Suresh Misra
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The five-volume series on 'Regional Development: Theory and Practice' is a festschrift dedicated to Professor R. P. Misra, a distinguished scholar, widely recognized as one of the pioneers who initiated and promoted Regional Planning studies in India.
This five-volume series, with over one hundred research papers on different aspects of regional development, is a fitting tribute to the scholar who spent much of his life time thinking, researching and writing ...
The vulnerability of the consumer in the present day is owing to gaps in consumer law created by market place changes that have opened up opportunities for dishonest manufacturers and sellers to victimise people not familiar with the choices and to carry out scams using new technologies. This volume is relevant in this context. The papers by experts deal with key issues pertaining to consumer protection in India. Well-researched case studies identify the lacunae ...
The consists of essays written by eminent academicians in honour of Dr. K V Sundaram. The focus of the essays is on wide range of issues that have been close to Dr. Sundaram. The development debate is an on-going one but by and large the issues have remained the same in spite of more than sixty years of Independence. The essays focus on livelihood issues and employement generation, promoting gender equality, ensuring a clean environment, ...
Rural areas currently are home to 70 percent of India's population. Providing rural India with better access to services, technology, education and health care will reduce inequality and alleviate poverty for hundreds of millions of its citizens. It is critical that rural initiatives be linked to empowerment and capacity-building, to achieve a sustainable and inclusive rural development in the context of the millennium development goals. The present volume is ...
The book presents a detailed critical appraisal of land reform policies and the on going conflict in rural India. It analyses how political institutions, political ideologies, leadership and political values interact on land relations and influence it, indirectly if not directly. The interplay of rural interest groups, bureaucrats, and political parties are well examined. The Author has argued that no progress can be made without significant changes in the social ...
This study attempts to review the role of Panchayati Raj institutions play in democratising the decision making process at the local levels and in mobilising the people for social and economic development. Based on an intensive research on the functioning of the Panchayati Raj institutions in the state of Haryana, the book deals with a range of issues including the legal basis of the Panchayati Raj institutions, the electoral process that has brought new ...
This series, running into five volumes, reflects the general attitude of people towards non-violence as a means to resolve various kinds of conflicts and to bring about peace and harmony in the world. Prepared under the joint auspices of Delhi Society of Non-violence, New Delhi, and International Centre of Gandhian studies and Research, Gandhi Darshan, New Delhi, it addresses a host of issues pertaining to Gandhian world Order, non-violence in action, ...