Anjan Chakrabarti

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• Ph.D, Economics
• Professor-Director at North Bengal University

Urban and peri-urban spaces in India are rapidly evolving spatial units intrinsically linked with several economic and political agendas which often hardly lend them easy explanation by spatial and social scientists. Spatial scientists attempt to delineate the urban and peri-urban regions based on modern techniques to explain the spatial transforma...

Rapid economic growth coupled with urbanization has led to massive detrimental environmental quality. In addition to the severe crises of climate change, several metropolitan cities in India have experienced an additional impact on environmental quality. This paper examines the air and water quality in two metropolitan cities in India, Delhi and Ko...

With increasing urbanization, accompanied by the growing population, the number of vehicles in metropolitan cities has negatively impacted the environment and climate across all metropolitan cities in India. This excessive urbanization has overloaded the limited, scarce resources, and deteriorated the environmental quality, affecting natural resour...

The adoption of digital technology in education since the post-1990s has exacerbated urban–rural dichotomies, particularly during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. It led to digital information asymmetry among different population strata and paved a digital divide. The divergence in public internet access created an information gap, resulting in ine...

Our plan for this book is inspired by the Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) framework, propounded by the United Nations (UN). This framework not only connects sports to physical activity and human health outcomes through its ability to combat chronic diseases and improve mental and physical health, instead considers it as a catalyst of the soci...

This book addresses the “urban” and “peri-urban” spaces in India within a single frame. The reasoning is that while the former is studied for its transformation towards more value addition in terms of power and neoliberal economic viabilities, the latter is the land of visible transformation of the built environment. It acquaints readers with how t...

Apart from being a leading energy consumer, South Asia has the most significant carbon emission. Significantly all South Asian countries have ratified the Paris Agreement. Consequently, they must craft a robust transition policy to meet their commitment. Though the local context essentially defines the transition strategy, the global processes have...

Many of the Global South’s population lacks electricity access. In addition, Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7) aims to ensure universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services. Against this backdrop, the paper attempts to evaluate the accessibility of electricity and clean energy in the rural areas of the region Global South...

The last decade of the twentieth century saw the development of a new strategic vision, the Look East Policy, which has been rechristened as Act East and the Far East Policy in subsequent periods. It was envisioned to counter the expanding China’s influence on the maritime silk route of the Indian Ocean. The idea of inclusion in the Northeast regio...

The inception of this compendium was the culmination of a protracted dialogue spanning a decade with erudite academicians and intellectuals, who were engaged in an in-depth exploration of the complexities inherent in the region of North East India (NEI).

In the post-economic reform period, the overall economic growth of West Bengal has been increasing. However, agricultural growth has become sluggish since the 1990s. The relatively low contribution of the secondary sector reveals an absence of a strong manufacturing base in the state. The high contribution of the tertiary sector indicates diversifi...

The significant improvements India has made to girls' education over the last few decades indicate the country's attempts to achieve gender equality in education. In the 21st century, India has made significant strides in promoting girls' education through initiatives like Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, the Right to Education Act, and Beti Bachao Beti Padh...

This volume presents cutting-edge research on India's Northeast region relating to borders, material mobilities, contested identities, and economic and political dynamics. It offers a comprehensive understanding of the developmental challenges currently faced by Northeast India, including the complexities of the labor market and the neoliberal econ...

This edited volume seeks to record how different actors - state agencies, political leaders, businessmen, workers, investors, households, builders, real estate intermediaries, business owners, migrants, and many more, with their varying capacities to influence outcomes on the ground, interact with each other, and calibrate and re-calibrate multiple...

Modern development discourse and modernity, though changing continually, remain uncertain regarding the diversity of marital, familial, and related social arrangements. Modernity and marriage as social arrangements accept monogamy as moral backed by a legal framework, ‘polygyny as reasonable (even enviable)’ and covertly accepts polygamy. However,...

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a substantial need to introspect the socio-economic systems of specifically the developing nations has emerged. The outbreak of informal sector crises and the health crises have compelled the developing countries to revisit their development process. The status of informal employment and the prevailing inequ...

One of the major objectives of the British East India Company was to establish a monopoly over the lucrative textile trade and the highly productive fertile land of Bengal Presidency. Introduction of Permanent Settlement and Bengal Tenancy Act failed to inject capitalist farming in Bengal and instead increased sub-infeudation and economic distress...

The book is written strictly following the B.Com syllabus of the university of Calcutta. Students of B.Com of the other universities in West Bengal will also find the book useful to them. The topics contained in the book are presented in a very lucid manner with adequate explanation to suit the readers studying the subjects for the first time. Exer...

With the continuous pursuance of protective and proactive role by the government of India, the growth scenario of the North-Eastern states has become satisfactory. The percapita income is growing at a moderate rate. Income inequality and interstate disparities are declining. However, the worrying factor is that growth is pronounced where the govern...

