India’s Development: Social and Economic Disparities

India’s Development: Social and Economic Disparities

By- S. Mahendra Dev and K.S. Babu (eds.)

India celebrated sixty years of independence on 15 August 2007. There have been several acheivements and failures in economics and social development during this period.

There remain concerns regarding the agriculture sector, poverty reduction, employment
generation, social sector development, reduction in regional disparities and protection of the environment.

This volume comprising six section tries to address these issues.

The study begins with the theme Revisiting the State: New Forms of Governance. The paper under this theme has tried to bring out what groups are excluded or included in the urban goverance of ‘negotiated spaces’. Next them is on Public-privae Parternships in Basic Service Delivery: Impacts on the Poor. In the light of state’s withdrawal from various public enterprises, the public partnership has occupied an important position and some of these public-private partnerships are discussed under the theme. India’s current impressive economic growth is largely from the service sector and the inequalities in accessing these new employment opportunities are discussed under the theme. Access to Public and Corporate Sector Employment: Rural and Urban Dynamics. Under the next theme Uneven Economic Growth and Environmental Implications, the impact of uneven growth on environment and other natural resources are discussed. Though enough democratic space is created for Women participation, the research papers clearly show that their actual effective participation is negligible. These gender issues are discussed under the theme Gender and Generation as Divisions in India’s Development. In the end the issues of conflicts arising out of displacements since 1950s and particularly the recent SEZs under theme Displacement, Conflict and Crises: The Flipside of Globalisation are discussed.

S. Mahendra Dev is currently Chairman, Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices,
Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India. He has been a consultant and adisor to many international organisations like the UNDP, UNICEF, World Bank, International Food Policy Research Institute and ESCAP. He has been a member of several government Committees including Prime Minister’s Task Force on Employment. He is also a member of the Committee on Financial Inclusion charied by Dr. C. Rangaranjan.

K.S. Babu is a Faculty Member at the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS) in Hyderabad. He was the project director of the study ‘Yanadi Development Plan’ submitted
to Government of Andhra Pradesh. His current research focuses on NGOs and rural
development.

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Crisis of State and Nation: South Asian States Between National Building and Fragmentation

Crisis of State and Nation: South Asian States Between National Building and Fragmentation

By- John P. Neelsen and Dipak Malik (eds)

The widespread notion and pursuit of a post-independence development strategy in South Asia centred around the state, and essentially following the model of the industrialized
countries, has obviously come to end. Similarly, the belief that economic growth together with a socially biased interventionist government would cement national cohesion, contribute to nation-building and, by the same token, strengthen democratic institutions, has been belied. Social inequality has everywhere been aggravated, as  has social conflict. While a general process of political mobilization has set in, not least traditionally rather marginalized groups have become empowered. At the same time, the signs of crises multiply as exemplified in the Maoist movement in Nepal, the civil war in Sri Lanka, the struggle for self-determination in Northeastern India, or the corruption, violence and alienation in government and politics. While they manifest themselves first of all in the political sphere concerning the representativity and functioning of democracy, and not least the roll of political parties, they may go deeper indicating a systemic crisis touching upon the foundations of the socio-political order itself, as most evident in the case of Pakistan. Far from offering solutions, neoliberalism and Western-style democracy appear to be rather part of the problem. As a result, concepts of a modified Nehruvian state or Gandhian visions have gained hew currency.

With crisis of nation and state as principal common focus, the present volume unites thematic regional overviews with case studies on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and Nepal. The thirteen contributions by specialists on South Asia from Europe, and Australia, Japan and the region itself approach the common topic from the specific angle of their discipline, namely political science, sociology, ethnology, history and economics. This pluridisci-plinarity combined with case studies opens up new insights as well as new perspectives for further research.

John P. Neelsen, Professor of Sociology, Tübingen University, Germany. His major publications deal with South Asia, esp. India and Sri Lanka, class formation, and political economy, international relations and Human Rights.

