Human bondage: tracing its roots in India/ Lakshmidhar Mishra.
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2011Description: xix, 487 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 9788132105602 (hard back); 8132105605 (hard back)Subject(s): Peonage -- India | Poor -- India -- Social conditions | Land tenure -- India | Social justice -- IndiaDDC classification: 331.10954Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 331.10954 MIS/H (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P22533 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Historical perspective -- Concept and definition -- Unemployment, underemployment, and income insecurity -- Poverty, population explosion, hunger, and malnutrition -- Minimum wage -- Migration -- Caste hierarchy -- Land tenurial system -- Tribal land alienation -- Illiteracy -- Child labour and trafficking -- Devadasis and Yoginis -- Credit and indebtedness -- Globalization, state, and market -- Constitutional and legal provisions -- National policy and implementation of the program at the state level -- International instruments and initiatives -- Public interest litigation and judicial activism -- Role of voluntary organizations -- Role of trade unions of workers and employer's organizations -- Role of media and communication agencies -- In retrospect and prospect.
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