Prem Chowdhry:Political Economy of Production and Reproduction: Caste, Custom and Community in North India
- Livro de bolso 2011, ISBN: 9780198067702
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Serials Publications, 2002. Hardcover. New. Out of 52 Primitive Tribes of the country 7 are located in the undivided Madhya Pradesh. These tribes lives in undulating hilly terrains and … mais…
Serials Publications, 2002. Hardcover. New. Out of 52 Primitive Tribes of the country 7 are located in the undivided Madhya Pradesh. These tribes lives in undulating hilly terrains and dense forests far from modern amenities. Lack of awareness, ignorance, illiteracy and poverty altogether have affected the lives of these tribals. Though, they have been put into one category ‘Primitive Tribes’ yet each of them is at different level of development, are socially and culturally distinct and facing different kinds of problems. One of the problems in these tribes has been stagnant or diminishing population growth. Excepting a few attempts by the anthropologists no study on their socio-demographic characteristics have been done. Moreover the background data on which these tribes have been categorized is not based on empirical data. It is surprising as to how in absence of basic socio-demographic indicators, how the government is monitoring its development Programmes which are being carried out for these tribes. The author has personally visited these tribes and has collected quantitative as well as qualitative data from for Primitive Tribes–Bharias, Birhors, Hill Korwas and Kamars. The data analysed in the book have revealed that the Primitive Tribes have low fertility and high mortality levels–a unique characteristic. Moreover inspite of ban on sterilization operations, about one third of the couples have been found sterilized and in case of about one seventh couples both of the partners have been operated upon. The book presents pitiable state of affairs in these communities and Government’s non-sincere efforts for their development. Printed Pages: 335., Serials Publications, 2002, 6, Oxford University Press, 2005. First edition. Softcover. New. This textbook provides a comprehensive, systematic treatise on development economics, combining classical political economy, modern institutional theory, and current development issues. Grown out of twenty years` experience of teaching in the United States and Japan, its treatment is global, although the organizing principle is the East Asian development experience. Taking a comparative institutional analysis approach, it also outlines quantitative characteristics of Third World development in terms of population growth, natural resource depletion, capital accumulation, and technological change. Development Economics addresses one major question: Why has a small set of countries achieved a high level of affluence while the majority remain poor and stagnant? One obvious factor is a the ability to adopt and develop advanced technology, due in large measure to the difficulty experienced by low-income economies in preparing appropriate institutions for borrowing advanced technology given their social and cultural constraints. This volume explores the nature of these constraints, with the aim of identifying the means to remove them, and examines countries where the constraints have been successfully lifted---most notably Japan and East Asian NIEs. This fully revised and updated third edition also incorporates analyses of several recent changes and newly emerged problems relevant to the global economy: recurrent economic crises in Latin America contrasted with the recovery of East Asia from the 1997-8 financial crisis; a paradigm change in international development assistance from `the Washington Consensus` to the `the Post-Washington Consensus`, with a major shift in its focus from economic growth to poverty reduction as manifested in the United Nations` Millennium Development Goals; and the stalemate in international collaboration on the environment as represented by delays in the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. In exploring these issues, Development Economics provides important lessons on what institutions can promote economic growth, reduce poverty, and conserve the environment through the borrowing of technology. Printed Pages: 448. NA, Oxford University Press, 2005, 6, Oxford University Press, 2005. First edition. Softcover. New. This textbook provides a comprehensive, systematic treatise on development economics, combining classical political economy, modern institutional theory, and current development issues. Grown out of twenty years` experience of teaching in the United States and Japan, its treatment is global, although the organizing principle is the East Asian development experience. Taking a comparative institutional analysis approach, it also outlines quantitative characteristics of Third World development in terms of population growth, natural resource depletion, capital accumulation, and technological change. Development Economics addresses one major question: Why has a small set of countries achieved a high level of affluence while the majority remain poor and stagnant? One obvious factor is a the ability to adopt and develop advanced technology, due in large measure to the difficulty experienced by low-income economies in preparing appropriate institutions for borrowing advanced technology given their social and cultural constraints. This volume explores the nature of these constraints, with the aim of identifying the means to remove them, and examines countries where the constraints have been successfully lifted---most notably Japan and East Asian NIEs. This fully revised and updated third edition also incorporates analyses of several recent changes and newly emerged problems relevant to the global economy: recurrent economic crises in Latin America contrasted with the recovery of East Asia from the 1997-8 financial crisis; a paradigm change in international development assistance