Globalisation and the challenges of development in contemporary India. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sita Venkateswar, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, editors.
• Editors: Venkateswar, Sita; Bandyopādhyāẏa, Śekhara
• Contents: Chapter 1. Globalisation and the Challenges of Development: An Introduction- Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Sita Venkateswar -- Section 1: Framing the Macro environment -- Chapter 2. Compressed Capitalism, Globalization, and the Fate of Indian Development -- Chapter 3. India’s Economic Performance in the Post Reforms Period: A Tale of Mixed Messages -- Chapter 4. Post-Industrial Development and the New Leisure Economy -- Section 2: Food Security -- Chapter 5. India’s Evolving Food and Nutrition Scenario: An Overview -- Chapter 6. Millet in Our Own Voices: A Culturally-Centered Articulation of Alternative Development by DDS Women Farmers’ Sanghams -- Chapter 7. Beyond Basmati: Two Approaches to the Challenge of Agricultural Development in the ‘New India' -- Section 3: Activism, Development and Changing Technologies -- Chapter 8. Investment-Induced Displacement and the Ecological Basis of India’s Economy -- Chapter 9. Urban Neoliberalism and the Right to Water and Sanitation for Bangalore’s Poor -- Chapter 10. Bastis as “Forgotten Places” in Howrah, West Bengal -- Chapter 11. ICT4D and Empowerment: Uneven Development in Rural South India -- Chapter 12 Paradigms of Digital Activism: India and its Mobile Internet Users -- Section 4: Conclusion -- Chapter 13. Approaching Contemporary India: the Politics of Scale, Space and Aspiration in the Time of Modi.
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 270 pages)
• Subjects: 306.0954; Social sciences; Globalization -- India; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Economic history; Globalization; Social conditions; Business & Economics -- Development -- General; Social Science -- Human Geography; Development economics & emerging economies; Human geography; Development economics; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Social issues & processes; India -- Social conditions -- 1947-; India -- Economic conditions -- 1947-; India; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811004544; 9811004544; 9811004536; 9789811004537
• Related ISBNs: 9789811004537
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 21, 2016).
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