp Newspaper for South-Asian Prisoners of World War One in Germany: Heike Liebau

Short Biographies
Archival Collections
Abbreviations
Index of Persons
Index of Places

CD ROM
Introduction
The Camp newspaper Hindostan Hindi edition
The Camp newspaper Hindostan Urdu edition
Voices of the Prisoners: Files and Recordings from the Lautararchiv, Berlin
List of Recordings and Personal Details of South Asian Prisoners in the Lautarchiv, Berlin
Photos from the Prisoner of War Camps in Zossen and Wünsdorf
Bibliography

Franziska Roy is doctoral candidate at the Department of History of the University of Warwick.
Heike Liebau is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Modern Oriental Studies (Berlin).
Ravi Ahuja is professor of modern Indian history and the director of the Centre for Modern Indian Studies at the University of Göttingen.

4 VICTORIA TERRACE
Memoirs of a Surgeon
Subir K. Chatterjee
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288pp 12 Illustrations 215x140 mm Hardback
ISBN 978-81-87358-63-3
Pub price Rs 625
SOCIOLOGY OF MEDICINE, MEDICAL TRAVELOGUE
Pub date Jan 2012
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‘This is an account of the journey through life of one of the foremost paediatric surgeons in this country. To those of a similar vintage it will evoke fond memories of a late twentieth century Calcutta, where there was stylish living, albeit for a few, and a surgical career path that has all but disappeared which consisted of a basic degree here followed by further training in the United Kingdom culminating in the passing of the dreaded and prestigious FRCS examination. Many then went to the United States for advanced training as did the author where he worked with many of the greats in the field.’

Samiran Nundy, Department of Surgical Gastroenterology and Liver Transplant, 

Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi

‘It is an honour and a serious responsibility to be asked to introduce Subir Chatterjee's Memoirs…. His book is a remarkable account of a life outstanding for its achievements from trainee surgeon struggling with the Fellowship of theEnglish College of Surgeons to Honorary Member of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons and becoming a major figure in world paediatric surgery…. I commend it highly to all who know Subir and equally to those who will come to know him through its pages.’

James A. S. Dickson FRCS Ed. & Eng. FRCPCH, Emeritus Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, 

Sheffield Children's Hospital and Honorary Member The British Association of Paediatric Surgeons

4 Victoria Terrace: Memoirs of a Surgeon covers tumultuous times in recent history, beginning from the later years of British Rule. Rarely does one come across a doctor’s account of what it meant to experience and handle human tragedies of the magnitude of the Bengal Famine or the Partition of the country.

Apart from being a doctor’s travelogue, there is hardly any major city in the world that Dr Chatterjee has not visited, this book also unfolds an extremely perceptive description of one of our most important social institutions: medical colleges and hospitals. We also get an inside view of the medical profession itself, one of the most politicized at every level, but not without enduring friendships and knowledge sharing.

These pages contain some tragic stories of dedicated brilliant doctors, who become the victims of their own profession. There are also accounts of almost miraculous surgery that saves patients, all but dead, and often just a few hours old.

The book ends with a reflection on the ethical dilemmas inherent in the medical profession in general and pediatric surgery in particular.

Professor Subir K. Chatterjee is a major figure in world pediatric surgery and has pioneered the speciality in the eastern region of the country, especially, in the city of Calcutta (now Kolkata) and continues at 85 years to dedicate his life to treating patients and teaching surgery to his students. Some of his students have become leaders in their fields. Professor Chatterjee has authored numerous learned papers in national and international journals and is also the author of Anorectal Malformations (Oxford and Delhi, 2006).

