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From Individual to Community
Issues in Development Studies
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Development Studies (General) | Economics & Development Studies (General) | South Asia Studies
Development Studies (General) | Economics & Development Studies (General) | South Asia Studies
May 2012 | 280 pages | SAGE India
From Individual to Community brings together a set of papers that provides critical commentaries on various facets of the ongoing process of development. The book addresses issues that concern developing countries—such as globalization, economic growth, rural transformation, gender equality, educational reforms and the Dalit movement—from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Based on the theoretical framework of the normative principles, the book evaluates issues that are specifically relevant in the Indian context—rich versus poor, globalization versus sustainable development, and so on. Devoid of any ideological rigidity, this book is an unbiased exposition of the material as well as ideological positioning of globalization, development and change.
This book also commemorates the birth centenary of Professor Malcolm Adiseshiah, former Deputy Director General of UNESCO and a Padma Bhushan awardee, who was also founder of Madras Institute of Development Studies.
Based on the theoretical framework of the normative principles, the book evaluates issues that are specifically relevant in the Indian context—rich versus poor, globalization versus sustainable development, and so on. Devoid of any ideological rigidity, this book is an unbiased exposition of the material as well as ideological positioning of globalization, development and change.
This book also commemorates the birth centenary of Professor Malcolm Adiseshiah, former Deputy Director General of UNESCO and a Padma Bhushan awardee, who was also founder of Madras Institute of Development Studies.
Preface
R Maria Saleth and L Venkatachalam
U R Ananthamurthy
Amit Bhaduri
Dipankar Gupta
Bina Agarwal
Amita Baviskar
Jandhyala B G Tilak
Upendra Baxi
Mihir Shah
Partha Chatterjee
Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Index
The book fully lives up to expectations as a tribute to the founder of Madras Institute of Development Studies. It contains essays by top-notch academics.... It captures well the present development dilemma in India.
An outstanding selection...the essays in this volume take the reader to the cutting edge of Indian social science, to the questions that seemingly defy answers and yet are essential to address...this volume presents a rich collection of arguments that deserve to change the way we think about India.