Rural India in Transition
Author: A.R. Desai
Publisher: Popular Prakashan
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9788171540167
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Critical Perspectives on Agrarian Transition
Author: B. B. Mohanty
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-01-29
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 131731039X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book evaluates the relevance of classical debates on agrarian transition and extends the horizon of contemporary debates in the Indian context, linking national trends with regional experiences. It identifies new dynamics in agrarian political economy and presents a comprehensive account of diverse aspects of capitalist transition both at theoretical and empirical levels. The essays discuss several neglected domains in agricultural economics such as discursive dimensions of agrarian relations and limitations of stereotypical binaries between capital and non-capital, rural and urban sectors, agriculture and industry, and accumulation and subsistence. With contributions from major scholars in the field, this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of agriculture, economics, political economy, sociology, rural development and development studies.
Claiming the State
Author: Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-08-16
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1108187978
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCitizens around the world look to the state for social welfare provision, but often struggle to access essential services in health, education, and social security. This book investigates the everyday practices through which citizens of the world's largest democracy make claims on the state, asking whether, how, and why they engage public officials in the pursuit of social welfare. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in rural India, Kruks-Wisner demonstrates that claim-making is possible in settings (poor and remote) and among people (the lower classes and castes) where much democratic theory would be unlikely to predict it. Examining the conditions that foster and inhibit citizen action, she finds that greater social and spatial exposure - made possible when individuals traverse boundaries of caste, neighborhood, or village - builds citizens' political knowledge, expectations, and linkages to the state, and is associated with higher levels and broader repertoires of claim-making.
Transition and Development in India
Author: Anjan Chakrabarti
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1136705732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccording to Nehru, the transition from a backward agricultural society to a modern industrialized society was the only road for India to progress. So, for the past few decades, India has focused its transitional development around movement away from a state-controlled economy toward that of a free market economy. Transition and Development in India challenges the current basis of this theory of development, laying the groundwork for an entirely new Marxist approach to transition that should apply not just to India, but to all developing nations.
Indian Writings in English
Author: Manmohan Krishna Bhatnagar
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9788171568765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndian English Literature In Both Its Matter And Manner Incorporates Continuity With Change, An Unquestioned Commitment To Some Basic Tenets Of The Traditional Blended With A Reaching Out To Explore The New, A Shifting Of The Focus To The Individual And The Personal But Without Severing Of Links With The Familial And The Societal.The Scholarly Studies, Specially Written For This Volume, Explore Indian English Poets And Novelists To Arrive At Diverse Revealing Insights, Hitherto Unexperienced, From This Penetrating Perspective. The Writers Taken Up For Analysis Include Kamala Das, A.K. Ramanujan, R. Parthasarathy, Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Kamala Markandaya, Manohar Malgonkar, Anita Desai, Arundhati Roy And Others.Painstaking Perusal Of The Modern And The Mythical In Seminal Works Of Indian English Literature, Taken Up Individually And Also As Part Of The Writer S Oeuvre.A Critical Introduction To Indian English Poetry And Fiction. A Sustained Study Of Recent Publications Of Seminal Significance. A Source Book For Sociologists And Critics, Teachers And Scholars, Students And Lay Readers. An Indispensable Compendium For Further Studies In Indian English Poetry And Fiction.
