Essays Unpleasant
E-Book, Englisch, 183 Seiten, eBook
ISBN: 978-81-322-1017-7
Verlag: Springer India
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Arup Maharatna has held the post of Professor at the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics since 2001. Prior to his current appointment he was of Professor of Economics and before that Head of Department of Economics at the University of Burdwan. Arup Maharatna did his Masters and Ph.D. in Demography at the London School of Economics from 1988-1992. Futhermore, he did his Bell Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University from 1997-98. He has authored two books/monographs published by the Oxford University Press.
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PART I: Quarrelling with Indian Perceptions.- Chapter 1: Quarrelling with Indian Perceptions.- Chapter 2: Dear, departed ones.- Chapter 3: ‘Dreaming Bengal’.- Chapter 4: Reforming Babu’s Worldview.- Chapter 5: The National Library, Calcutta: A Reader’s Rendition.- Chapter 6: An Anatomy of Work Culture.- Chapter 7: Sketching Tagore as a Social Activist.- Chapter 8: India’s family planning programme: a muddle extraordinary.- Chapter 9: In Resurrection of Gunnar Myrdal’s Asian Drama.- PART II: Market, Media, and Development.- Chapter 10: On the Invasion of Neo-liberalism into Development Thinking.- Chapter 11: What education?.- Chapter 12: What is meant by ‘changing times’ after all?.- Chapter 13: Commodities, Comforts, and Chaos.- Chapter 14: Market, Media, and Mediocrity.- Chapter 15: Migration, Mediocrity and Misery.- Chapter 16: In the name of ‘accident’: India’s road traffic deaths and injuries?.- Chapter 17: The Demography of North-East India: Perilous Pluralism?.- PART III: Society, Culture, and Dilemmas.- Chapter 18: ‘Who is civilised’? On the tribal traditions, society, and culture.- Chapter 19: India’s Social Stratification: Demography and Dilemmas.- Chapter 20: Aping the ‘awful’? Recent Trends in India’s North-South Cultural Divide.- Chapter 21: Understanding Modern Hindu Mind: Resurrecting Ashok Rudra’s Reading.