Power, politics, and rural development : essays on India / G.K. Lieten.

Author/Creator:

Lieten, Georges Kristoffel, 1946-

Publication:

New Delhi : Manohar, 2003.

Format/Description:

Book
284 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subjects:

Rural development -- India.
India -- Rural conditions.
Local government -- India.
Rural development projects -- India.

Summary:

With reference to Panchayats in India.

Contents:

Decentralization in India : learning from old and new
Caste, gender and class in panchayats : the case of Barddhaman, West Bengal
Panchayats in western Uttar Pradesh : namesake members
Panchayats and natural disasters : floods in Jalpaiguri, West Bengal
Land reforms at centre stage : the evidence on West Bengal
West Bengal after a quarter century of land reforms
Human development in Kerala : structure and agency in history
Development priorities : post-modernist assumptions and pre-modernist aspirations
Women, caste and religion in a north Indian village
Hindu communalism around Ayodhya between caste and class
Rural development in West Bengal : development of the weak
The rural discourse on child labour and education.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-276) and index.

ISBN:

8173044759

OCLC:

52039060

Online:

Table of contents
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy043/2003313439.html

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