This book is the third of a four-volume festschrift in honor of one of the
stalwarts of sociology in India, Professor Yogendra Singh. The first section of
the book contains contributions that focus on aspects of polity and civil
society, such as: Indian democracy * the dynamics of development * citizenship *
nativism * regionalism * the freedom movement * civil resistance * the Fiji
Indian quest for power * socio-cultural transformation of Indians in the US *
etc. Likewise, in the second section on development, the book discusses such
themes as: sustainable development * Gandhi's development philosophy * equitable
development paradigm * technological advancements and its