Human Development and Social Power: Perspectives from South Asia Book

Contents: Introduction: Human development has the Paradigm failed us?. 1. Conceptualising human development: towards a social power approach. 2. Human development in India: a profile of unevenness. 3. Uneven human development in India: a social power perspective. 4. Human development in Pakistan and Bangladesh: a profile. 5. Uneven human development in Pakistan and Bangladesh. 6. Conclusions: agency, human development and social power.

"This book explores the unevenness of human development with respect to the question of difference. The author develops a conceptual framework that focuses on social power, whereby human development is seen as a processes of reconstruction of the matrices of social power."