from `the Washington Consensus` to the `the Post-Washington Consensus`, with a major shift in its focus from economic growth to poverty reduction as manifested in the United Nations` Millennium Development Goals; and the stalemate in international collaboration on the environment as represented by delays in the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. In exploring these issues, Development Economics provides important lessons on what institutions can promote economic growth, reduce poverty, and conserve the environment through the borrowing of technology. Printed Pages: 448., Oxford University Press, 2005, 6, Oxford University Press, 2005. First edition. Softcover. New. This textbook provides a comprehensive, systematic treatise on development economics, combining classical political economy, modern institutional theory, and current development issues. Grown out of twenty years` experience of teaching in the United States and Japan, its treatment is global, although the organizing principle is the East Asian development experience. Taking a comparative institutional analysis approach, it also outlines quantitative characteristics of Third World development in terms of population growth, natural resource depletion, capital accumulation, and technological change. Development Economics addresses one major question: Why has a small set of countries achieved a high level of affluence while the majority remain poor and stagnant? One obvious factor is a the ability to adopt and develop advanced technology, due in large measure to the difficulty experienced by low-income economies in preparing appropriate institutions for borrowing advanced technology given their social and cultural constraints. This volume explores the nature of these constraints, with the aim of identifying the means to remove them, and examines countries where the constraints have been successfully lifted---most notably Japan and East Asian NIEs. This fully revised and updated third edition also incorporates analyses of several recent changes and newly emerged problems relevant to the global economy: recurrent economic crises in Latin America contrasted with the recovery of East Asia from the 1997-8 financial crisis; a paradigm change in international development assistance from `the Washington Consensus` to the `the Post-Washington Consensus`, with a major shift in its focus from economic growth to poverty reduction as manifested in the United Nations` Millennium Development Goals; and the stalemate in international collaboration on the environment as represented by delays in the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. In exploring these issues, Development Economics provides important lessons on what institutions can promote economic growth, reduce poverty, and conserve the environment through the borrowing of technology. Printed Pages: 448., Oxford University Press, 2005, 6, United Kingdom: Penguin Books Ltd, 2009. -. Paperback. New/-. -. A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against Interpretation and Other Essays is the definitive collection of Susan Sontag's best known and important works published in Penguin Modern Classics. Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and made her name as one of the most incisive thinkers of our time. Sontag was among the first critics to write about the intersection between 'high' and 'low' art forms, and to give them equal value as valid topics, shown here in her epoch-making pieces 'Notes on Camp' and 'Against Interpretation'. Here too are impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Levi-Strauss, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis and contemporary religious thought. Originally published in 1966, this collection has never gone out of print and has been a major influence on generations of readers, and the field of cultural criticism, ever since. Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was born in Manhattan and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. She is the author of four novels - The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover and In America, which won the 2000 US National Book Award for fiction - a collection of stories, several plays, and six books of essays, among them Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. If you enjoyed Against Interpretation and Other Essays, you might like Sontag's On Photography, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'A dazzling intellectual performance' Vogue 'Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites' The Times | 336 pages | 128 x 202 x 22mm | 258.55g., Penguin Books Ltd, 2009, 6, Oxford University Press, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. New. 14 x 21 cm. This collection presents a nuanced understanding of social flux and cultural turmoil in contemporary north India. It critically examines the complex relationship of the colonial past with the present; the shifts in the political economy and culture of north India; and the constant reformulation and refashioning of patriarchal forces. Prem Chowdhry, who has worked for close to three decades in the area, presents an intensive case study of Haryana that spans the mid-nineteenth to the twenty-first century, exploring its politics, economy, and society, with special emphasis on caste and gender. She offers a rich assessment of colonial legacy in the region, and how and why post-colonial changes in India— which established political democracy and norms of social equality—stand severely diluted and compromised indicating high economic and low social indices. Mapping significant social process and state policies that have shaped and reshaped north India, the volume provides an insight into one of the richest regions in India and why it continues to be regressive even in the twenty-first century—ruled by social forces determined by caste, custom, and community, instead of moving towards a modern egalitarian society and statehood. Printed Pages: 464., Oxford University Press, 2011, 6<
