About the Book
This book is the third of the four-volume Festschrift – Modernization, Globalization and Social Transformation – in honour of one of the stalwarts of sociology in India, Professor Yogendra Singh.
In the first section of this volume, papers focusing on such aspects of polity and civil society as Indian democracy, dynamics of development, citizenship, Naxal movement, nativism, regionalism, nationalism, radical nationalism, freedom movement, civil resistance, Fiji Indian quest for power, socio-cultural transformation of Indians in the US, etc., have been written by most eminent sociologists.
Likewise, in the second section on development, such themes as sustainable development, Gandhi’s development philosophy, social development and new economic policy, equitable development paradigm, communication as a development resource, technological advancements and its impact on youth, civilizational transformation of indigenous people, state, market economy and rural degeneration, dynamics of economic reforms in revamping rural India, sociology of health and health inequalities as well as health care, suicides among cultivators, and biotech crops etc. have been discussed. Several of these themes have been examined in the context of globalization.
Contents
Part I: Polity and Civil Society
1. What Ails Indian Democracy / Victor S. D’Souza
2 Civil Society and the Calling of Self-Development / Ananta Kumar Giri
3 Civil Society, Political Society and Citizenship in India / Pradip Kumar Bose
4 Civil Society in India and the Dynamics of Democratization / Anand Kumar
5 Geographical and Social Dimensions of the Naxal Movement / Ashok Kaul and Anand Prasad Mishra
6 Nativism, Regionalism and the Legitimization of Violence / Jasmine Y. Damle
7 Nationalism in India /
Contents
Part I: Polity and Civil Society
1. What Ails Indian Democracy / Victor S. D’Souza
2. Civil Society and the Calling of Self-Development / Ananta Kumar Giri
3. Civil Society, Political Society and Citizenship in India / Pradip Kumar Bose
4. Civil Society in India and the Dynamics of Democratization / Anand Kumar
5. Geographical and Social Dimensions of the Naxal Movement / Ashok Kaul and Anand Prasad Mishra
6. Nativism, Regionalism and the Legitimization of Violence / Jasmine Y. Damle
7. Nationalism in India / C.N. Venugopal
8. Globalization vs. Polarization / S.P. Gupta
9. Globalization and Rise of Civil Resistance to Indian Plutonomy / Manjeet Chaturvedi
10. City through the Prism of Movements / Shruti Tambe
11. India and the Fiji Indian Quest for Power / I.S. Chauhan
12. Social and Cultural Transformation of Indians in the United States of America / Surendra K. Gupta
Part II: Development;
13. Gandhi on Sustainable Development / K.D.
Gangrade.
14. Globalization and Social Development in the Context of New Economic Policy in India / Bhimasen Hantal
15. M.odernization of Indian Tradition: Introspecting Equitable Development Paradigm / Manish K. Verma
16. Communication as a Development Resource / R. Kannan
17. Globalization, Technological Advancements and Socio-cultural Impact on Youth / Rashmi Jain and Nidhi Bansal
18. Dynamics of Economic Reforms and Revamping Rural India / Ashish Saxena
19 State, Market Economy and Rural Degeneration / Satish K. Sharma
20 Civilizational Transformation of Indigenous People / P.S. Vivek
21. Health Inequalities in India and the Challenges before Social Transformation / Mohammad Akram and Sadaf Rafiq Beg
22. Sociology of Privatization of Health Care in India / Madhu Nagla
23. Socio-Economic Impact of Alang and Sosiya Ship-Breaking Yard / Vidyut Joshi
24. Does Indebtedness Lead to Suicides Among Cultivators? A Comparative Study of Suicide Victims, Normal Indebted Cultivators and Suicide Attempters in Sangrur District of Punjab / A. Satyanarayana and Sanjay
25. Biotech Crops of Bt Cotton and Bt Brinjal in India / R.B. Patil
About the Author / Editor
Ishwar Modi, a pioneer of Leisure Studies in India and a former Director, Centre for Leisure and Tourism Studies, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, is presently the Director, India International Institute of Social Sciences. A former President of the Indian Sociological Society, he is also an Executive Committee Member of the International Sociological Association and President of its Research Committee on Sociology of Leisure. He has authored, co-authored and edited several books and is also on the editorial board of several national and international journals.
