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The Volumes Development Studies cover an extensive range of critical areas that have one common theme of questioning the accepted parameters of development. An attempt has been made to accommodate conflicting points of view that would facilitate the readers to arrive at their own understanding of the problem under focus of study. Contributors to the Volumes have tried to argue the different choices of development that are necessarily context-bound and issue-driven in approach. Choices entail alternatives from among a range of viable options that tend to determine and influence development paradigms—from the role of the State in an increasingly borderless world—to use of Information Communication Technology to represent local knowledge. Other key development issues taken up include developing a unified framework for understanding the depth and duration of poverty; John Stuart Mill’s idea of progress; Amartya Sen’s capability approach; Gandhian values for social transformation; globalization and urban governance; and effectiveness of Public Distribution System as a food security measure. The Volumes will be of interest to social and natural scientists, civil servants, policymakers, environmentalists, economists, ecologists, civil society organizations, think tanks, non-government organizations and development consultants. About Author: Robin Ghosh is a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia (UWA). Before migrating to Australia he taught at the University of Delhi and Visva-Bharati at Santiniketan in India. A prolific writer, he has published a number of books and written many articles for journals of repute. In comparatively recent years, he has written introduction to Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and J.M. Keynes’s The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money both of which were published by Atlantic Publishers and Distributors (P) Ltd., New Delhi. K.R. Gupta is a well known Economist. He has published over a dozen of books and more than hundred papers in reputed journals, being published in India and abroad. He had been teaching postgraduate classes and guiding research for about two decades in the University of Jammu and Kurukshetra University. He has also worked as an Economist in private as well as in public sector. His last assignment was as Economic Advisor to the Modi Enterprises. Prasenjit Maiti is a political sociologist. He earlier taught and researched at the University of Burdwan during 1995-2002 and was on secondment at the Institute of Federalism of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, as a Doctoral Fellow. He later joined Consulting Engineering Services as a Sociologist. His first book Problems of Governance in India was published in 2002 while his next work Development Discourses was brought out in 2005. Both of his works have received overwhelming response.