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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793181403321

Autore

Mohanty Ranjita

Titolo

Democratizing development : struggles for rights and social justice in India / / Ranjita Mohanty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Los Angeles, CA : , : SAGE Publications, Inc., , 2018

ISBN

93-5328-078-8

93-5280-728-6

93-5280-729-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

338.954

Soggetti

Economic development - Political aspects - India

Democracy - Economic aspects - India

Political participation - India

Social justice - India

Human rights - India

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: democratizing development: issues and actors -- Contesting development, reimagining democracy: grassroots social movements -- National Rural Employment Guarantee Act: access and inclusion in development -- Participatory governance: the paradoxes of development and democracy -- Joint forest management: the making and unmaking of participation -- The Kol resistance: tribal mobilization for land rights -- Collective economies of the poor: the ethics of equity -- Conclusions: development as democracy.

Sommario/riassunto

Since its inception, the Indian model of development has the twin objectives of economic development and social justice woven together. This has shaped both policy and popular aspiration in post-Independence India. In this context, Democratizing Development: Struggles for Rights and Social Justice in India explores and analyses how development gets vitiated by multiple powers and subverts the democratic ideals of participation, equality, inclusion, redistribution and equity, and how the poor and socially marginalized struggle to make development democratic. Examining development through the



lens of the most marginalized, the book shows the democratic potential of development as well as the result of its absence.