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This volume Dreams and Realities of Rural Development in India, contains various problematic issues of rural development in India which has become a familiar subject in the academic arena. The uniqueness of the book lies in presentation of materials in fifteen innovative chapters important to understand different problematic dimensions of rural and tribal development. This book is a collection of research papers presented in various national seminars and reflect sincere effort of author to address different issues like displacement, marginalization, globalization, political and economic movements, environment and women empowerment.

This book will be useful to the researchers, master degree students, and faculties in Rural Development, Social Anthropology, Sociology and Social work in understanding problems of development in Rural India and processes of social movements. The volume will also be useful to Policy makers.

Contents: Preface. 1. Dreams and realities of rural development in India. 2. Indigenous health care systems: a case study of traditional healers and tribal vaidyas. 3. Cultural traits of rural Jharkhand. 4. Political and economic movements in Jharkhand. 5. Environmental stress and displacement. 6. Gender and livelihood: needed women entrepreneurship in Jharkhand. 7. Constraints of SHG promotion in most backward regions, tribal dominated and left-wing influenced areas. 8. Marginalization and development. 9. Strengthening human development strategies for education in Jharkhand. 10. Cultivation in Jharkhand: need for management of water and land resources. 11. People’s participation and food security. 12. Tribal and their environment. 13. Globalization and its effect in general and on tribal in particular. 14. From hill to plain: an experiment in applied and action anthropology in India. 15. Empowerment of tribal women: challenges and strategies. Index.