Society, Economy and Development: Challenges and Opportunities

India is a developing country whose socio-economic status is variable due to the socio-cultural, geographical and regional diversity. After seven decades of independence, India has made herself socially and economically self-reliant and put herself on the Global map. This socio-economic development of India did not happen in a day. It took place through various changes and challenges such as social projects and plans, social conflicts, social process and interactions, Industrialization, International trade, investments from Multinational Corporations etc. Some of these developments have been done by India’s own using independent technologies and investments and rest have been driven by foreign investments through globalization. However, it must be acknowledged that this progress or development has not taken place equally throughout India, due to cultural pluralism and diversity, geographical diversity, miscellaneous social problems, unequal distribution of mineral resources, administrative and political liabilities, different types and stages of development can be observed in different parts of India. So, the main purpose of this book is to discuss Indian society and economy as well as the nature and pace of development. Weight 0.500 Gm. Year 2023 Pages 388 Edition Hard Bound Author Name Dr. Arindam Basak, Sk. Kamruzzaman & Pranoy Dey About the Authors Dr. Arindam Basak is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Applied Geography, University of North Bengal. He completed his education from Presidency College (B.Sc.), Jawaharlal Nehru University (M.A, M.Phil.) and University of North Bengal (Ph.D.). Between the years 2007 and 2009, he was an Assistant Professor in Geography at Vivekananda College in Madhyamgram before starting his career at the University of North Bengal. His area of interest is Regional Planning, Urban Geography, Population Geography and GIS. He is actually involved in teaching and research for more than 14 years. He has already published a few books, including Urbanization, Regionalization and Urban Characteristics in India (1981-2001), LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Germany, ISBN 978-3-659- 21652-7, 2012, Contemporary Issues of Urbanization in North Bengal, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing (2020-09-05), ISBN No. 978- 620-2-80140-9. Sk. Kamruzzaman done M.A and B.Ed. from Kalyani University and recently done Ph.D. course work from Raiganj university. Currently he is working as Assistant Professor in Sociology since 2014 at Birpara College, Alipurduar, West Bengal. He has published one edited book name Changing Scenario of Society and Culture in The Context of Globalisation and also published eleven chapter in book in various edited books. Pranoy Dey is currently working as Assistant Professor in Geography at Birpara College, Alipurduar, West Bengal since 2020. He has done his B.A from Siliguri College, M.A degree in Geography and Applied Geography from University of North Bengal and recently working as Research Scholar at same university. His area of interest is Population Geography, Social Geography and Urban Geography. He has participated and presented papers in various national & international conference, workshop, webinars and also contributed various chapters in various edited volume books.