Social Development in Independent India: Paths Tread and the Road Ahead

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Social Development in Independent India
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Contents
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
The Editors and the Contributors
Preface
The Theory and Concept of Social Development
	Social Development: Its Place in Development Policy
		Social Development—The Concept and its Growing Reach
		The Role of the Government In Social Development
		Economic Reforms and Social Development
		Social Development at the International Level
		Enabling Environment for Social Development
		Challenges of Social Development
		The Means for Tackling the Problems
of social Development
		Instrumentalities for Promoting
Social Development
	Human Development: Meanings, Mechanisms and
Measurement
		Measurement Issues
		The Past Is not History
		Social and Political Will
		The Rogue State
		Will we Overcome?
		Notes
	The Context of State Initiatives
		The Constitution’s Counsel
		Planning for Social Development
		Development of Social Services
		Federalism and Plan Implementation
		Notes
Challenges of Social Development in India
	Population and Family Planning
		The family planning Programme’s Changing Face—
Charting Shifts in Policy
		Demographic Process and Policy Fallout
		Religion And Fertility Differentials
		Challenges Ahead
		Notes
	The Health Scenario
		Plan Achievements
		Public Expenditure on Health
		Preventive Health Programmes
		Nutrition and Child Survival
		Planning for Health: Reach and Impact
		Notes
	Literacy and Education
		The Right to Education
		Adult Education In India
		Education in the Five-Year Plans
		Education in the Plans: An Overview
		Achievements and Shortfalls—Evidence of
Quantitative Data
		Public Expenditure on Education
		Schools and Schooling—Ground Realities
		Notes
	Poverty in India: Profi les, Policies and Programmes
		Head Counts, Severity Ratios and
Absolute Numbers of Poor
		The Policy Response
		Poverty Reduction: Achievements and Gaps
		Human Poverty
		Poverty and Public Policy
		The Right to Information Act
		National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
		The Road Ahead
		Notes
	Gender in Development
		Perspectives, Policies and Interventions
		Women and Poverty
		Women and Health
		Women and the Educational Sphere
		Women in the Public Sphere
		Women and Collective Action
		Notes
Social Pathologies
	Conflict and Violence
		Caste Violence
		Communal Violence
		Political Factors in Communal Violence
		Economic Factors
		Criminal Violence
		Violence Against Women
		Domestic Violence
		Suicide
		Summing Up
		Notes
	Institutions in Crisis
		Politics and Governance
		Coalitions—Regional and National
		The Electoral and Parliamentary System
		The Judiciary
		The Civil Service
		Notes
Index