A strong connection between famine and ethnic politics has been brought out by a number of scholars in the context of North East India. The economic backwardness of the region has been widely discussed in the light of contemporary ethnic political process. Yet, the origin of widespread insurgencies in the North East…
This book is an ambitious attempt to analyse the agricultural growth miracle of Gujarat. The editors point out in the preface that this is really no miracle but .a result of a well thought out strategy, meticulously planned and coordinated scheme of action, political will to take bold decisions and therefore reasonably replicable…
A collection of studies and perspectives, this report is an attempt to identify the generic processes and locate the developmental philosophy that is causing increasing marginalization of various sections of the population in India. The various essays covering the land question, social and gender discrimination, education, health…
The essays in the volume written over a period of about two decades reflect Basus rare gift for identifying interesting problems at the borders of economics, politics, sociology and philosophy, setting them up within parsimonious frameworks and then drawing sharp and incisive observations…
Andre Bteille is a prolific writer who has addressed questions of inequality, power, social class, the family, the disciplines of sociology and social anthro-pology, and a whole range of issues, too vast to enumerate here. The array of problems he has sought to understand and his commitment as a writer stem from his unfailing…
One fact about the book is that it is a revised version of the general secretary’s report to the 22nd national conference of the All-India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) held at Vijayawada in June last year.