Tribal Administration and Development (With Ethnographic Profiles of Selected Tribes)

by Shashishekhar Gopal Deogaonkar

Overview

Gopal Krishna Gokhale was one of the pioneers of the Indian national movement. Ife was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress. Gokhale gave voice to the aspirations of millions of Indians who were looking for freedom from the British rule. Gandhi,ji considered him as his political guru. Apart from being a political leader, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, was also as social reformer. He founded the" servants of India Society"-2norganization dedicated to the cause of common people. Gopal Krishna Gokhale's contribution to the making of Indian nation is invaluable. Along with other contemporary leaders like Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Dadabhai Naoroji, Bipin Chandra Pal, Lala Lajpat Rai and Annie Besant, Gokhale fought for decades to obtain greater political representation and power over public affairs for common Indians. The books contain the life and works of Gokhale, a prominent leader of freedom struggle and politician of repute. Thoughts of gokhale on various subjects are also included.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789354395185
Publisher:	Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd.
Publication date:	06/30/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	485 KB

About the Author

Dr. S.G. Deogaonkar is a scholar of repute and his specialisation is Political and Social Anthropology, Tribal Development and Constitutional Law. He has been associated with developmental activities in tribal areas and completed many research projects based on field-research. He has participated and presented papers at many State and National level conferences including the Xth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. He was a Member on the District Planning and Development Council of the Chandrapur district and was Chancellor's Nominee on the Nagpur University Senate. Dr. Deogaonkar was a Member-Participant of the Socio-Economic Groups on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes for formulation of the Eighth Five-Year Plan Schemes constituted under the Backward Classes Division of the Planning Commission. At present he is a Non-official Member on the Governing Body of the tribal Research and Training Institute of the Maharashtra State at Pune. He is also a Member of the School Council of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University at Nasik. Dr. Deogaonkar has completed many post-doctoral research projects for the U.G.C and ICSSR and was a National (post-doctoral) Research Fellow in Tribal Development of the Ministry of Welfare Government of India. He has published many works which include, Administration for Rural Development in India, The Madia of Bhamragad, Problems of Development of Tribal Areas; The Hill Korwa; The Korku Tribals; The Banjara; Political Anthropology, Tribal Exploitation; Tribal Development Plans etc. He has also contributed four ethnographic notes to the 'People of India' compendium Published by the Anthropological Survey of India. Dr. Deogaonkar is working as Head, Department of Political Science at the Anand Niketan College, Warora (Maharashtra).