CONTENTS Preface Contributors Introduction Biswajit Ghosh Section I Interrogating Development Discourse Development Theory: Rhetoric and Reality T.K. Oommen Understanding Development: Theory and Practice Biswajit Ghosh An Alternative Modernity: The Vision of Tagore and Gandhi Krityapriya Ghosh Section II State, Market and Civil Society State and Civil Society: Dialogue between the Deaf and the Dumb in India Apurba Kumar Mukhopadhyay The Adivasiin a Liberal Democratic Order and Their Struggle for a Self Sanjay K. Roy Development Through Voluntary Actions: The Paradigm of NGO-isation Biswajit Ghosh Section III Gender and Development 7 Gender and Globalisation: Shifts in Developmental Paradigms Maitrayee Chaudhuri 8 Political Empowerment of Women in India: Discourse and Reality Swapan Kumar Pramanick 9 Women, Poverty and Empowerment: Rethinking Microflnance After the Global Crisis Anup Dash and Souvagya Laxmi Saran Section IV Science, Environment and Development 10 Science, Environment and Development: Issues in the Structural Crisis of Capital Subhasis Bandyopadhyay 11 Development or Livelihood Insecurity of Ecosystem People?: The Social and Ecological Costs of Modern Development in Contemporary India Rajkishor Meher 12 Policy Planning in Development Projects: Processes and Limitations Manish K, Verma 13 From Alternative Development to Developmentalism?: A Narrative of the People's Science Movement in Kerala Shoma Choudhury Lahtri Section V Society, Community and Development 14 Social Development, Deprivations and Social Movements in India DebalK. SinghaRoy 15 Tribes and Development in India: Some Observations Virginius Xaxa 16 Towards Analysing the Muslim Situation in India: Perspectives from Community, Society and State Sekh Rahim Mondal Index