Emerging Rural Leadership Among Scheduled Castes/Ajit Singh Tomar. New
Delhi, Mohit Pub., 2008, x, 228 p., tables, ISBN 81-7445-428-7.
Emerging Rural Leadership Among Scheduled Castes/Ajit Singh Tomar. New
Delhi, Mohit Pub., 2008, x, 228 p., tables, ISBN 81-7445-428-7.
Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Review of literature. 3. Research design of the study. 4. The villages and their Panchayats. 5. Socio-economic background of scheduled caste leaders. 6. Emerging scheduled caste leadership. 7. Role of scheduled caste leaders in the Ambedkar villages. 8. Inter-intra caste relation and association of scheduled caste leaders and development of the Ambedkar villages. 9. Findings. Summary. Bibliography. Index.
"The quality of leadership is a vital factor affecting the development of a nation. Many sociologists have evolved concepts like dominant caste, key persons, elites for the study of the leadership at grass root level. The significance of studies of leadership have come about on account of planned development in Indian society. For this purpose statutory village Panchayats were entered in the Directive principles of state policy.
In this study, the author focused on the emerging leadership and style within scheduled castes and rural development in the Ambedkar villages. Whether and how far, the new leadership developed under 73rd amendment of Panchayati Raj is qualitatively different from the old leadership and whether, it deploys in different modes for mobilizing the villages support for rural development. It would be helpful to the students, social workers, planners and politicians. It develops an in sight for the rural people and those people who have interest in rural social structure." (jacket)