India's Development and Public Policy.

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction: Super-optimizing Analysis and India's Industrial Policy -- Background and Trends -- Alternatives, Goals and Relations -- A Super-optimum Solution -- Finding Other Super-optimum Solutions -- Part I Economic Policy -- 1 India's Textile Policy and the Informal Sectors -- Introduction -- The Textile Industry -- Textile Policy -- Impact of Policy -- Policy Making in the Textile Sector -- Part II Social Policy -- 2 Women's Rights in India: a Socioreligious Perspective -- Rights of Women Through the Ages -- The Era of Social Reform and Indian Women -- Social Legislations and Women -- Political Consciousness and Indian Women -- Human Rights vis-à-vis Women of India -- The UN Conferences on Women and the Steps Taken in India -- Steps Taken by India -- 3 Political Education and Political Socialization in a Pluralistic Society: a Case Study of Two Generations of Women in India -- Political Socialization -- Political Socialization and Political Education -- Changes in the Political Socialization and Political Education of Indian Women -- The Views of Indian Women on their Place in Society -- Family, Education and Political Socialization -- The Relationship Between Political Socialization and Political Participation -- Political Education, Political Socialization and Role Perceptions -- Concluding Observations -- Part III Environmental and Health Policy -- 4 Gender Dimensions of the Environment and Development Debate: the Indian Experience -- Destroyers of the Environment or Victims of Development: the Case of Women at Survival Levels -- Forest Policies and Grass-roots Women's Movements -- Mega-dams, Rehabilitation and Women -- Population Explosion and the Environment -- Urbanization and Women in Slums and Squatter Settlements.

Concluding Remarks -- Part IV Science and Technology Policy -- 5 Science, Technology and National Goals: a Study of the Role of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research in the Agricultural Development of India -- Mandate -- Organization -- The Headquarters -- Autonomy -- ICAR and the National Agricultural Research System -- Research Planning -- Financing Agricultural Research -- Human Resources -- Research Monitoring and Evaluation -- Agricultural Community Outreach -- Concluding Observations -- 6 The State and Information Technology in India: Emerging Trends -- The State: Continuity and Change -- The State in Crisis -- The Monopoly Capitalist State -- Information Technology and the State in India -- The Myth of Self-reliance -- A Captive Labour Pool -- Conclusion -- 7 Administering Electronics: the Experience of India and Brazil -- Introduction -- Some Theoretical Considerations -- Managing 'the Electronics Revolution': the Experience of India and Brazil -- The Role of Political and Administrative Structures -- Conclusion -- Part V Political Reform -- 8 Panchayati Raj: the Indian Model of Local Self-government -- 9 General Elections in India, 1989 -- Index.

This title was forst published in 2000: An analysis of India's development and public policy from perspectives of five major fields of public policy: economic, social, environmental, scientific/technological and political.

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