Development, decentralisation and democracy : Essays for M.A. Oommen / edited by Ash Narain Roy and George Mathew.

Contributed articles.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents Preface. Introduction. I. Personal reminiscences 1. Yogesh Atal the making of a social scientist/Brij Raj Chauhan. 2. A personal note/Leela Dube. 3. Yogesh Atal through a friend's eye/Jainendra K. Doshi. 4. Rendezvous in Paris/Jagdish Kumar Pundir. 5. Sandwich culture a case for study/Sanket Atal. 6. Demonstration effect/Vinod Mehta. 7. AASSREC and Dr. Yogesh Atal/Virginia A. Miralao. 8. Professor Yogesh Atal a moving force behind AASSREC/J.J. Smolicz. II. Emerging social science concerns the global context 9. Towards a democratic regulation of globalization/Ali Kazancigil. 10. Tradition and modernity in an era of global change/J.J. Smolicz. 11. Globalization how novel. How noble/K.N. Sharma. 12. Information and communication technology challenges to democracy in Asia/Binod C. Agrawal. 13. Gender construction and media presentation representation and repression/N.K. Singhi. 14. Women and environmental crisis a spill over of economic development/Suguna Pathy. 15. Poverty in transition and transition in poverty poverty poverty and poverty/Rajeshwar Prasad. 16. The dynamics of language in Indian diaspora the case of Bhojpuri/Hindi in Trinidad/N. Jayaram. 17. India in Thailand explorations of a sandwich culture/Ruchira Mishra. 18. Indian diaspora a comparative study of Punjabis and Gorakhpuris in Thailand/Surendra K. Gupta. III. Exploring India 19. Social science activity in India and the IASSI/A.K. Dasgupta. 20. Theoretical trends in post independence ethnographies of India/Giri Raj Gupta and Satish Kedia. 21. Jayaprakash Narayan from Gramdan to Sampoorna Kranti/Partha Nath Mukherji. 22. India's experiments with decentralisation a historical account/S.N. Jha. 23. Half a century of urban sociology in India/Ranvinder Singh Sandhu. 24. Involuntary resettlement and voluntary organisations some emerging issues/Hari Mohan Mathur. 25. Brain drain or the migration of talent/T.K. Oommen. 26. Contesting and contested self identities Mathura's Chaubes/Owen M. Lynch. 27. Custom religion and social change among the Meos of Mewat/Abha Chauhan. 28. Dalits in India past identities and present scenario/Jagdish Kumar Pundir. 29. Proselytism and status enhancement a comparative study of scheduled castes and Christian converts from scheduled castes/D. Venkateswarlu and Rev.V. Antony Raj. 30. Implications of socio economic adversities of farmers in Punjab a case study/Sukhdev Singh and Mandeep Kaur. 31. Kitchen to kitchen via the market poor women becoming self reliant/Nishitha Sharma. List of publications of Professor Yogesh Atal. Index. This book is to celebrate the achievements of Professor Yogesh Atal one of India's leading social scientists. He has assiduously worked for more than four decades for the growth and development of not only sociology but also all the social sciences in the entire region of the Asia Pacific. As UNESCO's adviser for social and human sciences in Asia and the Pacific Professor Atal catalyzed thinking on issues of social relevance and promoted research on them. The essays contained in this festschrift include personal reminiscences and evaluations of Professor Atal's work as also those focusing on emerging social science concerns. Hence the title. The book opens with a critical evaluation of Professor Atal's contributions to Asian social science to social science theory and methodology. Besides the encomiums and reminiscences of encounters with Professor Atal it reflect the social science concerns in the global and national contexts. The book has contributions from specialists both Indian and foreign belonging to different social sciences making it interdisciplinary in its orientation. 440 pp.