Perspectives on Economic Development and Social Change : Essays in Honour of Professor K.S. Chalam Book
Contents: Prologue. Acknowledgements. I. Social change and economic development: 1. Agrarian changes, poverty and scheduled castes in Karnataka/R.S. Deshpande and G. Sridevi. 2. Does caste still matter in Kerala?/Ashwini Deshpande. 3. Changing land and labour market in Tamil Nadu/V. Sivasankar. 4. "Old Wine in New Bottle", will it sell? Paradigm shift in public sector enterprises in South India/M. Uma Maheshwari. 5. Development remittances in India: a micro perspective/Adapa Satyanarayana. 6. Economic development of the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes: a case study of Tamil Nadu/M. Thangaraj. 7. Agricultural development in Andhra Pradesh (1980-81 to 2000-2001)/Macharla Prasada Rao. II. History, culture and social structure: 8. Dalit education and consciousness in Andhra/Yagati Chinna Rao. 9. Social history of occupational caste groups in Madras in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries/Vikram Harijan. 10. Popular culture and the marginals in Medieval Andhra/S. Victor Babu. 11. The Gudem Tribal Revolt of 1886/B. Rama Chandra Reddy. 12. Indigenous tribes of North Telangana: a retrospective profile/K. Arjun Rao. 13. Naxalite Movement in Andhra Pradesh: fragmentation and disintegration/P. Arun Kumar. III. Policy and planning: 14. Public Debt in Andhra Pradesh (1984-85 to 2003-04)/Macharla Prasada Rao. 15. Women education and maternal and infant mortality in South India: an empirical analysis/D. Pulla Rao and D. Francis. 16. Tamil Nadu fisheries: an analysis of its growth/Shyam Salim and G. Gogula Ramanan. 17. An analysis of internal migration in Andhra Pradesh/M. Koteswara Rao. 18. Participatory planning: a comparative study of Kerala's People's Plan and Janmabhoomi Programme of Andhra Pradesh/Bonagani Rama Rao. 19. Planning a metropolitan city in a South Indian state: The case of the Chennai City/M.K.S. Vaseekaran. Epilogue: An introduction to a scholar of visions Avinash Kumar Misra and Puja Rani. Contributors.
"Essays in this festschrift, brought out in honour of Professor K.S. Chalam, are highly specialized, covering the four states of Southern India. These are the analytical essays on the history and socio-economic transformation of the marginal communities or disprivileged groups, i.e., Dalits, tribes and other occupational communities. The essays focus on these social categories and reflect on economic development, and the process of social change.
Professor Chalam is a trained economist, specialized in broader themes like economics of education, political economy, public economics and Dravidian studies. Perhaps he is one of the few economists, who has widely written, over four decades, on education and the disprivileged – an issue that has re-emerged and has been intensely debated in recent years.
He has pioneered some innovative ideas in his interdisciplinary studies like 'Education and Weaker Sections' two decades ago when there were very few serious works drawing from history, economics, education, sociology and related disciplines. Therefore, this volume has been planned in such a way that the essays incorporate all his cherished ideas." (jacket)