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Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. India believed it could take development closer to its people, make the government more accountable, and empower women and oppressed communities through decentralisation the provision of political and financial autonomy at the local level through the three-tier Panchayati Raj structure. Fifteen years after the 73rd and 74th Amendments that brought in this innovation, what is the performance of the local government in India? Decentralisation, Governance and Development provides a comprehensive assessment that answers this question. Drawing from the examples of the two states where decentralisation has been most successful Kerala and West Bengal this volume explores the causes and effects of failures in implementation and issues of governance. These essays by scholars from diverse disciplines, as well as policymakers and practitioners, will equip readers with both a theoretical understanding of the issues concerning local government, and the practical problems of designing and implementing policy framework in the field. This book will be useful to students and scholars of development studies, economics, political science and sociology, and public servants and policymakers. (jacket).

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Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. The fourteen papers included in this volume from young researchers encompass some significant aspects of the rural economic transformation of West Bengal. They include issues such as rural health and sanitation, education, SHGs and women empowerment, rural livelihood and migration, etc., with a valuable cross-section of opinions relating to emerging trends mostly of rural India. The book will be helpful to students, researchers, teachers and policymakers at all levels.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. Health system responsiveness of the migrants people living in slum areas: a study of Jaipur City/Shatabdi Bagehi, Ambalika Sinha and Ravindra Tripathi. 2. Who, why and how: an assessment of informal service provision in sundarbans, India/Debjani Barman and Arnab Mandal. 3. Education of the deaf children/Gargee Basu. 4. Slums and associated problems- a case study on a slum of Baranagar municipality/Kaustuva Banerjee. 5. Guarantee of 100 days work under NREGA: a violation of human rights and wrongs step of drainage of public money/Harasankar Adhikari. 6. Government programmes: a critical analysis in a market economy/Amit Banerjee. 7. NGO and CSR partnership in rural development- an analysis of their scope and challenges/Sudeshna Saha and Neelmani Jaysawal. 8. SHGs are the path towards an inclusive, self reliant and sustainable society/Sagarika Saha. 9. Farm women's access to credit institutions: a study among the farm women in Bolpur Sub-division/Suparna Bose and Sarthak Chowdhury. 10. Value addition of indian agriculture during pre and post reform periods: contribution of domestic use and foreign trade/Tushar Das. 11. From 'Filthy' to 'Filted'? british 'Sanitization' Propaganda in Colonial Malabar/Mamatha K. 12. Measuring under nutrition-using the compoitie index of anthropometric failure (CIAF) among preschool children of Birbhum, West Bengal, India/Saikat Majumdar. 13. ICT- Enabled entrepreneurship and private sector development in India/Harinam Singh. 14. Migration and livelihood development in rural perspective of Jharkhand: an evidence based cross sectional analysis/Ashoke Gorain. 15. Implementation and experimentation ideas in development of rural India: an introduction to neo-liberalism and Tagore/Sashi Sekhar Biswal. 16. Self help group: a status of the largest block of Siliguri Sub-division under Darjeeling district/Urbi Ghosh. The sixteen papers included in this volume from young researchers encompass some major aspects of rural economic transformation of Jharkhand, Kerala and West Bengal. They include issues such as rural health and sanitation, education in handicapped , SHGs and women empowerment, rural livelihood and migration etc. with a valuable cross-section of opinions relating to emerging trends mostly of rural India.

