Author : Girish Kumar
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 37,19 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Local elections
ISBN : 9788170225393
Based on a field survey of the panchayats in four districts in West Bengal; Burdwān, Nadia, Dakshiṇa Cabbiśa Paragaṇā, and Māldah districts during and after the May 1993 Panchayat elections.
Author : Jasodhara Bagchi
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 2005-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761932420
This important and comprehensive volume vividly depicts the current status of women and girls in West Bengal. The analysis has been conducted in the framework of the socio-economic and politico-cultural ambience that has characterized the state in recent decades. The contributors highlight both areas of strength and vulnerability and clearly demonstrate that the status of women cannot be conceived as monolithic or static--it has many facets and is in a state of constant flux. The analysis of macro data is supported by revealing micro studies based on field surveys and an examination of cultural trends.
Author : Sujit Kumar Dutta
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 20,88 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Institution development
ISBN : 9788183241274
In Indian context.
Author : George Mathew
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 31,56 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Panchayat
ISBN : 9788170225171
Author : B S Baviskar
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 11,41 MB
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8178298600
This book brings together rich field studies from 42 panchayats in 12 states, to show how decentralization is working in Indian villages. It analyzes the social, political, and economic forces influencing variations in the degree of empowerment of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and women and looks at likely future developments. The research methodology used brings insights from a micro approach instead of macro-level generalities.
Author : Liyiyu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,60 MB
Release : 2021-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9811646988
This book deals with the dynamics of local-level politics in China and India. China introduced new policies to restructure local politics in 1978. In place of communes, civil society organizations and cooperatives were introduced in villages. More changes came about with the introduction of the Organic Law of the Villagers' Committees of the People's Republic of China in 1998. The new local power structure includes state-sponsored institutions like Villagers Committees and the traditional civil society organizations (CSOs) and non-government organizations (NGOs). As in China, local politics in India undergoes considerable changes during the last few decades. Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) were reformed in 1992 with a constitutional amendment act. CSOs and NGOs were allowed to function. Against this background, the present book is undertaken with the objectives first, to present two different models of local politics and second, to compare the two, finally to focus on the two different models of development. This book will interest scholars of rural governance, rural transformation, and the role of the grassroots CSOs and NGOs in shaping development program and growth in the two large countries in Asia.
Author : C. Steven LaRue
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 20,44 MB
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134269943
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Bakshi Dayanath Sinha
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 21,40 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Environmental health
ISBN : 9788170225997
Author : Robert Thörlind
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 25,62 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788787062756
This book explores the controversy in political science surrounding the civil society/social capital paradigm, by studying the performance of decentralized governments in West Bengal and Bangladesh. Gram panchayats and NGOs provide the focus of the study. The study intends to determine whether a growth in social capital can explain why decentralized governments seem to be more effective in West Bengal, though both areas decentralized their governments around the same time. The two regions have shared for centuries a common history, civic culture, ethnic identity and language, though religion led to the separation of the regions.
Author : Dan Banik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,53 MB
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134134150
This book analyzes India’s impressive efforts in responding to sensational and easily visible disasters in contrast to the ‘silent emergency’ of drought-induced under nutrition and starvation deaths. Building on Amartya Sen’s famous claim that no famine has ever occurred in a democratic country, it re-examines the relationship between democracy, public action and famine prevention. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative data in India at national, state and local levels as well as in-depth field visits to two states on India’s east coast, Orissa and West Bengal, the author analyzes the following issues: the interaction between specific institutions in India and their accountability to the public the role of the media in highlighting problems of extreme poverty and destitution and the effectiveness of political and administrative responses to such reports the extent to which tribal groups are vulnerable to starvation and famine, and an analysis of whether starvation deaths in drought-prone Kalahandi district in Orissa are unique in India the impact of two major nutrition programmes, the Public Distribution System (PDS) and the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), in reducing the incidence, duration and impact of starvation deaths. Starvation and India’s Democracy will be of interest to researchers in economics, political science, philosophy, development studies and South Asian studies.
