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SYLLABUS
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Trimester -1
Course Code and Course RDM 501: Rural Society, Culture & Polity
Name
Course Teacher(s) Dr Sonal Mobar Roy and Dr R R Prasad
Sessions No./Credit 30/3 credits
Course Objective and Course 1. To introduce students to the underpinnings of rural
Outline society, and to engage them in questioning existing
prejudices and stereotypes about social groups, their
values and practices.
2. To appreciate and critically engage with different
perspectives on understanding society
3. To learn basic concepts of class, caste, gender and
ethnicity and their contexts in India.
4. To learn about social aspects of development challenges in
India in respect of dalits, tribes, women and minorities,
particularly Muslims in India.
5. To critically engage into contemporary debates on Indian
rural society
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India in Patrilineal and Matrilineal Societies
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University, New Delhi SIG WORKING PAPER
2013/1 January 2013
Inclusive Growth: redistribution, access, participation
Arjan de Haan, IDRC, Canada Draft 1 May 2017
Simon Kuznets (1995). Economic growth and income
Inequality, American economic review, 65, 1-28.
Korten, D. (1983). Social development, Puuting the
People First in Buruecracy and the Poor:Closing the
gap.
UNDP reports
Poverty Index report
ASER report
Anand S And Sen A (1996). Sustainable human
Development: Concepts and priorities, UNDP.
Sen A K (1973) Poverty, Inequality, Unemployment:
Some conceptual issues in Measurement, EPW
S Srinivasa Rao (2002). Dalits in Education and
workforce, EPW.
Disability and Development: A contribution to
promoting the interests of persons
with disabilities in German Development Cooperation
-Policy Paper by Anja Fischer (GTZ), Katja Franke
(GTZ), Dr. Matthias Rompel (GTZ), 2006
Inclusive education in India: Interpretation,
Implementation and Issues, Katharine G Lindsay
(2007).
Report of national commission for Religious and
Linguistic minorities (2007)
Empowerment of rural women: the role of gender-
responsive governance and institutions-UN ESC,
2011
Social Capital: Implications for Development Theory,
Research, and Policy-Michael Woolcock and Deepa
Narayan, Final version submitted to the World Bank
Research Observer, 15(2), 2000 December
Democratic Potentials in Cultural Politics: Caste
Based Reservations and the Issues of Citizenship-
Dipankar Gupta
Beteille, Andre 1991 Distributive Justice and
Institutional Well Being, Economic and Political
Weekly, (Annual Number), vol. 26, pp. 591-600.
School Participation in Rural India by Jean Drze
Centre for Development Economics (Delhi School of
Economics) & Geeta Gandhi Kingdon, Institute for
Economics and Statistics (University of Oxford)
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Measuring Sustainable Development: Theory and
Application PARTHA DASGUPTA, Asian
Development Review, vol. 24, no. 1, 2007
Human development, poverty, health & nutrition
situation in India-G.M. Antony & A. Laxmaiah,
Indian J Med Res 128, August 2008, pp 198-205
Bonding and Bridging: Understanding the
Relationship between Social Capital and Civic
Action by Larissa Larsen, Sharon L. Harlan, Bob
Bolin,Edward J. Hackett, Diane Hope, Andrew Kirby,
Amy Nelson, Tom R. Rex, & Shaphard Wolf, Journal
of Planning Education and Research 24:64-77, 2004
Scaling Up Community-Driven Development: A
Synthesis Of Experience By Stuart Gillespie,
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004
Dalit Situation in India by Mukul Sharma
MDG and dalits, NACDOR status report, 2004
People With Disabilities In India: From Commitments
To Outcomes. The World Bank , May 2007
Rights of the Disabled by Anuradha Mohit, Meera
Pillai, Pratiti Rungta, NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS
COMMISSION, 2006
XEROX material wherever necessary would be
provided to the students.
PPTs would be shared with students after the session.
The reading would be updated as the classes progress.
*The tutorials would cover critically analyzing the readings given, books, and for conducting
quizzes.