Soft cover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. 1. Quality in higher education: role of NAAC/Udayan Mandal and Prof. Dibyendu Bhattacharyya. 2. Innovations in higher education through online technologies/Maran Bandhu Majumder. 3. Role of technology enhanced learning (TEL) for open and distance education in relation to higher level of education/Abhishek Mallick. 4. Redefining values in higher education: a challenging strategy for sustainable development/Sutapa Das. 5. A synoptic study of higher education system in India/Md. Farukuddin Mallik. 6. Development of higher education in pre-Independence India/Arpita Sarkar. 7. Research in higher education: an approach to procure a global standard of living in 21st century/Bapi Mishra. 8. ICTs in teacher education: prospects and challenges/Amal Kr. Sarkar. 9. Quality teacher education in India: a real challenge in the 21st century/Pradip Debnath. 10. Development of hisgher education in post-Independence India/Tripti Dutta. 11. Problems and prospects of Indian higher education/Prakash Chandra Jena. 12. Recognizing the challenges and developing best practices for sustaining quality in higher education/Shivangi Nigam. 13. Role of different accreditation bodies in quality enhancement/Vimal Kishor. 14. Teachers perspective on ICT integration at higher education/P.S. Sreedevi. 15. Higher education and educational autonomy in India/Pushkrit Gupta. 16. FDI in Indian higher education sector: some issues/Krushan Chandra Patra. 17. Role of UGC, NCTE and NAAC in higher education/A. Suneera. 18. Academic freedom and autonomy in higher education/Subhash Sarkar and Joseph Lalruatdika Molsom. 19. Education as a concept of HRD/Meera Dahal. 20. Higher education in India: transformation from an imperial colony to a developing country/Usashi Kundu (De). 21. Development of higher education in pre-Independence India/Dipti Choudhury. 22. Human resource management, planning and development in higher education in India/Diptimayee Behera. 23. Impact of annual and semester system on degree college students: with special reference to Chirang District, Assam/Ram Krishna Chakraborty and Rimush Narzary. 24. Changing context of higher education in India: an analysis/Mouchumi Duarah. 25. Need for human resource management in improving quality of the higher educational sector in India/Saumyajit Acharya. 26. E-Learning in India higher education-how far is its destination in India/Purabi Das. 27. Co-curricular activities enhance learning in higher education/Anju Kumari. 28. MOOC: futuristic technology promotes effective professional teacher education/R.D. Padmavathy. 29. Transformative perspective for holistic development in higher education/Rohini P. Trivedi. 30. Unit cost of higher education borne by the backward-caste student/Dipanwita Das Gupta Ghosh.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. Health insurance for the Poor: the working of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) in select Districts of South Bengal/Paramita Roy. 2. Gendered allocation of household labour: the gender ideology perspective/Aditi Bhowmick and Kuntal Chattopadhyay. 3. Declining child sex ration in India: issues and challenges/Sukumar Pal. 4. Empowerment of women in India: issues and challenges/Sreemanta Sarkar. 5. Inward FDI and its dynamic causal relationships with exports and imports in India during the post-reformed period: a quantitative analysis/Sarmita Guha Ray. 6. Empowerment of rural women in India: a study/Nazmul Hussain Laskar. 7. Lost in counting: India's vulnerable and marginalized children/Ankit Kumar Keshri. 8. Agriculture and women empowerment: the challenges and perspectives/Urmi Pattanayak and Minati Mallick. 9. National rural health mission and rural health status in India: an economic analysis/Kul Bahadur Chettri. 10. Gender disparities in rural work: a time use survey-based evaluation in rural West Bengal/Panchali Sengupta. 11. Land conversion and agricultural distress: a study of West Bengal/Paushali Bhattacharya. 12. Hospital ownership and measurement of efficiency: evidence from the District of Burdwan, West Bengal/Somnath Chatterjee and Arindam Laha. 13. Infrastructure and primary education/Srirupa Sinha. 14. Child labour in India: an overview of issues and challenges/T. Triveni. 15. Health status of rural women: an important determinant of their empowerment/Susmita Chowdhury. . The twenty-six research papers included in this volume from young researchers encompass some major aspects of rural economic transformation. They include issues such as health and sanitation, education of the handicapped, SHGs and women empowerment, rural livelihood and agriculture etc. with a valuable cross-section of opinions relating to emerging trends mostly of rural India topics covered range from with respect to gender and rights in India, to agrarian reform to rural social movements. The book will be helpful to students, researchers, teachers and policy makers at all levels.