CONTENTS
Preface.
1. Backgrounder.
-B. J. Deb
2. Development Dialogue.
-Amalesh Banerjee
3. Development and Underdevelopment of the North-East Region: Search for a Paradigm.
-A. C. Mahapatra
4. Development Discourses in Social Science Research in the North-Easttern Region.
-B. S. Butola
5. Globalisation vis-a-vis Regional Development: Challenges before the North-Eastern States.
-Asok Kumar Maiti
6. Globalisation and North-East India: Opportunities and Challenges for the Twenty-first Century.
-J. B. Ganguly
7. Civil Society under Globalisation: A Case Study on ''Assam Rural Infrastructure and Agriculture Services Project''.
-Asok Kumar Ray
8. Integrated Management of Natural Resources of North-East India for Sustainable Development in the 21st Century.
-A. K. Mishra
9. North-East States: Considerations for Determining Priorities in Social Science Research.
-T. B. Lahiri
10. Formation of the Appropriate Development Paradigm of North-East India.
-N. N. Bhattacharya
11. Perspective of Development.
-Sanjib Kumar Barkakoti
12. Shifting Cultivation in North-East India: an Approach Towards Control.
-D. N. Borthakur
13. Human Development in North-East India.
-R. P. Bhattacharjee and N. Upadhaya
14. Population Growth and Environmental Crisis in North-East India: Problems and Remedies.
-P. C. Dutta
15. Population Growth and Demographic Balance in the North-East in the Threshold of the New Millenium.
-Kailash Sarma
16. Non-Govermental Organisations and Social Development: A Critique.
-B. J. Deb
17. Towards a Sensible Participation of People.
-D. N. Chakravarty
18. Enlisting People's Participation in Soil Conservation and Watershed Management Programs in the North-Eastern Region.
-K. K. Sataphaty