Macro-Perspectives
L.C. JAIN
DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL JUS¬TICE: MICRO ACTION BY WEAKER SECTIONS by Anil Bhatt Sage Publications, 1989, 208 pp., 175
Sept-Oct 1989, volume 13, No 5

There is a persistent campaign in the corridors of the capital that voluntary social groups working in rural areas are ‘destabilizing’ India.

Anil Bhatt provides proof that indeed they are destabilizing India—but the India they are destabilizing is India of the capitalwallahs. Bhatt reports:
For the very poor any increase in production, though not enough to pull them out of subsistence, has been sufficient to give them enough food, a little better clothing and some additional necessities of life.

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