This book presents the overview of the literature that will be available on India in the year 2000. This review has been conducted with a view to discuss growth points and trends in the studies on the year 2000; to review methodologies employed in the investigation of the future; to have a vision of the future of the country; and locate gaps in knowledge and provide subject matter fit for future research. To trace the development and growth point, the content analysis of 675 references has been attempted. The scenario in the year 2000 covers population, economy, transport, housing, energy, water, food, environment, management and public administration, communication, education, health, politics, society and culture. This is the first book which provides comprehensive account on each of these aspects. The chapter on development strategies reflects on the capability aspects in general. Reference is made here to the visions of Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru on the subject. An overview of seven five year plans has also been offered. An attempt has been made to identify in the end the major contours of developmental strategy for the future in which, among other, it has been suggested that “ to improve the administration, decentralization of decision-making power is essentialâ€.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Iqbal Narain
Professor Iqbal Narain (b. 1930) was formerly Professor in the Department of Political Sceince at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. He has written and edited a number of books, some of them in collaboration with others. Among them are: From Dyarchy to Self Government (1950); Pattern of Urban Rural Relationship (1967); State Politics in India(1967); Panchayati Raj Planning and Democracy (1969); Fourth General Elections in India, Vols. I and II (1968-1970); Literature, Social Consciousness and Polity 91985); and Development, Politics and Social Theory (1989). A UGC National Lecturer in 1971-72, he regularly contributes to learned journals in India and abroad. A widely travelled person, he is at present Member-Secretary, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New delhi. Of late, he has been writing on India's educational System in the light of his experience as a Vice-Chancellor of Rajasthan and Banaras Hindu Universities.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Surendra K. Gupta
Surendra K. Gupta is Senior ICSSR Fellow working on a comparative study of Indian Diaspora, Earlier, he taught at the University of Sagar, Miles College, Birmingham (USA), and Punjabi University, Patiala. For a brief period, he was UNESCO Consultant at Bangkok. He is author of Citizen in the Making, India in the Year AD 2000 (with Iqbal Narain), Conflict and Communication: Mass Upsurge in Assam (with Indira B. Gupta), and Indians in Thailand.
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