India’s Perception, Society, and Development Essays Unpleasant / by Arup Maharatna.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Maharatna, Arup (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edition:	1st ed. 2013.
Series:	Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:	Population. Social policy. Demography. Cultural studies. Religion—Philosophy. Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:	Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:	Loaded electronically. Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.

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. .

India’s Perception, Society, and Development Essays Unpleasant / by Arup Maharatna.

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