Overview
- Provides directions to
- understand 21st century Indian developmental challenges beyond stereotypes
- Includes multidisciplinary
- contributions by India scholars from New Zealand, Australia and the
- Provides cutting edge and contextual analyses of contingent socio-economic issues in India
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Dynamics of Asian Development (DAD)
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The editors focus on three major themes, each discussed in a section: The first section, Framing the Macro-Economic Environment, defines the framework for interrogating globalisation and socio-economic changes in India over the last few decades of the 20th century spiraling into India in the 21st century. The next section, Food Security and Natural Resources, highlights critical considerations involved in feeding a burgeoning population. The discussions pose important questions in relation to the resilience of both people and planet confronting increasingly unpredictable climate-induced scenarios. The final section, Development, Activism and Changing Technologies, discusses some of the social challenges of contemporary India through the lens of inequalities and emergent activisms. The section concludes with an elaboration of the potential and promise of changing technologies and new social media to build an informed and active citizenry across existing social divides.
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Keywords
- development in contemporary India
- food security in India
- natural resources
- development and activism
- information technology in india
- Adivasis of Orissa
- development-induced dsiplacement
- sanitation in Indian cities
- urban water resources
- inclusive city
- social inequalities in India
- biodiversity loss and development in India
- urban shanties
- social networking and political activism
- anti-corruption movements
- urban geography and urbanism
Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Food Security
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Activism, Development and Changing Technologies
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Conclusion
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sekhar Bandyopadhyay is Director, New Zealand India Research Institute, School of History, Philosophy, Political Science & International Relation, New Zealand. Sekhar Bandyopadhyay is Director of the New Zealand India Research Institute and Professor of Asian History at Victoria University of Wellington. His academic specialisation is in social and political history of colonial and postcolonial India. He has also written on the Indian diaspora and India-New Zealand relations in historical times. He has published seven books, eight edited or co-edited books, and more than fifty book chapters and journal articles. In 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. In 2014, for his book Decolonization in South Asia: Meanings of Freedom in Post-independence West Bengal, 1947-52, he was awarded the Rabindra Smriti Puraskar by the Bangla Academy, Government of West Bengal.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Globalisation and the Challenges of Development in Contemporary India
Editors: Sita Venkateswar, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
Series Title: Dynamics of Asian Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0454-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0453-7Published: 30 March 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9166-7Published: 25 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0454-4Published: 14 March 2016
Series ISSN: 2198-9923
Series E-ISSN: 2198-9931
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 270
Number of Illustrations: 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, Development Economics, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)