The work discusses the development programmes in rural areas initiated by the government, stressing on livelihood and health. The articles by scholars incorporating the extensive work done by researchers in the sphere of rural development especially in eastern India deal with livelihood patterns and health in rural development. They study the livelihood development of tribals, the importance of local knowledge for sustainable farming, development of rural women and empowering them through the self-help group model, and the link between demography, migration, social networking, child labour and rural development. Empirical studies delve into tribals’ access to health services in Odisha and their nutritional assessment in West Bengal, hygiene and common diseases in the health care systems of Manipur and the link between medicine and environment with special reference to the Mundas.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR P. Dash Sharma
P. Dash Sharma, Ph.D., (Delhi), is retired Professor of Anthropology of the University of Ranchi. He served at the Office of the Registrar General of India, New Delhi, from 1965-70, and then as research associate in the anthropological Survey of India, at the Southern Regional Centre at Mysore. He joined the department of anthropology at the University of Ranchi in the middle of 1972. His active service at the university of Ranchi spans a period of more than twenty-seven years. He has published more than 150 research articles in various national and international journals, and in edited volumes, on various aspects ranging from physical anthropology, ethnographic studies, human genetics, health and nutrition, environmental and developmental studies, among the tribes of north-east India and Chotanagpur. He has authored one text book on human evolution, and has three books to his credit as an editor. He is the founder editor of the journals South Asian Anthropologist, which is being published as the official organ of Sarat Chandra RoyInstitute of Anthropological Studies, Ranchi, since 1980.
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