Acknowledgements
Introduction
Contributors
1. Mapping the Role of Thinkers in the Context of Ideological Trajectory of Social Justice in Bihar
Sudhanshu Kumar Jha
2. Bihar’s Tryst with Social Justice
Praveen Jha
3. Human Development in Bihar: Dissecting Issues and the Way Forward
Santosh Mehrotra and Rakesh Ranjan Kumar
4. Education and Social Justice in Bihar: Still an Achilles’ Heel?
Abhijit Ghosh and Bhaskar Majumder
5. An Empirical Case Study of Educational Experience of Musahar Children in Bihar
Anju Helen Bara and Sonu Prasad
6. Beyond Teacher Quality: Understanding the Moderating Role of Infrastructure in Student Learning Outcomes in Secondary Education
Amrita Singh and Sheo Rama
7. Health and Curative Health Care in Bihar: A Comparative Study
Subrata Mukherjee and Ashmita Gupta
8. Choice for Modern Contraception in Bihar: Can Affirmative Action Work?
Arijita Dutta and Rakhi Saha
9. Inter-District Variations in Utilisation of Maternal and Child Health Care Facilities in Bihar
Sweta Sharan
10. Labour Market Discrimination in the State of Bihar
Sankar Kumar Bhaumik
11. Gender and Social Discrimination in Employment and Earnings: An Empirical Analysis in Bihar
Panchanan Das and Sumita Biswas
12. Caste Inequality in Child Stunting in Bihar: A Violation of Justice
Neetu Choudhary
13. An Inquiry of Causes and Persistence of Poverty among Dalits in Bihar
Krishna Ram
14. Multidimensional Deprivations and Social Sector Expenditure in Bihar: A Critical Look
Santosh Verma and Tripti Kumari
15. Marginal Agriculture as Social Security: A Case for Facilitating Access to Land in Bihar
Harshita Bhasin and Anirban Dasgupta
16. Economic Growth and Social Justice: A Study with Reference to Agricultural Households in Bihar
Subhankar Mukherjee and Kranthi Nanduri
17. Access to Institutional Credit and Socio-economic Inequality: Implications for Social Justice in Rural Bihar
Avanindra Nath Thakur
18. Migration, Marginality and Development: The Case of Bihar
Avinash Kumar and Manish Kumar
19. COVID-19 as Social Crisis and Justice: Migrants from Bihar
Surya Bhushan, Aditi Thakur, Shankar Purbey, S M U Qadri and Urvashi Kaushik
20. Economic Empowerment of Women: A Review of the Jeevika Programme
Sohini Paul
21. The Path Towards Gender Mainstreaming Through Four Parameters of Development
S. Siddharth and Barna Ganguli
22. Reservation for Women in Bihar Police Force: A Note
Kanika Raj
23. Child Trafficking in Bihar: A Situational Analysis
Juhi Singh, Alok Aditya and Suresh Kumar
24. Trends and Determinants of Child Marriage in Bihar
Ashi Rooth Stuart
25. Outcome-Based Policymaking
Arunish Chawla
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