Subject(s): Poverty -- Unemployment -- Economic history -- Regional disparities -- Human services -- Rural conditions -- Rural development -- Social planning -- Social policy -- Indexing human development in India- indicators, scaling and composition, rural non-farm employment and poverty impact, dichotomy or continuum- analysis of impact of urban centers on their periphery, determinants of unemployment, determinants of household expenditure on education, private schooling in rural India, child schooling and child work -- Births, infants and children- econometric portrait of women and children in India, reciprocity between female education and fertility in India, health status and curative care in rural India, choosing between private, public and no care, maternal mortality in India, maternal health care utilization, health care expenditure, human development differentials among social groups, earning and education among social groups, case for empowerment of Muslims, differential returns to scheduled castes in UP