He serves on the scientific board of the World Centre for Peace, Freedom and Human Rights, Verdun, France, of the RosaLuxemburg Foundation, Berlin, Germany, of ATTAC/Germany, and of the International Research Foundation for Development, Mass., USA, which he regularly represents at the UN, Geneva.

Dipak Malik, Professor, Department of Commerce, Banaras Hindu University, and Director, Gandhian Institute of Studies, Varanasi.

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Historical Diversities: Society, Politics and Culture

Historical Diversities: Society, Politics and Culture

(Essays for Professor V.N. Datta)

By- K.L. Tuteja, Sunita Pathania (eds)

This volume is in honour of distinguished historian Professor V.N. Datta. The essays contributed by some of the most eminent historians which cut across boundaries of time and space highlight the diversified and multidimensional nature of historical studies, encompassing some of the most fascinating themes in history from ancient to contemporary times.

The book covers broad themes like land relations; regional identity; gender relations;
composite culture; internal migration; colonial notions of power; environment; science;
nationalist discourse; ethnicity and politics of Dalit identity. In addition, two essays conceptualizing and illuminating modernity in Europe and Asian identity form part of this volume. The collection makes an important contribution to the field of social, political and cultural history.

K.L. Tuteja is  Director, Academic Staff College, and former Professor of History, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra.

Sunita Pathania is former Professor of History, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra.

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High-Tech Urban Spaces: Asian and European Perspectives

High-Tech Urban Spaces: Asian and European Perspectives

By- C. Ramachandraiah, A.C.M. Van Westen and Sheela Prasad (eds)

Published in association with Indo-Dutch Programme on

Alternatives in Development

The rise of ICT-related service industries is not only changing India’s economy, but also reconfiguring its urban landscapes. This volume looks at the emergence of ‘high-tech’ India, together with ‘high-tech’ experiences in select Asian and European countries, from the
perspective of geographers and other scholars interested in how society uses and transforms urban space. In most cities, spectacular new business districts are created; emphasizing difference by means of spatial separation from the rest of the city and a distinct style of architecture.

Specific high-tech spaces first appeared in Western cities in the 1970s. In the last few decades, these high-tech spaces have spread around the world, producing distinct urban landscapes and spatial patterns. These differences reflect local conditions, as well as the demands made by leading companies, and the ambitions of local politicians that determine the ICT policies. The ICT and other high-tech industries offer opportunities for economic growth and development, but can also trigger social exclusion, uproot communities, widen urban disparities and more generally add to urbanization problems of pressure on infrastructure.

This book takes a comparative approach in discussing the engagement of high-tech industries and urban space, and the associated problems and challenges. It presents a range of case studies of Indian cities, and also documents experiences in other Asian countries such as China, Malaysia, Korea and Singapore, and European countries like The Netherlands and France.

C. Ramachandraiah is an Associate Professor in Geography at Centre for Economic and
Social Studies, Hyderabad. His research interests are urban environment, urban water and information technology & cities.

A.C.M. van Westen is a Development Geographer with the Urban & Regional Research Centre (URU) of Utrecht University, the Netherlands. His main area of research is regional development in Asia.

Sheela Prasad is Professor and Head, Centre for Regional Studies, University of Hyderabad. A geographer, her research interests are interdisciplinary and include urban and regional geography, environment and health.

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Emerging New Industrial Spaces and Regional Developments in India: Japanese Studies on South Asia No. 5

Emerging New Industrial Spaces and Regional Developments in India: Japanese Studies on South Asia No.5

By- H. Okahashi (ed.)

India has accomplished rapid economic growth after liberalization of its economy. This volume studies the social and economic development on a regional and local scale, focusing on industrial estates, which have played an important role in attracting investment and in forming prosperous industrial clusters.

An intensive field survey was conducted on two large-scale industrial estates – Pithampur in MP and NOIDA in NCR – to study the regional development based on industrialization.

Two key industries, automobile and software, are analysed on a national level to study the present conditions and development potential of these sectors. The analyses is supported by thematic maps concerning the geography of tehse industries.