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Contents: I. On thoughts and processes in archaeology: 1. Antiquity studies, science and Amateurism: a few preliminary words/Arun Kumar Biswas. 2. Methodologies issues in excavating a prehistoric site in India: examples from Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu/Shanti Pappu and Kumar Akhilesh. 3. Archaeological interpretations: a few Randon thoughts/V. Selvakumar. 4. A note on quantification in Indian archaeology: need and caution/K. Krishnan. II. Prehistory, proto-history and early history of India: a review of emergence of human civilization and material culture: 5. The emergence of man in central Narmada Valley/A.R. Sankhyan. 6. Mesolithic culture of the upper Johila Basin, Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh/Basanta Kumar Mohanta. 7. General pattern of Mesolithic culture in Bankura, West Bengal/Banani Bhattcharyya. 8. Pakhanna: a Chalcolithic-cum-early historic site in Bankura/Asok Datta. 9. Recently discovered painted rock shelters of the Vindhya-Kaimur Hills/Vibha Tripathi and Om Prakash Kumar. 10. Change and continuity: the manifestation of rock art in Andhra Pradesh/P. Chenna Reddy. 11. Kanmer: A Harappan settlement in Kachchh, Gujarat/J.S. Kharakwal, Y.S. Rawat and Toshiki Osada. 12. Harappan elements in the Sarayupar Plain with special reference to Imlidih Khurd, District Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh/Ashok Kumar Singh. 13. Special ceramics in the Harappan culture: history of a technology derived from archaeological science/Nupur Dasgupta. 14. Not by archaeology alone: analysis of data from Ai Khanum/Somnath Ghosh and Suchandra Ghosh. 15. Archaeological investigations into the internal dynamism and state formation in Mahakantara/Baba Mishra. 16. Socio-economic life in the Kapili Valley of Assam: a study based on archaeological remains/Paromita Das. III. Archaeological remains, artifact analyses and interpretations: 17. A note on the environmental degradation from the study of Chalcolithic faunal remains from the Rarh area of West Bengal/Manomay Ghosh. 18. Interaction of chemistry and archaeology: potteries-a case study/Somnath Ghosh and Suchira Roychoudhury. 19. The uses of bio-chemistry in archaeology and residue analysis of potteries/Somnath Ghosh. 20. Copper in the early cultures of middle Ganga plain/Prabhakar Upadhyay. 21. Development of wrought iron technology in the Megalithic culture of ancient Vidarbha region, Maharashtra: a review/P.P. Deshpande. 22. High-Tin bronze (Bell metal): a significant metal craft of Eastern India (Early historical and early medieval times)/Pranab K. Chattopadhyay. 23. Copper and iron metallurgy in ancient and medieval Eastern India/Prasanta Kumar Datta. 24. Legendary wootz steel from Telangana in Central Deccan/S. Jaikishan. 25. Puch-marked coins from Ghumal, Mayurbhanj, Northern Odisha/Kishor K. Basa and Basanata K. Mohanta. 26. Compositional analysis: numismatists and their collaborators/Susmita Basu Majumdar. 27. Silver coins of the Khadga dynasty of ancient Bengal/Shariful Islam. IV. Ethnography in archaeology: 28. A note on the Kushan Terracotta human figurines from Deokali with special reference to their manufacturing techniques/Prabhakar Upadhyay and Kamla Ram Bind. 29. Ethnograpny for archaeology: amongst the potters of Bishnupur, District Bankura/Sharmistha Chatterjee and Sayan Bhattacharya. 30. Megalithism: a living tradition in Manipur/Potshangbam Binodini Devi. The present volume embodies a collection of articles grouped into themes which are varied in their scope and orientation. The articles are categorized into four broad sections high-lighting on philosophical and methodological issues, specific contexts of India's prehistory to early history, material practices and technological heritage and ethnological links. A number of well-known scholars have contributed articles to make this a rich and informative volume which will enlighten readers about the present state of research in India. The contributors have explored different and specific contexts and methods of studying the past with the h.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 741 pages. 9.25x6.10x1.56 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 318 pages. 9.25x6.10x0.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.