Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction: Super-optimizing Analysis and Indiaâ s Industrial Policy -- Background and Trends -- Alternatives, Goals and Relations -- A Super-optimum Solution -- Finding Other Super-optimum Solutions -- Part I Economic Policy -- 1 Indiaâ s Textile Policy and the Informal Sectors -- Introduction -- The Textile Industry -- Textile Policy -- Impact of Policy -- Policy Making in the Textile Sector -- Part II Social Policy -- 2 Womenâ s Rights in India: a Socioreligious Perspective -- Rights of Women Through the Ages -- The Era of Social Reform and Indian Women -- Social Legislations and Women -- Political Consciousness and Indian Women -- Human Rights vis-Ã -vis Women of India -- The UN Conferences on Women and the Steps Taken in India -- Steps Taken by India -- 3 Political Education and Political Socialization in a Pluralistic Society: a Case Study of Two Generations of Women in India -- Political Socialization -- Political Socialization and Political Education -- Changes in the Political Socialization and Political Education of Indian Women -- The Views of Indian Women on their Place in Society -- Family, Education and Political Socialization -- The Relationship Between Political Socialization and Political Participation -- Political Education, Political Socialization and Role Perceptions -- Concluding Observations -- Part III Environmental and Health Policy -- 4 Gender Dimensions of the Environment and Development Debate: the Indian Experience -- Destroyers of the Environment or Victims of Development: the Case of Women at Survival Levels -- Forest Policies and Grass-roots Womenâ s Movements -- Mega-dams, Rehabilitation and Women -- Population Explosion and the Environment
