Subject(s): Economic history -- Human capital -- Manpower policy -- Politics and government -- Rural development. -- Human development in India : Human development as a duty of the state, Indian situation, India's human development in international perspective -- Behavioral tendencies in state functioning and management of programs : Adverse effect on people's self esteem, state functioning in practice, systemic and behavioral tendencies, behavioral inhabitations in program implementation -- Government bureaucracy and human development : Some historical antecedents of political processes and administrative behavior, administrative system, historical antecedents of systemic behavior, social theorizing and learning of images and self concepts, impact of historical factors an political culture on functioning of administration -- Goals of human development- need for structural and behavioral changes : Social mobilization and state interventions- minimizing the inhabiting and maximizing the facilitative forces -- Accelerating human development the need for active state interventions : Dysfunctional administration and citizen's alienation, structural adjustment and human development, changing social and political scene, ideological assault on stat's democratic and development role, lessons from the East Asian tigers, activity the state for human development -- public activism for human development : State behavior on ground- public as the prime mover, some historical factors in Kerala model, emerging mass movements- towards a qualitative psychological change, Dalit and non brahmin movements, political activism for human development, alternative development strategy needed -- Democratization and human development- psychological strategy for alternative action : United front government, role of public activism, alternative development strategy, challenging people for alternative development - composite psychological strategy