From Farm to Firm
Author:
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0821386239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe process of rural-urban transformation presents both opportunities and challenges for development. If managed effectively, it can result in growth that benefits everyone; if managed poorly, it can lead to stark welfare disparities and entire regions cut off from the advantages of agglomeration economies. The importance of rural-urban transition has been confirmed by two consecutive World Development Reports: WDR 2008 Agriculture for Development; and WDR 2009 Reshaping Economic Geography. Focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, this book picks up where the WDRs left off, investigating the influence of country conditions and policies on the pace, pattern, and consequences of rural-urban transition and suggesting strategies to ensure that its benefits results in shared improvements in well-being. The book uncovers vast inequalities, whether between two regions of one country, between rural and urban areas, or within cities themselves. The authors find little evidence to suggest that these inequalities will automatically diminish as countries develop: empirical and qualitative analysis suggests that spatial divides are mainly a function of country conditions, policies and institutions. By implication, policymakers must take active steps to ensure that rural-urban transition results in shared growth. Spatially unbiased provision of health and education services is crucial to ensuring that the benefits of transition are shared by all. But connective infrastructure and targeted interventions also emerge as important considerations, even in countries with severely constrained fiscal and administrative capacity. The authors suggest steps for navigating the tricky political economy of land reforms. And they alert readers to potential spillover effects that mean that policies designed for one space can have unintended consequences on another. Policymakers and development experts, as well as anyone concerned with the impact of rural-urban transition on growth and equity, will find this book a thought-provoking and informative read.
Migration and Urban Transition in India
Author: R. B. Bhagat
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2020-05-04
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 100007269X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMigration has emerged as an important issue in contemporary global politics and in the discourse around human development. This book highlights the role of migration in socioeconomic development and its interdependence with urbanization, employment, labour and industry. This volume identifies the challenges which migration and the subsequent dynamism in population and spatial parameters pose to land-use patterns, ecology, social politics and international relations. Through a study of migration patterns and trends in different parts of India, this collection analyzes the relationship of migration with social and occupational mobility, poverty and wealth indices, inequality, distribution of resources and demographic change. It also explores policy measures and frameworks which can bring migration into the fold of national development strategies. Timely and comprehensive, the book underscores the importance of migration and urbanization, sustainability and inclusivity to economic growth and development. It will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of migration studies, political studies, sociology, urban studies, development studies and political sociology.
Bridging the Education Divide Using Social Technologies
Author: Somprakash Bandyopadhyay
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-02-06
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9813367385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explains the concept of education divide in rural India and identifies various factors that shape and sustain such a divide. In doing so, it also discusses a range of attempts undertaken to bridge the education divide. Subsequently, the book has attempted in providing a socio-technical framework towards optimally deploying social technologies for addressing the issue of education divide of marginalized communities. The proposed framework offers a transition from traditional content-centric, teacher-centric and centralized education ecosystem to a connection-centric, learner-centric and decentralized education ecosystem of the socio-digital age. It demonstrates how Internet-enabled digital platforms, based on the principles of sharism and mass collaboration using social technologies, could help to solve one of the greatest problems facing the world: mitigating the extant education divide by delivering quality education to underprivileged sections of society. The book also presents empirical validation of the proposed framework to show how a community-driven blended learning platform can mobilize the dormant knowledge capital of domain experts to teach underprivileged rural Indian children, as well as help form communities of practice to enable lifelong learning for the rural adult population. The book closes by pointing out the challenges involved in building an equitable education ecosystem using social technologies and ultimately the possibility of creating a fair and equitable society. Given its scope, the book offers a valuable resource for researchers, policymakers and practitioners in the domain of education who want to transform education ecosystems by using technological and process-related innovations to improve educational practices for underprivileged sections of society.
Indian Tribes in Transition
Author: Yogesh Atal
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2015-12-14
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1317336313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndia has witnessed a sea change in its social structure and political culture since Independence. Despite the developmental model that the country opted for, the hangover of the Raj continued to encourage fissiparous tendencies dividing the Indian populace on the basis of religion, ethnicity and caste hierarchy. This book argues for the need to develop a fresh approach to dismantling the stereotypes that have boxed the study of India’s tribal communities. It underlines the significance of region-specific strategies in place of an overarching umbrella scheme for all Indian tribes. The author studies tribes in the context of changing political and social identity, gender, extremism, caste dimensions, development issues, and offers a new perspective on tribes to accommodate the diversity and transformations within culture over time and through globalization. Lucid, accessible and rooted in contemporary realities, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of sociology and social anthropology, tribal studies, subaltern and third world studies, and politics.
Rural India
Author: G. K. Puranik
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13:
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