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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790788103321

Titolo

Democracy, development and decentralisation in India : continuing debates / / editors, Chandan Sengupta, Stuart Corbridge ; foreword by Anthony Giddens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Delhi ; ; Abingdon : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-138-84238-9

1-136-19847-4

0-203-08548-5

1-136-19848-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CorbridgeStuart

SenguptaChandan

Disciplina

354

Soggetti

Democracy - India

Decentralization in government - India

India Economic policy Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on presentations at a workshop organized by the Development Studies Institute, LSE and the Centre for Development Studies, TISD in London, June 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction / Chandan Sengupta and Stuart Corbridge -- 2. Equality or inclusion : the dilemma of India's democracy / Meghnad Desai -- 3. Burden of exception? : deficits and deepening of democratic development in India / Chandan Sengupta -- 4. The continuing reinvention of India / John Harriss and Stuart Corbridge -- 5. Development as freedom and justice : an essay on Sen and Rawls / Parthasarathi Mondal -- 6. Framing the development debate : the case of farmers' suicide in India / Ritambhara Hebbar -- 7. Institutional credit and economic entitlement : emerging regional and sectoral divides in Maharashtra / Abdul Shaban -- 8. Fiscal decentralisation and urban local governments in India : an empirical review / Anita Rath -- 9. Decentralisation, women's rights and development : lessons from India and South Africa / Jo Beall -- 10. Social divisions and rural non-farm sector : lessons from India / Gaurang R. Sahay -- 11.



Development and change in agrarian economy : aspects of rural non-farm sector in Andhra Pradesh, India / Perumula Gopinath -- 12. Privatising social opportunity : trends and implications for higher education in India / Anindita Chakrabarti -- 13. Healthcare services and development in India : a study of reproductive health in Jharkhand / P.M. Sandhya Rani -- 14. Public intervention, institutions and human development in India : theory and evidence / Sandhya S. Iyer.

Sommario/riassunto

Contributed articles.