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Tables of Contents for Indian Development
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Figures and Tables
xv
1. Radical Needs and Moderate Reforms
1
32
Amartya Sen
1 Ends, Means and Practical Reason
1
2
2 Regional Diversities and Contrasts
3
2
3 Intrinsic Value and Instrumental Role of Human Capabilities
5
2
4 On Learning from Others and from India
7
1
5 Counterproductive Regulations and Necessary Reformas
8
2
6 India and China: Comparisons and Contrasts
10
4
7 India's Educational Backwardness and Lessons of Kerala
14
5
8 The Economic Handicap of Educational Backwardness
19
4
9 The Role of Pre-reform China in its Post-reform Success
23
2
10 Economic Development through Social Opportunity
25
2
11 The Need for a Bigger Departure
27
6
2. Uttar Pradesh: The Burden of Inertia
33
96
Jean Dreze
Haris Gazdar
1 Introduction
33
4
2 Living Conditions in Uttar Pradesh
37
25
3 Schooling in Uttar Pradesh: A Field Investigation
62
13
4 Public Policy and Schooling Decisions
75
15
5 The Burden of Inertia
90
18
6 Concluding Remarks
108
21
3. Agrarian Politics and Rural Development in West Bengal
129
76
Sunil Sengupta
Haris Gazdar
1 Why Look at Rural West Bengal?
129
7
2 Political Economy of the Reform Programme
136
27
3 Impact on Livelihoods
163
19
4 Change and Stagnation
182
14
5 Beyond the Agrarian Agenda
196
9
4. On Kerala's Development Achievements
205
152
V. K. Ramachandran
1 Introduction
205
3
2 Background
208
16
3 Kerala's Health Achievements
224
31
4 Literacy in Kerala
255
19
5 Aspects of Caste and Gender Relations in Kerala
274
6
6 Agrarian Change
280
20
7 Agents of Change
300
25
8 Conclusions
325
32
5. Mortality, Fertility and Gender Bias in India: A District-level Analysis
357
50
Mamta Murthi
Anne-Catherine Guio
Jean Dreze
1 Introduction
357
1
2 Issues and Hypotheses
358
17
3 Data and Estimation
375
6
4 Basic Results
381
6
5 Further Results and Extensions
387
6
6 Discussion
393
14
Name Index
407
8
Subject Index
415