The contributors to this book analyze a number of problems facing contemporary Indian society, including: changes in patterns of land ownership; the impact of development efforts on ecosystems; and methodological problems involved in studying economic development and social change. There are also essays on ethnicity which discuss emerging ethnic movements and conflicts in South and Southeast Asia. INDICE: Introduction - B S BaviskarFoxes, Lions and Bears - Pauline Kolenda The Circulation of Land Ownership in Southernmost Tamil NaduDevelopment Disdained and Development Engrained - David G Mandelbaum The Cases of the Toda Tribe and Kerala State in South IndiaEcology and Development in Arunachal Pradesh - G S AuroraMilk and Sugar - B S Baviskar A Comparative Analysis of Cooperative PoliticsRural Change, Social History and Participant Observation - Chitra Sivakumar and S S SivakumarSocial Movements and State Response - T K Oommen The Indian SituationCriteria for Identification of Backward Classes - B K Roy BurmanEthnicity - S C Dube Myth, History, PoliticsEthnicity, Communialism and Class Conflict in India, Malaysia and Sri Lanka - V Selvaratnam Their Implications for NationhoodEmergence and Growth of Tribal Ethnicity in Chotanagpur - Sachchidananda
- ISBN: 978-0-8039-9361-7
- Editorial: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 260
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