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section 1. Introduction -- section 2. Engaging with subaltern studies in India -- section 3. Subaltern reproduction through idea, knowledge and power -- section 4. Routes of subjugation and emancipation: identity and assertion, mobilization and power, knowledge and production -- section 5. Aspects of social and cultural changes
In: Social change, Volume 46, Issue 1, p. 155-158
ISSN: 0976-3538
K. B. Saxena, Contemporary Practices of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme: Insights from Districts, New Delhi, SAGE Publications, 2015, 120 pp., ₹ 995, ISBN: 9789351502715.
In: Social change, Volume 45, Issue 4, p. 534-560
ISSN: 0976-3538
The Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) in India plays an important role in providing food grains to the poor at subsidised prices. However, it has not been very successful in accomplishing its objective in many states. To make the distribution of cereals more effective, Bihar replaced the ration card with a new instrument of delivery in 2008—a 12-page booklet of coupons to be given annually to beneficiaries. This study, based on a panel survey conducted in 18 villages across three districts of Bihar, evaluates the new system. It argues that the innovation has been successful on four counts: power relations have changed between beneficiaries and powerful dealers of fair price shops through which food grains are distributed; leakages have reduced; beneficiaries have been empowered by making information available; and demand-side pressure from below has been generated on supply-driven distribution channels. This article attributes the better distribution of food grains since 2008 in the state to political expediency, administrative measures and to the coupon system, even though administrating it is much more challenging. Finally, the essay argues that the TPDS in the state needs a complete overhaul, as a piecemeal approach, such as introducing the coupon system, has a limited impact.
In: Contemporary South Asia, Volume 23, Issue 4, p. 498-500
ISSN: 1469-364X
In: Indian journal of public administration, Volume 61, Issue 4, p. 611-632
ISSN: 2457-0222
In: Social change, Volume 44, Issue 4, p. 639-642
ISSN: 0976-3538
Vandana Vasudevan, Urban Villager: Life in an Indian Satellite Town, Delhi, Sage, 2013, x + 280 pp., ₹625.
In: Social change, Volume 44, Issue 3, p. 485-488
ISSN: 0976-3538
Hira Singh, Recasting Caste: From Sacred to the Profane, Delhi, SAGE Publications, 2014, pp. XIX + 288, ₹795.
In: Contemporary South Asia, Volume 22, Issue 3, p. 322-323
ISSN: 1469-364X
In: Social change, Volume 44, Issue 2, p. 325-328
ISSN: 0976-3538
In: Journal of Asian and African studies: JAAS, Volume 45, Issue 5, p. 584-586
ISSN: 1745-2538
In: Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Volume 46, Issue 4, p. 557-559
In: Indian journal of public administration, Volume 53, Issue 4, p. 860-865
ISSN: 2457-0222
In: Journal of Asian and African studies: JAAS, Volume 42, Issue 3-4, p. 321-327
ISSN: 1745-2538
In: Indian journal of public administration, Volume 53, Issue 1, p. 141-145
ISSN: 2457-0222
In: Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Volume 45, Issue 1, p. 120-121