TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sonalde Desai
AU  - Sonalde Desai
TI  - Human development in India:  : challenges for a society in transition
SN  - 9780198065128
U1  - 303.0945 DES 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Oxford ; New York 
PB  - : Oxford University Press
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Social change -- India
KW  - India -- Social conditions -- 1947-
N1  - 	Income, poverty, and inequality --
Agriculture --
Employment --
Household assets and amenities --
Education --
Health and medical care --
Child well-being --
Well-being of the older population --
gender and family dynamics --
Social integration and exclusion --
Villages in a global world --
Social safety nets in India --
Appendix I : IHDS : the design --
Appendix II : chapter organization and definition of variables
N2  - India's rapid economic expansion has raised global interest in its complex society and the continued growth that has touched the ordinary citizen. This report highlights how poverty and affluence intersect with age-old divisions of regional inequalities, gender, caste, and religion that have long structured human development in India. Together, these economic and social forces shape every facet of Indians'
ER  -