About the Book: Society and Development: Regional Perspectives
The notion of the region and its Significance in contemporary Societics is much
debated and Contested.Visible uneven development and rising inegualities have
forcen social scientists,analysts and policy Makers to rethink development in a
regional perspective. This collection of select papers presented at the First
Northern Regional Social Science Congress held in 2013 in Jaipur offers a
regional perspective on Society and development.The papers address a widerange
of developmental problems of the Northern Region in the Social sciences from an
interdisciplinary perspective.