Interrogating Development: Perspectives on the Economy, Environment, Ethnicity and Gender

Contents: 1. Interrogating development: perspectives on the economy, environment, ethnicity and gender. 2. The political economy of industrialisation in West Bengal 1948-200: dynamics of the state, labour and the market/Abhinandan Das. 3. A comparative study of land settlements in British India and the princely state of Cooch Behar (1773-1947)/Prajnaparamita Sarkar. 4. A disaggregated study on trends in growth of agricultural production and productivity in West Bengal in pre and post-economic reform period: investigating the impact on the economy and employment/Anjan Chakrabarti. 5. Convergence and divergence: perspectives on growth imbalance across the districts of West Bengal/Debajit Jha and Sunetra Ghatak. 6. Food security for the poorest: a case study of the role of gram Panchayats and self help groups/Dilip Kanti Chaudhuri and Debraj Bhattacharya. 7. 'Decent work' deficit in India in the post-liberalisation era: a study across major states/Anamika Moktan. 8. Tracing the dynamics of 'people's participation' in governance in Mizoram/Anup Shekhar Chakraborty. 9. History, culture, environment and development: Kerala and Darjeeling a study in contrast/George Thadathil. 10. Ordering an anomalous land: material transformations of the landscape in colonial Darjeeling/Tahiti Sarkar and Dilip Sarkar. 11. Challenging the idea of development through development discourses: reflections on the Gorkhaland movement/Swatahsiddha Sarkar. 12. Ethnicity and marginality: changing patterns of identity politics among central Indian tribes of Terai and Dooars regions of west Bengal/Sourajit Roy. 13. A study of the evolution of development discourse and the status of women in India/Panchali Sengupta. 14. Property rights and economic security of women: some emerging issues/Sanchari Roy Mukherjee. 15. Nationalism and its failures: reviewing Rabindranath/Partha Gangopadhyay.…