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From individual to community [electronic resource] : issues in development studies : essays in memory of Malcolm Adiseshiah / edited by R. Maria Saleth.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi : SAGE India, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (276 p.)ISBN:
  • 9788132109907 (electronic bk.)
  • 8132109902 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: From Individual to Community : Issues in Development Studies Essays in Memory of Malcolm AdiseshiahDDC classification:
  • 307.14
LOC classification:
  • HN49.C6 F76 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Foreword; Preface; 1 -- Issues in Development Studies: An Overview; 2 -- Globalization: Its Portents for Indian Culture; 3 -- Growth of a Wasteland; 4 -- Whither the Indian Village? Culture and Agriculture in 'Rural' India; 5 -- Gender Inequalities: Neglected Dimensions and Hidden Facets; 6 -- Cultural Politics of Environment and Development: The Indian Experience; 7 -- State, Households and Markets in Education; 8 -- Development as a Human Right or as Political Largesse.
9 -- The Power of Uncertainty: Reflections on the Nature of Transformational Initiatives10 -- Lineages of Political Society; 11 -- The Politics of Social Justice; About the Editor and Contributors; Index.
Summary: From Individual to Community brings together a set of papers that provides critical commentaries on various facets of the ongoing process of development. The book addresses issues that concern developing countries--such as globalization, economic growth, rural transformation, gender equality, educational reforms and the Dalit movement--from a multidisciplinary perspective. Based on the theoretical framework of the normative principles, the book evaluates issues that are specifically relevant in the Indian context--rich versus poor, globalization versus sustainable development, and so on. Devoid o.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Foreword; Preface; 1 -- Issues in Development Studies: An Overview; 2 -- Globalization: Its Portents for Indian Culture; 3 -- Growth of a Wasteland; 4 -- Whither the Indian Village? Culture and Agriculture in 'Rural' India; 5 -- Gender Inequalities: Neglected Dimensions and Hidden Facets; 6 -- Cultural Politics of Environment and Development: The Indian Experience; 7 -- State, Households and Markets in Education; 8 -- Development as a Human Right or as Political Largesse.

9 -- The Power of Uncertainty: Reflections on the Nature of Transformational Initiatives10 -- Lineages of Political Society; 11 -- The Politics of Social Justice; About the Editor and Contributors; Index.

From Individual to Community brings together a set of papers that provides critical commentaries on various facets of the ongoing process of development. The book addresses issues that concern developing countries--such as globalization, economic growth, rural transformation, gender equality, educational reforms and the Dalit movement--from a multidisciplinary perspective. Based on the theoretical framework of the normative principles, the book evaluates issues that are specifically relevant in the Indian context--rich versus poor, globalization versus sustainable development, and so on. Devoid o.

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