Sociology and Politics of Development retiring a possible world and a

a possible world and a precisification -- need to be revised

communal strife

from the immediate

First published in 1991 this text provides an incisive analysis of theories concerning the origins of economic inequality between nations

Sociology and Politics of Development retiring a possible world and aOriginally published in 1980, this work answers the crucial question of how social change should be guided in the developing countries. Professor Varma begins by posing the problems of the general scope of modernization and the general criteria used in the modernization process. He examines carefully some of the models that have been used for this purpose in the past, providing extensive summaries of the views on modernization of theorists in various