India’s Perception, Society, and Development

Part I. Quarrelling with Indian Perceptions

1. Quarrelling with Indian Perceptions
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2.
Dear Departed Ones
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3. Dreaming Bengal
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4. Reforming




Babu’s World View
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5. The National Library: A Reader’s Rendition
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6. An Anatomy of ‘Work Culture’
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7. Sketching Tagore as a Social Activist
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8. India’s Family Planning Programme: A Muddle Extraordinary
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9. In Resurrection of Gunnar Myrdal’s Asian Drama

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Part II. Market, Media, and Development

10. On the Invasion of Neoliberalism into Development Thinking
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11. What Education?
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12. What is Meant by ‘Changing Times’ After All?
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13. Commodities, Comforts, and Chaos
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14. Market, Media, and Mediocrity
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15.
Migration, Mediocrity, and Misery
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16. In the Name of ‘Accident’? India’s Road Traffic Deaths and Injuries
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17. The Demography of North-East India: Perilous Pluralism?
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Part III. Society, Culture, and Dilemmas

18. ‘Who is Civilised?’ On the Tribal Traditions, Society, and Culture
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19. India’s Social Stratification: Demography and Dilemmas
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20.
Aping the ‘Awful’? Recent Trends in India’s North–South Sociocultural Divide
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21. Understanding Modern Hindu Mind Resurrecting Ashok Rudra’s Reading
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Keywords: Economics/Management Science, Population Economics, Social Policy, Demography, Cultural Studies, Philosophy of Religion