About the Book

Emerging global market economy created by finance capital and technological revolution accelerated economic growth process followed by economic and financial crisis in various countries the world over. The development process has led to widening of interregional and interpersonal socio-economic disparities and marginalization, also threatening environmental sustainability of the growth process. Fast changes in the political and social institutions which accompanied the growth trajectory led to emergence of new challenges of political representation and social relations in terms of gender and culture with shifting power relations. This collection of papers provides new insights into methodological innovations required to grapple with emerging socio-economic issues in the era of globalization. Selected papers have been grouped into eight thematic sections with porous boundaries in an interdisciplinary framework. It is expected that issues raised and methodological innovations will help young researchers comprehend much needed new art of doing research on issues emerging in the society. It will be immensely useful to the policy makers in decision making. CONTRIBUTORS Amit Bhaduri B.N. Prasad Bhavya Maheshwari Gangotri Mishra Virendra B. Shahare Khushbu Rani Gupta Binay Kumar Pathak Nivedita Sarkar Devesh Vijay Archana Pandey Rukmani Pragya Pandey Sujeet Kumar Sumit Kumar Akram Hannan Hemant Kumar Varshney Anuneeta Mitra Amardeep Kumar Shraddha Srivastava Swadhin Mondal Diksha Jha Sandeep Bhatt Karabi Chetia Ranjana Upadhyay Sunita Sangar

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Contents

Part 1: Challenges Before Social Sciences
1. How to Do Social Science Research? / Amit Bhaduri
2. Democracy, Development and Subaltern: Radical Agrarian Movement in Bihar / B.N. Prasad

Part 2: The State Market and Globalization

3. Globalization and the Indian Capital Market / Bhavya Maheshwari and Gangotri Mishra
4. Livelihood Issues and Inequality among Dalits in the Era of Globalization / Virendra B. Shahare

Part 3: Group Inequalities and Marginalization

5. Private Unaided School, Elite Spaces and Disadvantaged Children: How Inclusive is the RTE Act, 2009? / Khushbu R. Gupta
6. Cost and Pricing of Higher Education: Emerging Concerns for Equity and Affordability / Binay Kumar Pathak
7. Inequalities in Participation in Higher Education in India: Role of Household Characteristics / Nivedita Sarkar
8. Transitions in Livelihoods: Long-Term Study of a Slum in East Delhi / Devesh Vijay

Part 4: Environment: The Regional Context

9. A Losing Battle with Development and Human Indifference: A Case of Gomti River in Lucknow / Archana Pandey
10. Governing the Forest Resources: A Case Study of Uttarakhand / Rukmani
11. Emerging Environmental Security Threats to the Maritime Security in the Indian Ocean Region: Challenges and Responses / Pragya Pandey

Part 5: Urbanization, Migration and Informal Sector

12. Urbanization and Slum Dwellers: A Study of NGOs in Delhi’s Slum / Sujeet Kumar
13. Decision of Migration: A Case Sudy of Students from Bihar Enrolled in University of Delhi / Sumit Kumar

Part 6: Public Policies and Institutional Change

14. Dimensions of Urban Female Educational Status and its Linkages in Eastern Uttar Pradesh / Akram Hannan
15. Gender Disparity in Literacy in India: Reflections from Census Data / Hemant Kumar Varshney
16. Benefit Incidence Analysis of Public Spending on Education in India / Anuneeta Mitra
17. Participation of Mahadalit Students in Higher Education: A Case Study in Gaya District of Bihar / Amardeep Kumar
18. Child Nutrition in National Food Security Bill (2013): Some Evidences / Shraddha Srivastava
19. Progressive Horizontal and Vertical Equity in Healthcare Financing in India / Swadhin Mondal

Part 7: Democracy and Representation

20. Democracy and Pluralism: Immigrant Incorporation and Citizenship / Diksha Jha
21. New Media in India: An Overview of Internet and Mobile Technologies / Sandeep Bhatt
22. Minorities within Autonomous Areas / Karabi Chetia

Part 8: Gender, Culture and Power

23. Women, Power and Culture / Ranjana Upadhyay
24. Enabling Women Entrepreneurs through MSMEs: A Road Map for their Economic Empowerment / Sunita Sangar

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About the Author / Editor

Surinder Kumar is Director, Giri Institute of Development Studies (GIDS), Lucknow. A doctorate from JNU, New Delhi, he was Ford Foundation Visiting Scholar, State University of New Jersey and LBL, University of California, Berkeley. Formerly, he was Professor and Head, Department of Economics; Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences; and Dean Academic Affairs at Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak. Before joining GIDS, he was RBI Chair Professor at Centre for Rural and Industrial Development, Chandigarh. Besides books, he has published widely in international and national journals.

Fahimuddin is Professor of Economics at the Giri Institute of Development Studies, Lucknow. He has thirty five years of experience in conducting research and teaching in the field of Development Studies. The focus of his research work has been on poverty alleviation, agriculture and educational development, marginalized groups and strengthening of grass root institutions of governance. He has authored six books and has published large number of papers in various reputed journals. He has visited China, Thailand and Iran under the Scholar Exchange Programme of the ICSSR.

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