Dipankar Sinha
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This book offers a narrative-based ‘field view’ of development, with the aim of gathering an intimate understanding of development as lived, negotiated and told. Based on the field work, conducted in rural West Bengal in the mid-1990s and 2000s, the narratives presented here foreground the political, moral and experimental dimensions of ordinary rural people’s everyday encounters with development.
Further it explores the themes of rural ...
This volume collects essays relating to the interface of information, communication, and technology in India--from the early period to the present. The twenty-first century is widely recognised as the era of information and communication revolution, which in turn has been primarily attributed to the spectacular progress in technology. However, such a revolutionary and momentous change has its roots in history, culture and the society in which it takes place. The ...
How should governance be made more accountable and transparent? The book, wide ranging and panoramic in content, seeks to intellectually confront the provocative question and explore, in the process, the highly elusive and controversial theme of democratic governance. It conceptualizes and contextualises the theme in the Indian context in terms of certain specific parameters and clues. The book contains contributions from a wide section of leading commentators, ...