Kanak Kanti Bagchi
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The re-issue of Richard Turner’s Eye of the Needle comes at a critical time in South African history, along side the revival of Black Consciousness and a reconsideration of what Tony Morphet famously called the ‘Durban Moment’. Turner was a central figure in the white South African student movement, and a key figure in the radicalization of its critical project. Inspired by events in Paris ’68, he returned to South Africa after acquiring ...
The book emphasises the need for specific solutions with respect to formulation and execution of policies at local level supported by the state or national government to address regional development problems. It deals with some local and regional dimensions of contemporary concern, approaching the issues with a modern perspective. With special reference to the East and North-east India especially the states of West Bengal and Sikkim, it takes up issues like rural ...
Regional imbalances in a country may be natural due to unequal distribution of natural resources and/or man-made in the sense of neglect of some regions and preference for others for investment and infrastructural facilities. In India, apart from uneven distribution of geographical advantages, historical factors have also contributed to regional inequities. IndiaÕs successive Five Year Plans have stressed the need to develop backward regions of the ...
Land tenures prevailing in a country has been recognized as an important determinant of agricultural development. ‘Land to the tillers’ is a valid slogan for a poor country like India where there is a sharp inequality in income and wealth distribution in rural areas. The present work deals with an evolutionary study of land tenure system in a northern part of West Bengal known as Duars region and its bearing on agricultural development in particular and ...
Trade Unions were formed to conduct strikes against the law wages, long hours of work and abominable conditions. By the end of the 18th century trade unions had began to take root, in the shape of local trade clubs which usually could meet in public houses. These clubs had developed aristocracy among the artisans. Since 1972 trade union activity began to spread among the factory worker. This type of unions among the factory workers put a threat to the rising ...
The book deals with the performance of regional Rural banks in India in general and in West Bengal in particular. This is an important issue of contemporary concern. RRBs play an important role in the socio-economic development of rural areas in improving the welfare of people living in these areas. Therefore, periodic evaluation of the performance of RRBs with respect to fulfillment of its socio-economic and other objectives are necessary. This study makes a ...
In this study an attempt has been made to identify the factors that influence the adoption or non-adoption of new technology in Indian agrarian situation in general and the agricultural situation of Barpeta District of Assam in particular. Identification of such factors would obviously help us to some extent to know how we will be able to use modern agricultural technology for agricultural growth and what measures are to be taken by the govt. as well as by the ...
In this study an attempt has been made to investigate into the determinants of adoption of new technology in agriculture by tribal and non-tribal farmers in Indian agrarian situation in general and the agricultural situation of Barpeta District of Assam in particular. There are a number of conditions, which must be met before a given agricultural technology can be accepted by the farmers. Some of these conditions are the result of physical environment but many ...
This book is an attempt to provide an elementary foundation in research methodology for those who have just began their research in economics and other branches of social sciences, in developing the most appropriate methodology for their research studies. This book can be used both by beginners and specialists. This book is not meant to be an all inclusive and comprehensive work on research methodology. It does not include methods and techniques used in the ...
The present volume deals with the income, consumption and indebtedness of agricultural labourers in Assam, India with special reference to Barpeta District. This is an empirical study based on a field survey of agricultural labourers of 12 villages of Barpeta District in Assam. It depicts the socio-economic condition of agricultural labourers in respect of their income, consumption and indebtedness. The study finds that although the average levels of living of ...
The interest in unorganised sector was created in our mind by witnessing the role and the potentiality of this sector in the development process of the developing countries. This sector has become an important segment of the economy of the developing world. In spite of the rapid industrialization and expansion of the formal sector the urban areas of the developing world have failed to provide employment to all those who have migrated to the cities and the towns ...