Power, Politics and Rural Development: Essays on India

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Based on fifteen years of intensive anthropological and sociological fieldwork, this book presents provocative insights in the daily life of men and women in various villages of India. The topics dealt with are varied as also important and policy relevant. The author deals with the propensity of the village panchayats and their actual working in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, the impact of land reforms on development, the causes of the high human development index in Kerala, communalism at the village level, the views of poor villagers on the post-modernist views on development, child labour and family views on children as capital, and with the changing world view in relation to religion, caste and the position of women. The author deals with these issues drawing on a multifaceted background, taking care at the same time that the views of the villagers, and their daily concerns come through as the principal empirical evidence.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR G K Lieten

G.K. Lieten holds the Child Labour Chair at the University of Amsterdam and the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. He is the Director of the IREWOC Foundation, and in that capacity he has initiated several research projects on child labour and child agency in various countries across the globe. In addition to various books on development issues in South Asia, he has co-edited: Child Labour and Child Health (1998), Child Labour: Policy Perspectives (2001), and Small Hands in South Asia: Child Labour in Perspective (2004). Dr. Lieten is also a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi.

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Title
Power, Politics and Rural Development: Essays on India
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8173044759
Length
284p., Figures; Tables; 23cm.
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