Chattopadhyay Pranab Kumar, First Edition (8 results)

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. With the idea of development as capability expansion gaining ground, the condition of women, child health, expansion of education, agriculture and rural health care became the most pressing contemporary issues. This volume presents ten studies to illustrate different aspects of the problems covering micro level village studies of West Bengal in India. The articles by the young researchers clearly illustrate the heterogeneous and complex nature of achievements of different aspects of transformation and well-being of the rural community in India. The book will be helpful to students, researchers, teachers and policy makers at all levels.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. The fourteen papers included in this volume from young researchers encompass some significant aspects of the rural economic transformation of West Bengal. They include issues such as rural health and sanitation, education, SHGs and women empowerment, rural livelihood and migration, etc., with a valuable cross-section of opinions relating to emerging trends mostly of rural India. The book will be helpful to students, researchers, teachers and policymakers at all levels.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. Health system responsiveness of the migrants people living in slum areas: a study of Jaipur City/Shatabdi Bagehi, Ambalika Sinha and Ravindra Tripathi. 2. Who, why and how: an assessment of informal service provision in sundarbans, India/Debjani Barman and Arnab Mandal. 3. Education of the deaf children/Gargee Basu. 4. Slums and associated problems- a case study on a slum of Baranagar municipality/Kaustuva Banerjee. 5. Guarantee of 100 days work under NREGA: a violation of human rights and wrongs step of drainage of public money/Harasankar Adhikari. 6. Government programmes: a critical analysis in a market economy/Amit Banerjee. 7. NGO and CSR partnership in rural development- an analysis of their scope and challenges/Sudeshna Saha and Neelmani Jaysawal. 8. SHGs are the path towards an inclusive, self reliant and sustainable society/Sagarika Saha. 9. Farm women's access to credit institutions: a study among the farm women in Bolpur Sub-division/Suparna Bose and Sarthak Chowdhury. 10. Value addition of indian agriculture during pre and post reform periods: contribution of domestic use and foreign trade/Tushar Das. 11. From 'Filthy' to 'Filted'? british 'Sanitization' Propaganda in Colonial Malabar/Mamatha K. 12. Measuring under nutrition-using the compoitie index of anthropometric failure (CIAF) among preschool children of Birbhum, West Bengal, India/Saikat Majumdar. 13. ICT- Enabled entrepreneurship and private sector development in India/Harinam Singh. 14. Migration and livelihood development in rural perspective of Jharkhand: an evidence based cross sectional analysis/Ashoke Gorain. 15. Implementation and experimentation ideas in development of rural India: an introduction to neo-liberalism and Tagore/Sashi Sekhar Biswal. 16. Self help group: a status of the largest block of Siliguri Sub-division under Darjeeling district/Urbi Ghosh. The sixteen papers included in this volume from young researchers encompass some major aspects of rural economic transformation of Jharkhand, Kerala and West Bengal. They include issues such as rural health and sanitation, education in handicapped , SHGs and women empowerment, rural livelihood and migration etc. with a valuable cross-section of opinions relating to emerging trends mostly of rural India.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Introduction. 1. Achilles heel or chained elephant: technology growth and efficiency in Indian agriculture since the inception of green revolution/Atanu Sengupta and Chandan Kumar Maity. 2. Social work practice with street children-an insight/Debotosh Sinha and Swati Chakraborty. 3. Education and women in a backward region of West Bengal/Kaberi Pal. 4. Topic of study: deaths not meant to be: an evaluation of infant and maternal death audit system in Haryana/Nabhojit Dey. 5. Prevention and rehabilitation of disability in children through RCH/Gargee Basu. 6. Integrated water resources management Iwrm): a rural livelihood perspective/Pulak Kumar Patra. 7. The spell of information technology on the minds of developing children/Sisir Gurung. 8. Social exclusion: health concerns over tribal women and children in Attappady, Kerala/Ajay Pathalil and Thresy Vallikappen. 9. Disease and disaster in Lepcha traditional knowledte: a case study/Aritra Samajdar. 10. Agricultural status and trend: a village level study/Krishna Gopal Ghosh and Priyanka Das. 11. Women and child development: a crying need of the hour/Amit Banerjee. 12. Dissemination of farm technologies for poor farmers: a paradigm shift/Sarthak Chowdhury and Prabuddha Ray. 13. Girl Child: early marriage issue and media/Aditi Bhowmick. 14. Women and computer science: gender disparity a case study/Praveeen Mukhia Titimus. 15. Land reforms in North Bengal: a case study of Siliguri sib divisiuon/Udai Kumar Shaw. 16. Rural development programme of Govt. of India and their effectiveness: an assessment/Neelmani Jaysawal. 