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This is the eighth volume in a major series which studies the status of land reforms throughout the country. It focuses on Gujarat and Maharashtra and contains original essays by scholars, activists and administrators who have in-depth knowledge of the current situation regarding land reforms in the two States. The contributors place the two states in a contemporary framework. They point out that Gujarat and Maharashtra are the two most advanced industrial ...
Marginalisation of tribals and commercial exploitation of their land and forest date back to the British period. After independence, the nexus between development administration, banias and non-tribals on the one hand, and laws governing their commons on the other, further deprived them of not only their livelihood, but also resulted in a loss of their identity. The present volume discusses some of these important issues. The book is divided into six thematic ...
Sardar Sarovar Project is one of India’s most ambitiously designed engineering projects. It is also world’s most controversial developmental project. While its proponents call it a marvel and see in it a strategy that will enable India meet her growing needs for water, electricity and wage goods, its opponents call it a destructive and uneconomical project that has overestimated its benefits and underestimated its cost, especially cost of relocation and ...
This Festschrift, in the honour of Professor R.S. Gautam, brings together essays as diverse as state of economy, social sector, governance and political frontier. Despite variations, the common string that binds the various presentations is the understanding on developments taking place in the economy, polity and society in the country. The book traces the board trends emanating in grassroots governance, direction of economic changes and the political frontier of ...
Trapped in Poverty is an interesting research for more ways than one. It takes the work by Chronic Poverty Research Centre forward. It goes beyond the all-too-familiar statistical exercises based on BPL statistics. It provides a ground level view of the poor with the help of a well-designed field investigation. It builds on existing concepts and research in recognising the heterogeneity and differentiation among the poor and also the presence of non-poor even in ...