Independent India's economic development presents the paradox of 'a static economy in progress'. The author spells out a little of the content of the paradox, relates it to the nature of India's poverty and suggests that the link between the stagnation and the progress, the explanation of how...

The author examines socio-economic change in Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu state paying special attention to social classes, industrial development, community development, land reforms, the "green revolution", class struggle etc. She thinks that the imperial bourgeoisie and the Indian...

The notion of development influences and is influenced by all aspects of human life. Social science is but one representational option among many for conveying the myriad ways in which development is conceived, encountered, experienced, justified, courted, and/or resisted by different groups at...