This book discusses various debates around the policy of rural development in India. Various authors in this volume attempt to show how the issue of rural development requires looking into multiple issues at hand. Looking at the issue from the dignity perspective, it not only offers a critique of the existing policy framework but also proposes an alternative one. Building upon empirical studies comparing India with other countries or discussing specific cases within India, authors have attempted to put up different perspectives on rural development together. It offers fresh insights into the debate as the existing debate on the subject largely revolves around farm-related issues or the challenges of income enhancement. It attempts to show that the idea of rural development needs to be broadened to incorporate other critical issues such as rural infrastructure building, women's dignity, industrialization, etc. This book in this sense initiates a new debate on rural development in India in academic discourse.
Chapter 1: Introduction: Rural Dignity: Conceptual Evolution,
Manifestations and Emerging Challenges.
Chapter 2: Empowering Women
Through Sports: Case of Rural Haryana.
Chapter 3: Access to land and
housing: An analysis of PMAY-Gramin.
Chapter 4: Housing and Womens Sense of
Dignity in Rural India: A Field Analysis.
Chapter 5: Right to Work, Dignity
and Welfare Surveillance in Indias Rural Employment Programme.
Chapter 6:
Re-Powering Rural Dignity: Rural Transformation Through Energy Transition.-
Chapter 7: Recalibrating Quality of Education: A Study of Rural-Urban Schools
in Uttar Pradesh.
Chapter 8: Communalism in the Countryside: The Interface
of Rural Transformation and Religious Majoritarianism in Bihar.
Chapter 9:
Navigating Adversity: Struggle for the Dignity of the Nishad Community in
Rural Western Uttar Pradesh.
Chapter 10: Suicides in Agrarian Society:
Exploring Dignity and Humiliation in Rural Punjab.
Chapter 11: Caste,
Hierarchy and Dignity: A Study of Rural Uttar Pradesh.
Chapter 12:
Reproduction of Rural Insecurities in Urban Spaces: Women Garment Workers in
Delhi NCR region.
Chapter 13: Farmers as Villains: Case of Air Pollution in
National Capital Territory of Delhi and Stubble Burning in North India.
Dr. Sudhir Kumar Suthar teaches at the Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. His areas of specialization are governance, rural and agrarian politics and movements, political psychology, international relations and research methodology.