The volume provides a comparative analysis of the underdeveloped and metropolitan regions and gives special attention to industrial development, labour market charcteristics, infrastructure development, urban growth, and the transformation of neighbouring villages.

Comparing India with Japan, the volume details the problem and future prospects of the Indian industrialization.

  

Hidenori Okahashi is Professor of Human Geography at Hiroshima University, Japan and Director of Hiroshima University Museum.

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Dravidian Sahibs and Brahmin Maulanas: The Politics of The Muslims of Tamil Nadu, 1930-1967

Dravidian Sahibs and Brahmin Maulanas: The Politics of The Muslims of Tamil Nadu, 1930-1967

By- S.M. Abdul Khader Fakhri


This book examines the changing political identities of Muslims in Tamil Nadu between 1930 and 1967. It assesses the protean character of the influences that played upon the political culture of Tamil Muslims by investigating their location in relation to the important political movements of the time: the Dravidian movement, the Congress and Indian nationalism, pan-Islam and Hindu revivalism. In doing So, the author asks how the contradictions between being Tamil, Muslim and Indian emerged and how Tamil Muslims addressed them in politics.


For Tamil Muslims, being Tamil was as crucial as being Muslim. The author argues that it was the rise of the Dravidian movement and its rhetoric that enabled Muslims to straddle and combine multiple identities—Non-Brahmin, Dravidian/Tamil, Muslim and Indian. This was made possible by the political language of the Dravidian movement which constructed the ‘Dravidian’ community on the basis of caste and language Consequently, Tamil Muslims were accepted as a caste seeking to share power in the competitive and plural political arena projected by the Dravidian movement. In this way, Dravidian rhetoric generated a political space in which diverse identities could be combined and asserted under its own capacious umbrella.


 This study goes beyond 1947, the great divide in the history of and thinking about twentieth-century India. Historians terminate their study at partition and political scientists rearly foray into the colonial period. But this volume comprehensively proves that questions surrounding communal and religious identities cannot simply be studied in a static frame or captured exclusively within the confines of a single discipline.







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Brown Warriors of the Raj: Recruitment and the Mechanics of Command in the Sepoy Army, 1859-1913

Brown Warriors of the Raj: Recruitment and the Mechanics of Command in the Sepoy Army, 1859-1913

By- Kaushik Roy


The Sepoy Army was one of the pivots of Britain’s overseas empire. After 1857, this army policed the subcontinent as well as Britain’s extra-Indian overseas possessions. The importance of the Sepoy Army for the Raj could be gleaned from the fact that it consumed about 30 per cent of the government’s revenue. For the colonized also, the colonial army was one of the largest government employers in India. Nevertheless, it remains an underdog both in Indian and the British-Imperial historiography. This volume focuses on recruitment and the mechanics of command. It attempts to answer pertinent questions like: who were recruited and why, how the recruits were conditioned into soldiers, etc.

Recruitment was the product of two opposing ideologies: the Martial Race ideology and the Anti-Martial Race ideology. The Sepoy Army was the largest volunteer army in the world. The Indians joined the army and remained loyal to it mostly because of a host of tangible and intangible incentives offered to the soldiers and institutionalization of the coercive apparatus by the British command.

The Study begins at 1859 and ends at 1913. This is because after the 1857 Uprising, the Bengal Army experienced a sea change in its organization and social architecture. And again, 1914 constituted a break since the army went through a fivefold expansion.

The author attempts a cross-cultural comparative analysis with other armies in order to flesh out the specificity of the Sepoy Army. This much awaited study is invaluable for scholars of military and modern Indian history.



Kaushik Roy, speacializes in miltary history of South Asia. He has done his Ph.D. from Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Previously a fellow of Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi; Roy is currently a lecturer in history, at Presidency College, Kolkata and associate researcher at the Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW), Inter-national Peace Research Institute, Oslo. He is the author of three books and two dozen articles in academic journals. He is also one of the general editors of Anthem Press.




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