The fourteen papers included in this volume from young researchers encompass some significant aspects of the rural economic transformation of West Bengal. They include issues such as rural health and sanitation, education, SHGs and women empowerment, rural livelihood and migration, etc., with a valuable cross-section of opinions relating to emerging trends mostly of rural India. The book will be helpful to students, researchers, teachers and policymakers at all levels.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Pranab Kumar Chattopadhyay
Pranab K. Chattopadhyay (b. 1945) is an Archaeometallurgist. He has voluntarily retired as Manager, Training, Alloy Steels Plant, Steel Authority of India Limited, Durgapur. He held the post of Senior Fellow, Centre for Archaeological Studies & Training, Eastern India from August 2001 to December 2010. He worked on the Harikela coins at the British Museum, London, with AZ Chand Award in October 2000. He is the author of Archaeometallurgy in India: Studies on Technoculture in Early Copper and Iron Ages in Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal (2004); Metalcrafts of Eastern India and Bangladesh (2004). He co-authored History of Metals: in Eastern India and Bangladesh in 2010. He has conducted research projects funded by Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi. He is visiting faculty at the Institute of Archaeology, ASI, New Delhi. He has around 115 published papers in national & international journals.
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