Gender Asymmetry Made Easy

Rowena Robinson Caste as Woman by Vrinda Nabar; Penguin Books, New Delhi, 1995; pp 221
performance in agriculture and industry, Bangalore-centred urbanisation and persistent regional disparities with Hyderabad-Karnataka seriously lagging behind in most fields, VV contains a good discussion of these problems. It is the quest for growth rather for quick and easy growth which tempts the policy-maker to turn to the market and, even, to retreat on the front of agrarian and institutional reforms in the hope of achieving accelerated and broad-based growth. But these are tentative moves and there could be a phase of vacillation before a clear policy stance emerges.