ISBN:
1443811386
,
9781443811385
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (88 p.)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mukherjee, Ramkrishna Measure of Time in the Appraisal of Social Reality
DDC:
303.40954
Keywords:
History
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General
;
Politics and government
;
History
;
Research methods: general
;
Society & social sciences
;
Society & culture: general
;
India Politics and government
;
1977-
;
India
;
Electronic books
;
India Politics and government 1977-
;
India
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Coming on the eve of the Indian elections of 2009, The Measure of Time in the Appraisal of Social Reality is a timely and an explosive expose of what went wrong in Indian developmental planning. Focussing on the land, caste and gender issues, and advocating a place-time-people based research agenda, the Measure of Time is a scathing critique of how the elite nexus between politics and academic neo colonialism has subverted the course of genuine development in India. This is a must read for
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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