Exploring the Social Frontier : An Encomium for Profesor R S Gautam

Contents Preface. I. R.S. Gautam the man and his institute 1. Ram Sakha Gautam a biographical sketch/Yogesh Atal. MPISSR a brief introduction. II. Exploring the social frontiers (A) Social sector 1. Inter state inequality in infant mortality in India 1981 2000/Alok R. Chaurasia. 2. Educational chances of rural communities the Hard realities/Bhaskar Chatterjee. 3. Education for all enhancing capabilities of stakeholders a grassroots view from India/Sandeep Joshi. 4. Evaluation of teachers by students/H.C. Shukul. (B) Governance 5. Environment culture and development evidence from tribal areas of Southwestern Madhya Pradesh/D.C. Sah. 6. Issues of good governance a study of working of Panchayati Raj in Rajasthan/Arun Chaturvedi. 7. Decentralized governance at grassroots level experience of Panchayat Raj System in Madhya Pradesh/Yatindra Singh Sisodia. 8. Decentralization of powers through Panchayat Raj system and the Institution of Sarpanch in Madhya Pradesh an evaluation/Deepika Gupta. 9. Democracy at grassroots Panchayat and the marginalized in Madhya Pradesh/S.N. Chaudhary. (C) Economy and development 10. Economic growth and structural change in Madhya Pradesh Economy (1960 95)/Ganesh Kawadia. 11. Shocks livelihood and debt trap credit and indebtedness in Southwestern tribal Madhya Pradesh/D.C. Sah and Ashish Bhatt. 12. State of informal sector and women a case study of Ujjain District of Madhya Pradesh/Sudha Murty. 13. Embracing human potential through social technology/V.D. Nagar. 14. Self Help approach a paradigm shift in credit delivery mechanism/Neeta Tapan. 15. A brief history of urban settlements in Malwa/Shyam Sunder Nigam. (D). Political frontier 16. On human rights politics and human destructiveness a discussion on the XVI century European conquest of America/David M. Traboulay. 17. Justice as fairness the idea/Naresh Dadhich. 18. Globalization and the security problematic of evolving states in the developing world/A.P. Rana. 19. The development of international organization/P.D. Kaushik. 20. Liberal democracy and its slippages/Harbans Mukhia. 21. Indian administration in 21 century major trends and challenges/L.S. Rathore. 22. Social justice and the Indian constitution/B.R. Purohit and Sandeep Joshi. 23. The eco Gandhi and development models/Pravin Sheth. 24. Secularism as an antidote to communalism national and international prerequisites for its success/P.M. Kamath. 25. Understanding corruption nature meaning cost and combat strategies/Sanjay Lodha. III. Reminiscences from friends and students 1. My friend R.S. Gautam/B.G. Sharma. 2. My friend and master professor Gautam/David M. Traboulay. 3. Professor R.S. Gautam/L.S. Rathore. 4. Gautamjee/C. Narayana Rao. 5. A Malviya of Ujjain/P.L. Joshi. 6. An association of more than fifteen years/Yatindra Singh Sisodia. 7 articles are in Hindi. This Festschrift in the honour of Professor R.S. Gautam brings together essays as diverse as state of economy social sector governance and political frontier. Despite variations the common string that binds the various presentations is the understanding on developments taking place in the economy polity and society in the country. The book traces the broad trends emanating in grassroots governance direction of economic changes and the political frontier of the country especially social justice and marginalised sections of the society. It has three parts. The first part contains a biographical sketch painstakingly reconstructed in a manner of a social anthropologist by one of the editors of the volume. This is followed by a brief introduction of MPISSR that traces the development of institution created by Professor Gautam. The second part is comprised of essays on issues like grassroots governance and emerging leadership in rural India social capital and equity health and education performance of economy and development political frontier social justice and corruption. The last part is an encomium to Professor Gautam from friends coll. …