Development Process and Social Movements in Contemporary India
Development Process and Social Movements in Contemporary India
Development Process and Social Movements in Contemporary India
Social Movements in
Contemporary India
Course Structure
Mixed Economy Dalit and
& Privatization Agrarian Impact & Women’s
Development Reforms & Labor Development Challenges Movement
Planning Industrial New Middle Land Reforms & Tribal, Peasant Civil Rights
Development Class Green and Workers’s Movement
Strategy Revolution Movement
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1. Development Process since Independence
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What is Development ?
❖ The idea of improvement, progress and aspiration for a better
standard of living .
❖ Development is a relative concept and thus one’s perception of
‘developed’ differs from individual to individual
❖ The notion of development of state has to be a right mix of various
factors.
“ A holistic process of economic, cultural
and social development in which all
human rights and fundamental freedoms
can be fully realized. Every human is
entitled to participate in, contribute to
and enjoy the process of development.
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Right to Development as Human Rights
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Indicators of Development
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Right to Development as Sustainable Development
‘We have not inherited the resources from our ancestors but borrowed it from
our children’
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Right to Development as Freedom
❖ Work of Amartya Sen
❖ Dialectical relationship of economic development and freedom
❖ Freedom: Health Care, Education, Political Dissent, economic market and equality.
❖ Freedom as an end and a means of development
❖ Removal of unfreedom for development which comprises of social depravation,
intolerance, lack of public facilities, poverty and tyranny.
❖ Development in enhancing the capability approach of an individual.
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The path of Indian Development
‘The basic foundation on which India embarked its journey of development
included the ending of poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of
opportunity.’
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