17. Rural tourism development programme of ministry of tourism, Govt of India and their effectiveness an assessment: a case study on pochampally rural tourism/G. Mahender Reddy and YSR Nithm. 18. A critical evaluation of IEC strategy of MGNREGA developed by Ministry of rural development of Govt. of India/Arita Samajdar. 19. Status of women: power empower welfare and development in India/Sashi Sekhar Biswal. 20. From women empowerment to entrepreneurship development through SHGs finding observation and analysis by focus group discussions/Bikas Majhi. 21. Community development society the platform for empowerment of urban poor women: a study in selected Muncipal areas of West Bengal/Kuntak Ghosh. 22. Deplorable health conditions in rural India: a thematic review/Sudeshna Saha. Despite economic growth in almost every corner of the world over the last few years, still millions of people live in poverty. The book enriched with field level studies and case studies. The research papers highlighting strength of our programmes and focuses on the areas of intervention. The book contains thirty three selected research articles on different topics associated with present problems. The book covers various areas particularly related with the health, rural development. Agriculture women empowerment etc. Lastly the editor concludes that there is much more scope for the growth, empowerment and development. Above all the language of this book is very simple. It will be very useful for persons in the government agencies planners administrators educational institutes, administrators, educational institutes researchers and development professionals and all those who are directly and indirectly associated with the development. (jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. With the idea of development as capability expansion gaining ground, the condition of women, child health, expansion of education, agriculture and rural health care became the most pressing contemporary issues. This volume presents fourteen studies to illustrate different aspects of the problems covering micro level village studies of West Bengal in India. The articles by the young researchers clearly illustrate the heterogeneous and complex nature of achievements of different aspects of transformation and well-being of the rural community in India. The book will be helpful to students, researchers, teachers and policy makers at all levels.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. Health insurance for the Poor: the working of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) in select Districts of South Bengal/Paramita Roy. 2. Gendered allocation of household labour: the gender ideology perspective/Aditi Bhowmick and Kuntal Chattopadhyay. 3. Declining child sex ration in India: issues and challenges/Sukumar Pal. 4. Empowerment of women in India: issues and challenges/Sreemanta Sarkar. 5. Inward FDI and its dynamic causal relationships with exports and imports in India during the post-reformed period: a quantitative analysis/Sarmita Guha Ray. 6. Empowerment of rural women in India: a study/Nazmul Hussain Laskar. 7. Lost in counting: India's vulnerable and marginalized children/Ankit Kumar Keshri. 8. Agriculture and women empowerment: the challenges and perspectives/Urmi Pattanayak and Minati Mallick. 9. National rural health mission and rural health status in India: an economic analysis/Kul Bahadur Chettri. 10. Gender disparities in rural work: a time use survey-based evaluation in rural West Bengal/Panchali Sengupta. 11. Land conversion and agricultural distress: a study of West Bengal/Paushali Bhattacharya. 12. Hospital ownership and measurement of efficiency: evidence from the District of Burdwan, West Bengal/Somnath Chatterjee and Arindam Laha. 13. Infrastructure and primary education/Srirupa Sinha. 14. Child labour in India: an overview of issues and challenges/T. Triveni. 15. Health status of rural women: an important determinant of their empowerment/Susmita Chowdhury. . The twenty-six research papers included in this volume from young researchers encompass some major aspects of rural economic transformation. They include issues such as health and sanitation, education of the handicapped, SHGs and women empowerment, rural livelihood and agriculture etc. with a valuable cross-section of opinions relating to emerging trends mostly of rural India topics covered range from with respect to gender and rights in India, to agrarian reform to rural social movements. The book will be helpful to students, researchers, teachers and policy makers at all levels.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Introduction. 1. Health sector reform in West Bengal: a GP level analysis/Arijita Dutta and Ratan Khasnabis. 2. Declining child population child death should be prevented/Subhabrata Dutta. 3. Economic crisis and rural women and children in North-East India/Falendra Kumar Sudan. 4. Addressing four A-s of accessibility in child health care-a case study of Indian Sundarbans/Debjani Barman, Nilanjan Patra and Patistha Sengupta. 5. Depeasantization or rural proletarization/Rajiv Dey. 6. Child malnutrition in West Bengal: inequality in background and access to ICDS/Smritikana Ghosh and Arijita Dutta. 