Decentralised Governance, Regional Development And Women Empowerment

Year:2013,Binding:Hardcover,Pages:284,Language:English, Description:- , About The Author:- Dr. (Mrs.) Annpurna Nautiyal is a Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science, HNB Garhwal University Srinagar, Garhwal, Uttarakhand. Presently she is also the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Coordinator of the UGC-SAP DRS programme sponsored by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi. She is also the Chairperson of the University Women Cell. She was a Fulbright visiting professor at the Department of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University, Fairfax Virginia in 2006. Although, her basic area of interest is international relations, but she also has a keen interest in the regional and national issues, and in particular the problem of women empowerment in the hill areas of Uttarakhand. Professor Nautiyal has published several articles in reputed journals and authored/ edited five books which include: The Role of Henry Kissinger in World Politics (1987), India in the New World Order (1995) Uttarakhand in Turmoil (1996) Fifty Years of Human Rights: Expectations and Challenges (2002) and Challenges to India's Foreign Policy in the New Era (2006) Dr. Himanshu Bourai (MS) (b.1960), M.A.,M.Phil, Ph.D. from Rajasthan University, Jaipur, is currently professor in Political Science at Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Srinagar (Uttarakhand). She has participated in many social welfare study activities. Her area of interest is Gandhian thought and women empowerment but she is a keen watcher of regional issues also. She has a number of research papers to her credit in various National and International Journals. Dr. Bourai has authored and edited five books entitled Gandhi and Modern Indian Liberals in English, Gandhian Philosophy and New World Order, Global Poverty, Terrorism and Peace, Women Participation in Natural Resource Management, Gandhi:Udarvadi Virasat (in Hindi). Prof. Bourai is former President of Indian Society of Gandhian Studies (2004 and 2005) and at present General Secretary of the PUCL Uttarakhand., Contents:- Contents, Preface 7, Introduction 11, List of Contributors 37, 1. Framing the Discourse on Decentralised Governance, and Women