Rural Tourism and Tribal Development
Contents: Preface. I. Rural tourism development: 1. Rural tourism: a new promise/Anjan Bhuyan. 2. Rural tourism: potential and prospects/Vivek Sharma and Neeta Anand. 3. Ecotourism and rural development/Binu R. and K. Sasikumar. 4. Ecotourism in India/Niranjan Das and H.J. Syiemlieh. 5. Ecotourism planning/Jagmohan. 6. Ecotourism: problems and prospects/Santosh Yadav. 7. Ecotourism and mountains/Usha Bande. 8. Ecotourism in India/Srikanta K. Panigrahi. 9. Ecotourism and Himalayas/M.S. Kohli. 10. Being stewards of land/Mandip Singh Soin. 11. Preserving and protecting nature/Maheshwar Rao. 12. Mountaineering, Trekking and adventure/M.S. Gill. 13. Nagadhiraj Himalaya: a review of the Indian Himalayan range/Harish Kapadia. 14. Sustainable mountain development/Gopi N. Ghosh. 15. Need to preserve marine ecology/Manohar Puri. 16. Pleasure of trekking/K.L. Noatay. 17. The tourism industry: your passport to a prosperous career/Suma Ramachandran. II. Tribal Development: 18. Tribal development: need to evolve people-oriented approach/T. Lakshmaiah. 19. Uplifting the scheduled tribes/Jaul Oram. 20. Tribal education in India/P.K. Mohanty. 21. Tribal development: planning and performance/Dilip Shah. 22. Rural development and tribal aspirations/K.S. Subramanian. 23. Tribal development during the Five Year Plans/Vinod Joseph. 24. Role of forests in tribal development/M. Soundarapandian. 25. Quality of life of scheduled castes and tribes in rural India/Gurupada Chakrabarty. 26. Credit system in tribal areas: need for re-orientation/K. Somasekhar and M. Bapuji. 27. Tribal women's participation in farm forestry/Prakash Kashwan. III. Gandhian thought for rural prosperity: 28. Gandhi and human rights/Sona Dixit and Arun Kumar Dixit. 29. Gandhiji's economic ideas remain relevant/Bharat Dogra. 30. Rural transformation: the Gandhian prescription/L.P. Singh. 31. Rural development: Gandhian view/Sawalia Bihari Verma. 32. Gandhi's eternal relevance/K.D. Gangrade. 33. Gandhi more relevant today/Nirmala Deshpande. 34. Gandhi belongs to the ages/K.K. Khullar. 35. Gandhi and rural reconstruction/K.K. Mukherjee. 36. Mahatma Gandhi and women's education/John Vergis Vilanilam. 37. Gandhi and the third world/S.C. Gangal. 38. Gandhian thoughts: a critique/N. Radhakrishnan. 39. Gandhi and corporate ethics/L.P. Singh. 40. Gandhi and the spinning wheel/J.V. Vilanilam. 41. Gandhi-the artist/K.K. Khullar. 42. Remembering the Mahatma/Mohit Chakrabarti. Index.
"Rural tourism compasses rural society, culture and beliefs in their original form. It covers all those aspects of travel whereby people learn about each other's ways of life and thought. It signifies the tourists' interest in the customs of the indigenous and exotic people. Rural tourism development is community-based, participatory and designed to improve the economic and social well-being of local villagers in addition to the concerned institutional and physical environment." (jacket)