The evolution of development discourse and institution building of every society depends on economic, political, social, and cultural factors of a region. The admixture of all these factors has, in turn, shaped a new society with its own socio-economic, cultural-politico specificities. Thus, as economic factors being the measures of the basic needs...

India resorted to a policy of comprehensive economic reforms in June 1991. However, deceleration in agricultural growth as well as decline in growth of output was accentuated since 1991at all India level as well as in West Bengal. In spite of the fact that West Bengal’s performance at all India level remained relatively better in comparison to slug...

River Ganges is one of most important river of India that originates in Uttarakhand and has several tributaries. Natural resources of this river system are being harnessed mciisaiminately including development of Hydroelectric Power Projects (HEPs). To increase power output from HEPs water is routed into the tunnels for turbines and because of this...

At the eve of independence, it was a daunting task before Nehru to frame a suitable policy of governance for the NorthEastern states hitherto separated from the colonial administrative mainstream. With the continuous pursuance of protective and proactive role by the government of India, the growth scenario of the NorthEastern states has turned out...

This book interrogates the idea of 'development' that has dominated contemporary socio-economic discourse in post-liberalization India, critiquing the diverse 'models of development and progress', providing an insight into its ideological connotations and its implications upon the lives of the marginalised and oppressed sections of society, particu...

Since 1980s, a significant improvement in agricultural growth was observed in eastern region, especially in West Bengal. The decade 1990s and subsequent periods, especially after the introduction of economic reforms, India and many of her agriculturally prosperous states including West Bengal are experiencing deceleration in agricultural growth of...

Since 1980s, a significant improvement in growth of agricultural production and productivity was observed in West Bengal. This study provides a clear indication that the turn around in West Bengal can not be attributed to institutional reforms alone; rather institutional reform, adoption and spread of green revolution technology and functioning of...

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After becoming the 22nd state of India in 1975, Sikkim is maintaining a double-digit growth for last three decades and a vast amount of human capital has also been created. Among the North-Eastern states, Sikkim's growth performance has mostly remained satisfactory. Sikkim has also strengthened its place in the national and international tourism ma...

It was a daunting task before the Nehru-led government to frame a suitable policy of governance for secluded NorthEastern states which were completely separated from mainstream British India. Due to the historical background as well as the geographical location of the region, the government of India has long tried to integrate the NorthEastern stat...

Most of the North-Eastern states of India have achieved double digit real economic growth. But findings are conclusively demonstrating few glaring inconsistencies that the North-Eastern states have experienced over last three decades. The Indian planning experiences and the policies that have been followed in the North-Eastern states are neither mo...

A close look at the agricultural scenario in the hill state of Sikkim reveals that it has gradually turned out to be a food deficient State from a food surplus State. Its growth of population has outweighed the growth of food grain production. The State has failed to augment agrarian reforms. Public investment in agriculture is on the decline. Limi...

A close look at the political history of Sikkim during monarchic rule unravels some disconcerting features. If the first phase of history (pre-British phase) showed marginalisation of the Lepchas and the Limboos by the immigrant Bhutias, the second phase of history (after the British became the de facto ruler) reflected the political hegemony of th...

Unlike the early Industrialised nations, most of present day’s developing countries started the process of industrialisation with a high degree of capital scarcity as well as by bypassing the process of investment of agricultural surplus in the industrial activities. Even though many developing countries like India, China achieved considerable succ...

With the publication of Garret Hardin’s “Tragedy of Commons”, the developed world took a serious note on conservation and it culminated in the concept of sustainable development. However, we observe a total absence of the recognition of the value of living nature and of nature as an environment of culture and human existence. It is predominantly gu...

A close look at the agricultural scenario in the hill state of Sikkim reveals that foodgrain production has been growing more slowly than population. The state has failed to augment agrarian reforms and public investment in agriculture has been on the decline. As a result, foodgrain production, productivity, gross sown area and the contribution of...

North-East of India has been characterized by extremes of uneven development and a consciousness of deprivation bulwarked against the silhouette of ethno-politics. The paper attempts at letting statistics speak for themselves while analyzing the sustainability dimensions of the development process dependent solely on Central assistance and grants-i...

Within the realm of development economics the book is an attempt to search for a right interrelationship amongst community, market and the State for promoting economic growth and to allow the trickle down effect of growth to reach the grass root level. The development process followed in post State hood period shows that serious attempts were made...

The economy of Arunachal Pradesh is growing at a yearly average of more than 7 percent, and its per capita income is more than Rs. 20000. The share of agriculture to Gross State Domestic product is declining and industry and services are increasing. .All these figures generally give us an impression that the economy of Arunachal Pradesh is performi...