Governing rural India.
- New Delhi Uppal Publishing House. 1991
- 373p.
The volume presents an evolving profile of rural governance in India today since the days of the colonial rule. The major part of the book is concerned with a critical examination of the rural development policies, programme structures and processes It also deals with the emerging contradictions in rural India as reflected in productivity versus poverty, regional development versus regional imbalance etc., and the growing phenomenon of rural unrest, including the policy responses to counter and contain the same. Rural politics and central local linkages have been taken into account throughout the analysis in the book with the conviction that the "reality" of rural development and governance in India goes beyond the rural and extends to the national, even inter national arena.