India's Economy and Society: Lateral Explorations (Paperback)

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part 1: Agriculture.- Chapter 2. The Crisis in Indian Agriculture: Genesis, Response and Future Prospects.- Chapter 3. Supply Chain Management of Food Grains in India.- Part 2: Industry, Innovation and Technology.- Chapter 4. Regional Concentration of Industries in India: What does the recent data say and how to understand the implications? A Perspective.- Chapter 5. Indian Electronics Industry’s FDI-led GVC Engagement: Insights from a firm-level analysis.- Chapter 6. India’s performance in Science, Technology and Innovation: the post 2000 scenario.- Part 3: Infrastructure.- Chapter 7. Financing of Infrastructure in India ? Issues and the Way Forward.- Chapter 8. Land For Development: Market versus Non-market Mechanisms.- Part 4: International trade.- Chapter 9. Looking at India’s Engineering Exports: Stuck in the middle of the Value Chain.- Part 5: Health and Education.- Chapter 10. Towards Universal Health Coverage? Taking Stock of Two Decades of Health Reforms in India.- Chapter 11. Changing Landscape of Professional Higher Education in India: What Do We Know and What Do Recent Data Tell Us?.- Part 6: Labour and Employment.- Chapter 12. Has Labour Rigidity Slowed down Employment Growth in Indian Manufacturing?.- Part 7: Gender.- Chapter 13. The Girl-Only Family in the Era of Sex Selection: Challenges for a Cultural Economy of Gender.- Chapter 14. Interrogating Agency and Marital Mobility in Cross-Regional Marriage-Scapes in India: A Case Study of Haryana Kalyanams.- Chapter 15. Gender and Development: Back to Basics Continued Relevance of Marcal’s Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner.- Chapter 16. Women, the Planned Economy and the Anticipation of Utopia.