Since Partition, much study has been devoted to the causes of communal riots between Hindus and Muslims in India. Recently, some researchers have considered the effectiveness of strategies to prevent riots in local areas (e. g. Varshney 2002; Brass 2003). However, we need to examine the specific efforts of actors who have been involved in such communal riots. The purpose of this study is to look out how Hindu-Muslim riots prevention have been accomplished by local actors. This study sets out to answer, “How riot prevention efforts have been undertaken and developed in India?” The significance of this study is to discuss the different approaches to riots prevention, and to investigate the attitude of local police and communities through interview and observation in Bhiwandi and Mumbai, Maharashtra state.
The subject of this research is the Mohalla Committees have been engaged in patrolling, holding regular meetings, and organizing religious tolerance events to prevent communal riots between local police and citizens since the mid 1990's. This study considers the activities of the Mohalla Committees to be the good example through community policing in India.
Mohalla Committees enhanced the restoration of proper law enforcement, reformed policepublic relations, and promoted neighborhood contact to solve common issues between different religious communities. Meanwhile, developing cooperation within local communities towards the prevention of riots depends largely on the leadership qualities of the local police. There are some differences to respect the wishes of local citizens are employed in riot prevention.

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The mercantile community Marwaris built their residential mansions called havelis in their　hometowns of the Shekhawati region during the 1830s and 1930s. Most of the havelis are decorated with mural paintings that are divided into two phases-prior/posterior to 1900. It is generally considered that the murals prior to 1900 retain indigenous tradition while most of the murals after 1900 are inferior copies of prints, destructing indigenous tradition.
The iconographical analysis of the murals prior to 1900 suggests that they were influenced by contemporary popular culture such as Kalighat painting and Battala woodprint that were common in the colonial port city of Calcutta where the Marwaris had their economical strongholds. A perspective, in which pre-1900 murals are considered indigenous and traditional, can be indeed traced back to the cultural administration of the colonial power.
The murals after 1900, on the other hand, are dominated by the copies of newly emerged prints such as oleograph and chromolithograph. In terms of the impact of popular art, the haveli murals both prior/posterior to 1900 are stylistically continuous rather than disconnection of tradition/modernity. This stylistic development may also reflect the changing identity of the Marwaris from merchants to industrialists in colonial India

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The Indian Pharmaceutical Industry has succeeded import-substitution, has emerged as one of the major drug exporters and has showed a promise of its global competitiveness. There is no doubt that these measures like anti-patent policy under the Patent Act of 1970, drug policies and industrial policies which the government of India implemented since 1970 contributed to the growth of the industry. However, it is important to evaluate the corporate capability in examination of the industrial development. This paper seeks to examine the corporate capability of the Indian pharmaceutical industry through a case study of Ranbaxy Laboratories. The company developed its own business model suited to the policy framework of India's import substitution industrialization, and pursued the export oriented strategy since 1980s. The company has achieved sustainable growth by showing its corporate capability in the sense that the company understands the trends of policies, technologies, and market, transforms this information to commercial activities and achieves new business value creation through organisational innovation and technical innovation.

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This paper discusses the transfer of the Japanese ready-made garment corporation to Bangladesh after the global financial crisis following the theory of the New International Division of Labor. The main topics are 1) to study the factors as to why the Japanese ready-made garment corporations chose Bangladesh as a secondary transfer location from China, 2) to discuss the characteristics of the Bangladesh factory and analyze the organization, the production, and the labor process within the factory through the gender perspective. Some of the paper's findings are as follows: Bangladesh factories have characteristics of gener segregation and gender asymmetry. Men occupy every production officer position, for example, production managers, floor managers etc. In comparison, all women occupy a lower position within the factory and the majority are found to be sewing operators or helpers. A production officer has the authority to organize the garment line’s structure, allocate a person'sposition on the operation line, and determine the garment worker's salary. Thus, women have no authority within the factory. By analyzing the sixty-six different steps in the production of a pair of cheap shorts and the female factory worker's credentials, it was difficult to find the correlation between the female worker's working experiences, their sewing skills, and their monthly income. The Bangladesh garment industry is in strong competition with periphery Asian countries, in order to continue to stay in production and thrive, the Bangladesh factories must train female workers as production officers and start to re-build the corporation's organization from gender sensitive perspectives.

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