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Genre/Form: | Conference papers and proceedings Congresses |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Contested transformations. New Delhi : Tulika Books, 2006 (OCoLC)682316739 |
Material Type: | Conference publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mary E John; Praveen K Jha; Surinder S Jodhka; Jawaharlal Nehru University. School of Social Sciences. |
ISBN: | 8189487078 9788189487072 |
OCLC Number: | 70168179 |
Description: | xxii, 344 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | The meaning of contemporary globalization / Prabhat Patnaik -- From reluctant to robust federalism: the development of India's political institutions / Balveer Arora -- Unleashing the market: global capitalism, deflation and agrarian crisis in developing countries / Utsa Patnaik -- Prospects for rural employment in contemporary India: a note / V.K. Ramachandran and Madhura Swaminathan -- An emergent new reality?: Some reflections from schools / A.R. Vasavi -- Are Indian cities becoming bourgeois at last? / Partha Chatterjee -- 'Social municipalism' and the new Metropolis / Janaki Nair -- The politics of urban space in Mumbai: 'citizens' versus the urban poor / Sharit K. Bhowmik -- Globalization, inequality and the mobility of populations in India / Amitabh Kundo -- Worker mobility and poverty in India: trends in the 1990s / Ravi Srivastava -- Into the Persian Gulf to return: remittance, consumption and development / S. Raju and S.K. Sasikumar -- Mapping the 'middle': issues in the analysis of the 'non-poor' classes in India / Satish Deshpande -- Contours of conflict and coalition: rise of the intermediate classes and castes / Jeemol Unni -- Hindurva and the re-formation of the Indian middle-class subject / Pradip Kumar Datta -- Culture, politics and identity: the case of the tribes in India / Virginius Xaxa -- Caste and labour: aspects related to discrimination and deprivation / Sukhadeo Thorat -- Rhetoric and substance of empowerment: women, development and the state / Uma Chakravarti. |
Responsibility: | edited by Mary E. John, Praveen Kumar Jha, Surinder S. Jodhka. |
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Abstract:
Contributed articles presented at a seminar moderated by School of Social Sciences, J.N.U., New Delhi in April 2003.
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