Participatory Rural Appraisal: Methodology and Applications

by Neela Mukherjee

Overview

An epic is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation. Oral poetry may qualify as an epic, and Albert Lord and Mailman Parry have argued that classical epics were fundamentally an oral poetic form. Nonetheless, epics have been written down at least since Homer, and the works of Vyasa, Virgil, Dante Alighieri and John Milton would be unlikely to have survived without being written down. The first epics are known as primary, or original, epics. Indian epic poetry (Sanskrit : Itihasa; meaning history, lit. "so it happened") is the epic poetry written in the Indian subcontinent.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789354391729
Publisher:	Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd.
Publication date:	06/30/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Dr. (Mrs.) Neela Mukherjee is currently working as a Professor of Economics at the Lai Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie (Uttar Pradesh). In her pursuit of participatory development, Dr. Mukherjee has undertaken action-research, organised training courses in rural participatory methods and has directly conducted a large number of participatory sessions with villagers, in India and other developing countries. Some of her experiences have been described in this book. Her other professional interests relate to the political economy of greenhouse gases and multilateral negotiations for trade in services. The main thrust of analysis underlying her areas of interest is democratization of development process and empowerment of poor, implications of which are both in terms of empowerment of poor and deprived individuals and that of the poor countries of the South. Dr. Mukherjee has written extensively in her areas of interest and she has a number of papers and a few books to her credit.