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   Bardhan PK, 1985, The Political Economy of Development in India, Basil Blackwell, Oxford :
   191-206.
   Sengupta N, 1997, ‘One step forward, two steps back’ in Rao, Maiti, Panda, Chaubey (eds) Fifty    Years of India’s Freedom, Indian Academy of Social Sciences, Allahabad : 87-100.

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Trivedi J M, 2003, ‘Human rights, violence and tribal women’ in Bharatiya Samajik Chintan, January : I, 4 : 44-46.
UNDP, 1998, Human Development Report 1998, OUP, New York : 65n.
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