TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patel, Sujata , ed.
AU  - Bagchi, Jasodhara, ed.
AU  - Raj, Krishna, ed.
TI  - Thinking social science in India: essays in honour of Alice Thorner
SN  - 0761996001
U1  - 306.0954 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - SAGE Publications
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - India
KW  - Agriculture and state
KW  - India - 1947
N1  - Alice Thorner - Sujata Patel An Appreciation 

PART ONE: REFLECTING ON CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES
The Small Peasant - Nirmal Kumar Chandra -- Marxist Tradition and Chayanov: On Famine and Measuring `Famine Deaths' -- Utsa Patnaik -- Uses of History - Elizabeth Whitcombe India's Contribution to the Study of Climate and Disease Subaltern Studies as Post-Colonial Critique of Modernity - Jacques Pouchepadass M N Srinivas's Contribution to Understanding Gender - Maithreyi Krishnaraj From Exclusion to Marginalisation? Hegemonic Agendas and Women's Writing - Uma Chakravarty Small is Beautiful - Leela Gulati Case Study as a Method in Social Science



PART TWO: JOURNEY OF THE ECONOMY
The Halting Journey - Ashok Mitra -- Poverty and Inequality in India - K Sardamoni -- An Examination of the First Three Five-Year Plans: Labour and Employment - K S Krishnaswamy -- Certain Current Issues: Working Mothers, Poverty and Child Loss - N Krishnaji -- Gendered Labour Markets and Globalisation in Asia - Gita Sen -- What Happened to Land Reform? - Joan Mencher -- Consumerism and New Classes in India - Achin Vanaik

PART THREE: CULTURE, LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE
Civil Strife - Meena Alexander -- Home at the Edge of the World: Older Women, Past and Present, in an Indian Muslim Family - Sylvia Vatuk --`Baby' Iconography - Patricia Uberoi -- Constructing Childhood in Indian Calendar Art: Allies, Confidants and Beloveds - G Arunima --Representations of Ideas of Friendship in Nineteenth-Century Kerala: Gender, Moral Regulations, and Narrative Formation in Epic Poetry - Nabaneeta Dev Sen -- Traversing through Gendered Spaces - Neera Desai -- Insights from Some Narratives: Linguistic Methods and Minority Languages in India - Tista Bagchi

PART FOUR: POLITICS IN HISTORY AND HISTORY IN POLITICS
Nationalism and Human Development - Amiya Kumar Bagchi -- Time and Nation - Jim Masselos -- Talking the National Language - David Lelyveld -- Hindi/Urdu/Hindustani in Indian Broadcasting and Cinema Representing Gandhi in Independent India - Claude Markovits -- Jawaharlal Nehru, Big Business and the Liaquat Ali Khan Budget of 1947 - Nasir Tyabji -- Bombay\Mumbai and the Ambedkar Movement - Eleanor Zelliot -- Past and Present: The Changing Identity of the Jats in North India - Christophe Jaffrelot -- Kshatriyas, Kisans or Backwards?Then and Now - Rajni Kothari -- The `Great Indian Experiment: The Changing Definition of Rights in India - Manoranjan Mohanty -- Pluralism, State and Society in India - Sunanda Sen
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