Contents Acknowledgements VII Contributors IX Part I Introduction 1 Introduction 3 Richard Pais 2 Professor Rajeshwar Prasad: Profile of a Legend 22 K. Gopal 3 Social Science Vision of Professor Rajeshwar Prasad 35 Richard Pais Part II Social Science and Development 4 Role and Status of Social Science in Developing Societies 69 Bindeshwar Pathak 5 Social Science and Development 77 Sachchidananda 6 Intellectual Interest, Ideas and Social Science Research: Trends and Perspectives 88 Amitabh Kundu 7 Status of Social Science in the Context of Globalization and the Third World 105 Kameshwar Choudhary 8 Globalization and Social Development: The Employment and Training Dimension 134 Ashok Chandra 9 Bureaucracy, Information Technology and Social Development 165 Jag Mohan Verma 10Impact of Human and Economic Development on Migration Destination 175 Norbert Lobo 11Panchmukhi Path: A Development Strategy 193 H.M. Marulasiddaiah Part III Perspectives on Development 12 Guns, Greed and Gods: The Ordeal of Social Sciences 203 Brij Mohan 13A Sustainable Technological Transformation Needs Human Face: Some Case Studies of Rural Development 217 Subhan Khan 14. Social and Economic Dimensions of India's Science and Technology Policy 233 M.A. Qureshi 15Social Control and the Social Sector: Mental Health Legislations in Colonial India 246 Parthasarathi Mondal 16Social Work Intervention in the Area of Mental Health 264 Satya Prakash Gupta 17Culture: An Explanatory Concept of Society 273 Jamil Farooqui 18Impact of HIV/AIDS on the Aged: A Case Study in Rural West Bengal 295 Prafulla Chakrabarti Index 325