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- Title
Macro-categories of Development and Micro-level Realities : A Case Study of Lodhas in Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal.
- Authors
PANDA, SANTANU; GUHA, ABHIJIT
- Abstract
Planners and policymakers make development policies from a macro perspective and shape uniform policies for wide regions and large populations. Planning for 'backward areas', 'backward communities', and 'primitive tribal ground are the key phrases of the planners. Anthropological studies on the other hand reveal sociocultural variations within regions and populations and sometime within single ethnic groups. How the approach of the policymakers and the anthropological findings can be combined? This article makes a preliminary attempt to contextualize the problem of combining macro-level policies with micro-level data collected through fieldwork among the Lodhas of three administrative blocks of Paschim(west) Medinipur district by looking into the variations in the utilization of development inputs in a comparative framework. The findings of the study show that successful utilisation of development inputs depend on a number of physical, economic, social and political factors. Finally, some recommendations are advanced for the better implementation of macro-level policies by taking into account the micro-level variations.
- Subjects
INDIA; LODHA (Indic people); ANTHROPOLOGICAL research; ETHNOLOGY research; ETHNIC groups; ETHNICITY
- Publication
Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society, 2013, Vol 48, Issue 3, p245
- ISSN
0019-4387
- Publication type
Article