Articles by Rowena Robinson

Making Sense of Conflict Rowena Robinson Social Conflict edited by N Jayaram and Satish Saberwal; Oxford University Press,
SOCIAL CONFLICT edited by Jayaram and Saberwal is a welcome addition to the series, Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology, whose general editor is T N Madan. Jayaram and Saberwal remind us in their introduction that sociology must confront conflict. For a long time the perspective on conflict in the social sciences tended to have very little realism about it. The early preoccupation with order in the social sciences tended to locate conflict negatively, as being incompatible with structure, temporary and aberrant. However, conflict clearly needs to be recognised and grappled with empirically and theoretically. Discourses on modernity also tended to see conflict

Rowena Robinson Caste as Woman by Vrinda Nabar; Penguin Books, New Delhi, 1995; pp 221
performance in agriculture and industry, Bangalore-centred urbanisation and persistent regional disparities with Hyderabad-Karnataka seriously lagging behind in most fields, VV contains a good discussion of these problems. It is the quest for growth rather for quick and easy growth which tempts the policy-maker to turn to the market and, even, to retreat on the front of agrarian and institutional reforms in the hope of achieving accelerated and broad-based growth. But these are tentative moves and there could be a phase of vacillation before a clear policy stance emerges.

the government of India would continue and that the next periodic report would go some way towards allaying the concerns voiced by the committee.