India’s Perception, Society, and Development Essays Unpleasant /
There has been, of late, a growing realisation that the pace and pattern of economic development of a country can hardly be understood and explained comprehensively in terms of the straitjacket of economics discipline alone. India is a prime example of the importance of the part played by a country&...
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New Delhi :
Springer India : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2013. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1017-7 |
Table of Contents:
- PART I: Quarrelling with Indian Perceptions
- Chapter 1: Quarrelling with Indian Perceptions
- Chapter 2: Dear, departed ones
- Chapter 3: ‘Dreaming Bengal’
- Chapter 4: Reforming Babu’s Worldview
- Chapter 5: The National Library, Calcutta: A Reader’s Rendition
- Chapter 6: An Anatomy of Work Culture
- Chapter 7: Sketching Tagore as a Social Activist
- Chapter 8: India’s family planning programme: a muddle extraordinary
- Chapter 9: In Resurrection of Gunnar Myrdal’s Asian Drama
- PART II: Market, Media, and Development
- Chapter 10: On the Invasion of Neo-liberalism into Development Thinking
- Chapter 11: What education?
- Chapter 12: What is meant by ‘changing times’ after all?
- Chapter 13: Commodities, Comforts, and Chaos
- Chapter 14: Market, Media, and Mediocrity
- Chapter 15: Migration, Mediocrity and Misery
- Chapter 16: In the name of ‘accident’: India’s road traffic deaths and injuries?
- Chapter 17: The Demography of North-East India: Perilous Pluralism?
- PART III: Society, Culture, and Dilemmas
- Chapter 18: ‘Who is civilised’? On the tribal traditions, society, and culture
- Chapter 19: India’s Social Stratification: Demography and Dilemmas
- Chapter 20: Aping the ‘awful’? Recent Trends in India’s North-South Cultural Divide
- Chapter 21: Understanding Modern Hindu Mind: Resurrecting Ashok Rudra’s Reading. .