POLITY, CIVIL SOCIETY AND DEVELOPMENT: Modernization, Globalization and Social Transformation

This book is the third of the four-volume Festschrift – Modernization, Globalization and Social Transformation – in honour of one of the stalwarts of sociology in India, Professor Yogendra Singh.
In the first section of this volume, papers focusing on such aspects of polity and civil society as Indian democracy, dynamics of development, citizenship, Naxal movement, nativism, regionalism, nationalism, radical nationalism, freedom movement, civil resistance, Fiji Indian quest for power, socio-cultural transformation of Indians in the US, etc., have been written by most eminent sociologists.
Likewise, in the second section on development, such themes as sustainable development, Gandhi’s development philosophy, social development and new economic policy, equitable development paradigm, communication as a development resource, technological advancements and its impact on youth, civilizational transformation of indigenous people, state, market economy and rural degeneration, dynamics of economic reforms in revamping rural India, sociology of health and health inequalities as well as health care, suicides among cultivators, and biotech crops etc. have been discussed. Several of these themes have been examined in the context of globalization.

Ishwar Modi, a pioneer of Leisure Studies in India and a former Director, Centre for Leisure and Tourism Studies, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, is presently the Director, India International Institute of Social Sciences. A former President of the Indian Sociological Society, he is also an Executive Committee Member of the International Sociological Association and President of its Research Committee on Sociology of Leisure. He has authored, co-authored and edited several books and is also on the editorial board of several national and international journals.