7. Educational backwardness among the Muslims and the capability thesis: a case study of West Bengal/Arijit Das. 8. Impact of SHGs on probability of crossing poverty line: a study of scheduled castes households in Bankura District/Supravat Bagi and Maniklal Adhikary. 9. SHGs in promotion of rural women through jute diversification in cachar district Assam: problems and prospects/Subhabrata Dutta and Devashree Pathak. 10. Is agriculture promoting rural growth and reducing rural poverty in India/Tushar Das. Challenges of livelihood and inclusive rural development in the era of globalization deals with different challenges in rural development and recommended practical ideas for development. This book is an extremely timely publication when the prevailing situations are putting more and more emphasis on the sharing of knowledge and ideas in the development sector. The research papers highlighting strength of our programmes and focuses on the areas of intervention. Researchers and general readers will find this volume very informative and useful in the area of policy making.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: I. On thoughts and processes in archaeology: 1. Antiquity studies, science and Amateurism: a few preliminary words/Arun Kumar Biswas. 2. Methodologies issues in excavating a prehistoric site in India: examples from Attirampakkam, Tamil Nadu/Shanti Pappu and Kumar Akhilesh. 3. Archaeological interpretations: a few Randon thoughts/V. Selvakumar. 4. A note on quantification in Indian archaeology: need and caution/K. Krishnan. II. Prehistory, proto-history and early history of India: a review of emergence of human civilization and material culture: 5. The emergence of man in central Narmada Valley/A.R. Sankhyan. 6. Mesolithic culture of the upper Johila Basin, Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh/Basanta Kumar Mohanta. 7. General pattern of Mesolithic culture in Bankura, West Bengal/Banani Bhattcharyya. 8. Pakhanna: a Chalcolithic-cum-early historic site in Bankura/Asok Datta. 9. Recently discovered painted rock shelters of the Vindhya-Kaimur Hills/Vibha Tripathi and Om Prakash Kumar. 10. Change and continuity: the manifestation of rock art in Andhra Pradesh/P. Chenna Reddy. 11. Kanmer: A Harappan settlement in Kachchh, Gujarat/J.S. Kharakwal, Y.S. Rawat and Toshiki Osada. 12. Harappan elements in the Sarayupar Plain with special reference to Imlidih Khurd, District Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh/Ashok Kumar Singh. 13. Special ceramics in the Harappan culture: history of a technology derived from archaeological science/Nupur Dasgupta. 14. Not by archaeology alone: analysis of data from Ai Khanum/Somnath Ghosh and Suchandra Ghosh. 15. Archaeological investigations into the internal dynamism and state formation in Mahakantara/Baba Mishra. 16. Socio-economic life in the Kapili Valley of Assam: a study based on archaeological remains/Paromita Das. III. Archaeological remains, artifact analyses and interpretations: 17. A note on the environmental degradation from the study of Chalcolithic faunal remains from the Rarh area of West Bengal/Manomay Ghosh. 18. Interaction of chemistry and archaeology: potteries-a case study/Somnath Ghosh and Suchira Roychoudhury. 19. The uses of bio-chemistry in archaeology and residue analysis of potteries/Somnath Ghosh. 20. Copper in the early cultures of middle Ganga plain/Prabhakar Upadhyay. 21. Development of wrought iron technology in the Megalithic culture of ancient Vidarbha region, Maharashtra: a review/P.P. Deshpande. 22. High-Tin bronze (Bell metal): a significant metal craft of Eastern India (Early historical and early medieval times)/Pranab K. Chattopadhyay. 23. Copper and iron metallurgy in ancient and medieval Eastern India/Prasanta Kumar Datta. 24. Legendary wootz steel from Telangana in Central Deccan/S. Jaikishan. 25. Puch-marked coins from Ghumal, Mayurbhanj, Northern Odisha/Kishor K. Basa and Basanata K. Mohanta. 26. Compositional analysis: numismatists and their collaborators/Susmita Basu Majumdar. 27. Silver coins of the Khadga dynasty of ancient Bengal/Shariful Islam. IV. Ethnography in archaeology: 28. A note on the Kushan Terracotta human figurines from Deokali with special reference to their manufacturing techniques/Prabhakar Upadhyay and Kamla Ram Bind. 29. Ethnograpny for archaeology: amongst the potters of Bishnupur, District Bankura/Sharmistha Chatterjee and Sayan Bhattacharya. 30. Megalithism: a living tradition in Manipur/Potshangbam Binodini Devi. The present volume embodies a collection of articles grouped into themes which are varied in their scope and orientation. The articles are categorized into four broad sections high-lighting on philosophical and methodological issues, specific contexts of India's prehistory to early history, material practices and technological heritage and ethnological links. A number of well-known scholars have contributed articles to make this a rich and informative volume which will enlighten readers about the present state of research in India. The contributors have explored different and specific contexts and methods of studying the past with the h.