The articles in this book are written by various authors who deal with numerous aspects of the Government National Adult Education Programme of 1978. The book reads as though a group of people are discussing the means of transporting a doctor, some suggest that the doctor should be brought by road or by air and yet others are talking of the financial implications.
In the classical Marshallian framework, citizenship was visualized in terms of a contradictory relation to capitalism. The three components of citizenship, under the scheme Marshall espoused, referring to civil, political and social, were coterminous with the expansion of the right to free speech, right to participation and economic welfare.
There is a common belief that books published by government departments are not worthy of serious evaluation because of the lackadaisical treatment they generally receive from their publishers. But exceptions are there and this book under review happens to be one.
More so than most other Indian states, Gujarat appears enigmatic to many observers. Its most famous son is Mohandas Gandhi, but he is also a uniquely despised figure in much of middle class Gujarati society at home and abroad.
When Jan Breman’s book was first published in 1974, Rural Sociology and Anthropology was going through an introspection: community development and Panchayat Raj had failed to bring about the peaceful revolution which would end .inequality and’ poverty.
Absolute unity will also mean a self-cancellation of love for it needs an other for it to live (p. 248)
Developing an idea of self-division for self-expansion in the writings of Rabindranath Tagore, Pradip Kumar Datta sums up in this tantalizing and aphoristic formulation, the central problematic of identity.