REFERENCES:
Movies:
- Hiwre Bazaar
- Jadugoda-The Black Magic
- Social Capital
- Story of stuff
- The Wives
- TED talks-Bunker Roy
Books:
- Social Problems in India-Ram Ahuja
- Rural society in India-K L Sharma
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- Everybody loves a Good Drought-P Sainath
- Tribal Culture of India: Vidyarthi & Rai
- Community Mobilisation: R R Prasad
- Behind Mud Walls: W H Wiser
- Village India: A R Desai
- Poor Economics: Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Dufflo
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Course Code and Course RDM 502: Development Theories and
Name
Practices
Course Teacher(s) Dr. Kailash Sarap and Dr. Sucharita Pujari,
Course Objective and Course To provide conceptual and empirical framework for
Outline understanding the changing development scenario scenario
with Indian and other developing countries
PART -I
I DEVELOPMENT - AN OVERVIEW
II THEORIES OF DEVELOPMENT
V. Development in Practices
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Part II -Gender and Development Part II
Liberal
Radical
Marxist
Socialist
Gender Issues in Development
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Empowerment and Status of Women
Pedagogy Lectures,
Short film screenings, Review of documentaries
Group work, Reading and analysing statistical
reports, Policy recommendations.
Case Studies , Presentations and Discussions
(documenting gendered inequalities through case
studies and surveys)
Emphasis will be on Participatory Approaches and
Experiential Learning.
Text Book(s)
Chapters
2. Elinor Ostrom: Governing the Commons: The Evolution of
Articles Institutions for Collective Action, Cambridge University
Press, 1990.
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Cases
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womens struggle for electoral representation.
Mumbai: RCWS
16. National Policy for Empowerment of Women , 2016
India Human Development Reports
17. Agarwal Bina (2016) GENDER CHALLENGES A
three volume compendium of selected papers (Oxford
University Press)
18. Miller, Barbara, D. 1981. The Endangered Sex.
Cornell University Press , cornell
19. Batliwala, S. and Dhanraj, D. 2007 Gender myths
that instrumentalize women: a view from the Indian
front line. In A. Cornwall, E. Harrison, A.
Whitehead,Feminisms in Development:
Contradictions, contestations and challenges. London:
Zed Books.
20. Subramanian, R. 2007 Making sense of gender in
shifting institutional contexts: some reflections on
gender mainstreaming. In A. Cornwall, E. Harrison,
A.
21. Whitehead Feminisms in Development:
Contradictions, contestations and challenges.
London: Zed Books.
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Course Code and Course RDM 504- Rural Organisation and
Name
Governance (ROG)- Part I
Course Objective and Course To make the students understand the concept of
Outline& Session Plan Democratic Decentralisation & Devolution
To facilitate the students to gain understanding on
Evolution & Structure Panchayati Raj Institutions,
Provisions of PESA Act, 1996 and Decentralised
Governance in North-eastern states
To sensitize the students to appreciate the principles
of transparency and accountability
To enable the students understand the concept of
social audit and equip them to apply it to the
development sector
Course content
Democracy
Representation and Participation
Decentralisation
Devolution
Evolution, Structure & Functions of Panchayati Raj
Institutions (2 Sessions)
Evolution of PRIs in India
Current status of Panchayats
Participation at Village level: Gram Sabha, Ward
Sabha
Functions of PRIs
Provisions of PESA Act, 1996 & Decentralised Governance
in North-eastern States (2 Sessions)
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& Village Councils
Citizens Charter
Corruption Surveys
Ombudsmen
Citizen Juries
Recall of Parliamentarians)
Reading Material - Roadmap for the Panchayati Raj (2011 - 2017): An all
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Notes India Perspective
Decentralisation in India: Challenges & Opportunities
Text Book(s) Decentralisation in India: Poverty, Politics &
Chapters Panchayati Raj, ODI Working Paper, 2003
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Course Code and Course
Name
RDM 505: Financial Accounting
Course Teacher(s) Dr. A.Patrick, Reader,
Course Outline:
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book are given
Unit IV No of Sessions 8
UNIT- V: 2 sessions
Unit-VI : 6 sessions
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PPTs Management Accounting, Prentice-Hall;
6) Rawat D.S: Accounting Standards, Taxmann;
Videos 7) Rustagi R.P: Management Accounting, Galgotia;
8) Ghosh T.P: Accounting Standards and Corporate
Accounting Practices, Taxmann;Ronald W. Hilton:
ManagerialAccounting, TMH;
9) BelverdE.Needles, Jr: Financial Accounting, Houghton
Mifflin Company, USA.
Cost Accouting:
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Course Objective and Course -To enable the students to understand and apply quantitative
Outline and qualitative techniques in designing and implementing the
rural development projects.
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Project proposal: Developing a proposal, design,
structure Assignment based
Basics in SPSS
- Group discussion
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