Contents
Prologue: Two Memorable Days
1. My Homes
2. My School
3. My College
4. Life in the UK
5. My Hospitals: Nil Ratan Sarkar Medical College, Calcutta
6. My Hospitals: Ramkrishna Mission Seva Pratisthan, Calcutta
7. Pediatric Surgery, My Passport: North America and Europe
8. Pediatric Surgery, My Passport: Australia, Africa and Asia
9 . Indian Travelogue
10. The Park
11. Park Medical Research Centre
12. Ethical Dilemmas of Pediatric Practice

New from Social Science Press

THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS REVOLUTION

Mobile Value Added Services in India

Mukesh Kumar and Ram Kumar Kakani

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412pp 215x140 mm Hardback 14 illustrations

Published price Rs 695

ISBN 978-81-87358-61-9

TELECOMMUNICATIONS, BUSINESS STUDIES

Pub date Jan 2012

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‘Professor Ram Kumar Kakani is one of India’s most respected academics /researchers in the field of business. This is a well researched work. It starts with introducing the Telecommunications sector, then analyses all relevant domestic and global aspects, focusing on the impact of technological advancement and regulatory environment on mobile value added services (mVAS). Finally, it proposes possible business models and future scenarios of Indian mVAS industry. In fact to my knowledge no book from India achieved all this.’

Professor Debashis Chatterjee

Director,

IIM Kozhikode

‘After reading this compelling work, the reader will appreciate the evolving linkages and associated uncertainties in the emerging Indian mVAS industry. The authors seamlessly demystify the complex and evolving linkages of technology, regulator, and savvy entrepreneurship led models. The sections on Business Modeling and Scenario Planning lead the reader to appreciate the complicated maze of the mVAS sector. It is a must-read book for telecom professionals, policy makers and management studies students.’

R K Mishra

Principal Advisor, TRAI

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The telecommunications industry continues to grow at a formidable pace and within it, the mobile value added services (mVAS) industry displays impressive potential for influencing the lives of millions of people. Driven by technology and innovation, experts believe that the mVAS industry has even greater possibilities than electronic commerce (e-Commerce). The role of technologies and regulations is taken into account in the analysis of the Indian mobile telecom industry. This is followed by proposing possible business models and future scenarios for mVAS in India.

The Telecommunications Revolution: Mobile Value Added Services in India studies the mVAS industry in depth. It compares mVAS trends in India with those in other parts of the world like the USA and Europe, Japan, South Korea and China.

This lucidly written book will be of great interest not only to the student of telecommunications and business studies, but also to policy makers, industry professionals and the interested general reader.

Contents

Section I: Introduction

1. Introduction to Indian Telecommunications Industry

2. Unwinding of Telecom Technical Jargon

3. Mobile Economics

Section II: Mobile VAS Industry in India and Other Markets

4. Mobile Value Added Services (mVAS) Industry: Young offspring of Mobile Industry

5. India in a Global Context

Section III: Role of Technologies and Regulations

6. Role of Technologies in shaping the mVAS Industry

7. Role of Regulation in shaping the mVAS Industry

Section IV: The Analysis of Indian Mobile Telecommunications with focus on VAS

8. Indian Mobile industry: An Empirical Analysis

9. The Mobile VAS Industry: Structure, Value Chain and Stakeholders

Section V: Business Models and Scenario Planning

10. Business Models in the mVAS Industry

11. Future of the Mobile VAS Industry in India

Mukesh Kumar works with the Department of Telecommunications (DOT) and belongs to the Indian Telecom Service (ITS), Government of India. His work background combined with his endeavour at XLRI resulted in his research interests into the world of technology based business modeling especially in mobile telephony. Presently he is working in the capacity of DGM in Kolkata Service Area (KSA), BSNL and has been overseeing wireline Broadband networks and services. He has also been instrumental in introducing Fibre To The Home (FTTH) service in KSA.

Ram Kumar Kakani is Associate Professor in Strategic Management and Finance at XLRI Jamshedpur. His areas of interest include Business Analysis, Business Groups, Corporate Finance and Strategy brought forth by the empirical work on the Indian corporate sector. He has co-authored many text books and other books including the popular Corporate Finance (8/e), Financial Accounting for Management (3/e), and Strategic Thinking. He has also published cases and papers in refereed publications including AI & Society, Decision, Innovation Journal, and Richard Ivey Case Bank.