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    <title>country of first boys and other essays</title>
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    <title>Country of first boys</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Sen, Amartya</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1933-</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Dev Sen, Antara.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Kanjilal, Pratik.</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Oxford University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2015</dateIssued>
    <edition>1st ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>li, 276 p.</extent>
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  <abstract>Intrigued by the questions of social justice and welfare, Amartya Sen argues, in this book, some of the vital issues-poverty, hunger, education, globalization, media and freedom of speech, injustice, inequality, exclusion, exploitation, etc. - we negotiate with in our day to day lives.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Introduction by Gopalkrishna Gandhi -- What Should Keep Us Awake at Night -- Poverty, War and Peace -- The Country of First Boys -- Sharing the World: Interdependence and Global Justice -- Sunlight and Other Fears: The Importance of School Education as a Source of Nourishment for India Children -- Speaking of Freedom: Why Media Is Important for Economic Developmen -- Hunger: Old Torments and New Blunders -- The Smallness Thrust Upon Us -- The Play's the Thing -- India Through Its Calendars -- What Difference Can Tagore Make.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Amartya Sen ; edited by Antara Dev Sen, Pratik Kanjilal.</note>
  <note>Most previously published in The Little Magazine.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and indexes.</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Social problems</topic>
    <geographic>India</geographic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Social justice</topic>
    <geographic>India</geographic>
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  <subject>
    <geographic>India</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">DS437 .S46 2015</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780199453252 (hardback)</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">019945325X (hardback)</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780198738183 (hardback)</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">0198738188 (hardback)</identifier>
  <identifier type="lccn">2015487395</identifier>
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