Subject(s): REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC REFORM, LIVING CONDITIONS, POVERTY, ECONOMETRIC MODELS, POPULATION TRENDS -- Radical needs and moderate reforms : Regional diversities and contrasts, intrinsic value and instrumental role of human capabilities, counterproductive regulations and necessary reforms, India and China, India's educational backwardness and lessons of Kerala, economic handicap of educational backwardness, role of pre-reform China in its post reform success, economic development through social opportunity -- Living conditions in Uttar Pradesh, schooling in Uttar Pradesh, public policy and schooling decisions -- Agrarian politics and rural development in west Bengal : Rural areas, political economy of reform program, impact of livelihood -- Kerala's development achievements : Kerala's health achievements, literacy in Kerala, aspects of caste and gender relations in Kerala -- Mortality, fertility and gender bias in India - district level analysis