Challenges and Prospects of Development: A Social and Historical Study on Tribe, Women and Environment in Bengal

Contents: Introduction. I. Development, Displacement and Movement. 1. Female labourers in tea plantations of Terai and Dooars: A study of their protest/Ratna Roy Sanyal. 2. Development hazards for tribals in India/Debasree De. 3. Popular movements in post independent India: A case study of the Rajbanshis of North Bengal/Madhab Chandra Adhikary. II. Development and Environment. 4. Traditional right of forest-dwellers for access over forest: A case study of the marginalisation of forest-dwellers in the eco-tourism at Rashik Bill Forest Village/Surya Narayan Ray. 5. Colonial transport policy and its effects on environment: a study on northern part of colonial Bengal/Utpal Roy. 6. The trials of indigenous response : the conservation process in the colonized Sunderbans/Somnath Mandal. III. Development and Women. 7. Human trafficking : a burning problem along the border migration to West Bengal from neighboring countries/Shasanka Kumar Gayen. 8. Role of MGNREGA to empower the rural women: A case study of Malda district/Chandan Roy. 9. Problem and prospects of development of women in economy of the Darjeeling Hills: a post-colonial discourse/Kishan Harijan. IV. Development and Education. 10. Age wise gender gap in education among tribal people : a case study of rural areas of Jalapiguri District/Samhita Chaudhuri. 11. Growth and development of education in Jalpaiguri District under the Bengali Tea planters in 20th century/Supam Biswas and Kalidas Roy. V. Development and Demography. 12. The agrarian metabolism of Nepali migration, demographic change and the emergence of tribal-Adivasi Dichotomy in North Bengal in the post-colonial period/Udai Kumar Shaw. 13. Partition, refugee and population explosion, a case study of a Bengal District, Malda, 1947-1961/Ritabrata Goswami. 14. Population distribution and immigration of the Santals into Malda District/Rajen Hemrom.…