CONTENTS:- 1. Introduction. 2. An overview of health statistics in India and West Bengal/Samir Guha Roy. 3. Indian fertility scenario 1901-1991/Kasturi Mitra & Debesh Chakraborty. 4. Internal migration in India/Pranati Datta. 5. Women and development : an inter state profile with a comparative study of Kerala and Uttar Pradesh/R. Gopa Kumar and Sudesh Nangia. 6. Gender disparities in the educational system in India/Surendra Nath Bandyopadhyay. 7. Language planning and linguistic diversity : the Indian perspective/Amitav Choudhury. 8. Understanding semantics of language development/Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay. 9. Socio-economic status and child abuse: clinical observations/Nilanjana Sanyal. 10. Quality of life vis-à-vis consumer behaviour : an empirical study/Sriya Ray and Snehanshu K. Dasgupta. 11. Structural changes in selected agricultural economies of south and South-East Asia : 1960 to 1990/Krishna Mazumdar. 12. Inter state disparity in land holding/Sandip Mitra. 13. Importance of net profitability and net return in response behaviour of primary producers : a case study/Partha De. 14. Emergence of rural leadership : some observations/Bhola Nath Ghosh. 15. Growth of population, agriculture and poverty in India in the post-Independence period/Dhirendra Nath Konar. 16. Rural economic transformation and non-farm employment in India/Pran Krishna Pal, Gunendra Prasad Pal and Dipti Prakas Pal. 17. Regional pattern of industrial development in India/Chiranjib Neogi. 18. Protective discrimination, economic development and economic reforms in India/Raj Kumar Sen. 19. A study in growth of national income and allied aggregates in India (1850-1851 to 1950-1951)/Bina Roy. 20. Problems of public sector resource mobilisation in West Bengal/Biswanath Ray. 21. The underworld money market and the role of futures market/Biman Kanta Chakravarty. 22. India’s role in South Asian Preferential trade agreement/Jagdish Chandra Debnath. 23. Foreign direct investment in India : an exaggerated picture?/Anindya Bhukta. 24. Changing pattern of transport scenario/Debabrata Dutta and Debasish Sarkar. 25. Indicators of socio-economic status of tribal populations in India/T.S. Vasulu and Bhola Nath Ghosh. 26. Tribal economy in India/Manis Kumar Raha, Swapan Kumar Koley and Palash Chandra Coomar. 27. Tribal development and environment/Amal Kumar Das.
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Socio-Economic Development in India reviews the social, economic and demographic features in India. Issue of health statistics, fertility, internal migration, women and development, gender disparities in the educational system, language planning and linguistic diversity have been discussed in this volume. Attention has also been focussed on resource allocation for Indian agriculture.
Inspite of recommendations made by several committees and commissions constituted since independence, for reforms the essential character of our education has remained more or less unchanged even after fifty years of independence.
Impact of tribal planning and tribal transformation has been evaluated in this venture. It will be a valuable reference book for Planners, Economists, Professors, Teachers, Researchers and Students.
