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Author: Barbara Harriss-White
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2004-07
Total Pages: 569
ISBN-13: 9781843317531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA profound analysis of a broad range of issues, providing a masterly overview of rural development in India.
Author: A. Narayanamoorthy
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788193732960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe doctoral students of the economist and teacher Venkatesh B. Athreya organized a seminar in his honor in January 2016. This book is a collection of the papers presented at that seminar and a few invited contributions on the theme of agriculture and rural India with special emphasis on the experience of economic reforms since the 1990s.
Author: Bhrigupati Singh
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015-04-06
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 022619468X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Indian subdistrict of Shahabad, located in the dwindling forests of the southeastern tip of Rajasthan, is an area of extreme poverty. Beset by droughts and food shortages in recent years, it is the home of the Sahariyas, former bonded laborers, officially classified as Rajasthan’s only “primitive tribe.” From afar, we might consider this the bleakest of the bleak, but in Poverty and the Quest for Life, Bhrigupati Singh asks us to reconsider just what quality of life means. He shows how the Sahariyas conceive of aspiration, advancement, and vitality in both material and spiritual terms, and how such bridging can engender new possibilities of life. Singh organizes his study around two themes: power and ethics, through which he explores a complex terrain of material and spiritual forces. Authority remains contested, whether in divine or human forms; the state is both despised and desired; high and low castes negotiate new ways of living together, in conflict but also cooperation; new gods move across rival social groups; animals and plants leave their tracks on human subjectivity and religiosity; and the potential for vitality persists even as natural resources steadily disappear. Studying this milieu, Singh offers new ways of thinking beyond the religion-secularism and nature-culture dichotomies, juxtaposing questions about quality of life with political theologies of sovereignty, neighborliness, and ethics, in the process painting a rich portrait of perseverance and fragility in contemporary rural India.
Author: Madhura Swaminathan
Publisher: Tulika Books
Published: 2019-12-31
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9788193926963
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book is a compilation of papers examining women's role in rural production systems in India. The book is divided into six sections that explore conceptual, theoretical, and methodological issues; primary and secondary data; and historical perspectives.
Author: Jyotsna Jha
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-20
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 0429647743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a book about understanding women’s empowerment and pathways as well as roadblocks to women’s economic empowerment in rural India, as understood through an evaluation-based research of a state-funded social sector programme located in the education department – Mahila Samakhya (MS) – in Bihar, one of the socially and educationally most underdeveloped Indian states. The book presents findings of the three-year research that adopted a mixed-methods approach and evaluated the impact of MS on various facets of empowerment of women coming from the most marginalized communities. The study, therefore, tries to go beyond evaluating the MS programme and uses the research findings and insights to raise certain critical issues pertaining to social policy planning and implementation, especially in the context of women’s education and empowerment. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
Author: Narendar Pani
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2021-11-29
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 100048632X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis original conceptualization provides insights into the role of inequality in the processes of change in rural India. It presents in-depth analyses and understanding of the nature and form of inequality, and its causes and consequences. The volume examines interpersonal, intergroup, and intrapersonal inequalities in the country’s rural transformation. Through research based on ethnographic, primary survey and secondary data methods, this multidimensional study discusses key themes such as normative and descriptive inequalities; class, caste and other identities; economic poverty; educational poverty; poverty in health; gendered poverty; inequality and power; the impact of migration; ethical issues and vulnerabilities; and suicidal consequences of inequality. It builds cohesive arguments, based on the development of several new indicators, to examine rural inequality. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of political economy, economics, development studies, development economics, sociology, public policy, political science, political sociology, and rural sociology.
Author: Ghanshyam Shah
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2006-08-04
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780761935070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis important book presents systematic evidence of the incidence and extent of the practice of untouchability in contemporary India. It is based on the results of a very large survey covering 560 villages in eleven states. The field data is supplemented by information concerning associated forms of discrimination which Dalits face in their daily lives./-//-/This study finds that untouchability is practised in one form or another in almost 80 per cent of the villages surveyed. It is most prevalent in the religious and personal spheres. While the evidence presented in this book suggests that the more blatant and extreme forms of untouchability appear to have declined, discrimination is still practised in one form or another. The most widespread manifestations are in access to water and to cremation or burial grounds, as also when it comes to the major life cycle rituals. The survey also found that the notion of untouchability continues to pervade the public sphere, including in a host of state institutions and the interactions that occur within them.
Author: A.R. Desai
Publisher: Popular Prakashan
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9788171540167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: A.R. Desai
Publisher: Popular Prakashan
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 994
ISBN-13: 9788171541546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Madaswamy Moni
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9788180695285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPapers presented at the Third International Conference on Rural India : achieving Millennium Development Goals and Grassroots Development, held at Hyderabad during 10-12 November 2005.
