Showing all 5 books
The entire agriculture production system is based on how efficiently the natural resources are utilized, therefore, soil and water play the most critical role in this process. India has the onus of feeding 17% of worlds human and 11% of the livestock population on 4% of the water resources and 2.3% of the land. It is also a harsh fact that the availability of these two precious resources is reducing each passing day. On one hand, the net ...
This volume analyses the complexity of local governance, both rural and urban, in contemporary India. It argues that there is more to local governance today than a focus on decentralization. The essays illuminate some of the lesser known aspects of the interface between panchayats and other institutions of local governance, whether district administration or parastatal agencies and civil society organizations. The essays stress the continued domination of ...
The Dalit movements in India have occupied significant place in the history of social movements as well as in the discourse of social sciences. These movements have addressed numerous issues that facilitate to understand and analyse Indian polity. The literary expression of political consciousness and movements among or for the Dalits in North India is the new emerging trend. This trend has served enormously to the cause and widened its constituency. The book ...
This book examines the functioning of the dual grain market with reference to rice and wheat and traces the answer of better policy option for raising food output between investment in irrigation and fertiliser subsidy. This is done by carrying out the following three simulations: What is the impact of a 10 per cent hike in fertiliser prices?What is the impact of 1 per cent increase in irrigated acreage? What is the combined impact of the two above? The study ...
This comprehensive volume looks at local governments in rural India as an opportunity to broaden the democratic structure and space for popular participation in local governance. It reviews select state models of decentralization in the country and assesses the form of democratic development possible through the institution of local governments. The work represents an emerging genre of literature on decentralization that is not judgemental on the various ...