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The book, Five Decades of Economic Development and Social Change in Village India, covers authors works on village India over a span of half a century. His interest in studies of village life, its economic and social structures and power relation, direction and speed of change goes back to 1945 when he wrote his first essay based on his ancestral village Jhavaria in Shahpur District (now in Pakistan), Farming Communities in Irrigated Lands of Punjab for the award ...
The book is a collection of Dr. Nath’s writings on Administration and Planning with special reference to India.
Section I contains lectures delivered by the author at the UN Institute of Training in Economic and Social Planning in the Middle East on Administrative Aspects of Planning Theory and Practice with a section on organization of planning in France, India, Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Section II deals with the subjects which are of importance for ...
The book is a collection of essays written by Dr. Vishwambhar Nath who had retained his interest in Economic Development and Planning in India throughout his life. He was associated with the Planning Commission since its inception in 1950. He worked for the Planning Commission for 14 years from 1950-66 with a break from 1960-63 and in research and writing until 2002 when he died suddenly.The chapters contained in the volume discuss the essential ingredients in ...
This compendium of fifteen essays addresses a wide range of issues pertaining to regional planning and development in India. Making a regional analysis of the levels of economic development and rates of economic growth in the country, it takes stock of the regional disparities in economic and social development as well as the growth of agriculture. Also, the book extends discussion on the regional differences in progress of regional development ...
This book is a collection of essays by Dr. V. Nath, former Chief of urban and regional planning at the Planning Commission. He wrote these essays as India was urbanizing since independence until more recent times when India is experiencing a state of restructured and globalised economy. It includes discussion on myriad aspect of urbanization and metropolitization with special emphasis on trends and reasons for rapid urbanization; concentration of urban population ...