Subject(s): Economic history -- Social conditions -- Economic conditions -- Social policy -- Development for what and whom and whose cost- reflections on development of tribes in India, population and development- critical issues, food security- critical issues and perspectives, dynamics of use and abuse of water- critical appraisal, poverty eradication in India- core issues and policy implications, school education of marginalized- critical study of Tharu tribals education in west Champaran (Bihar), marginalized protest- environmental movements as a critique of dominant development discourse