Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Development Challenge of India -- Chapter 3: Reexamining the Idea of Development -- Chapter 4: Unequal inequalities in India in the post-reform period -- Chapter 5: Growth, Inequality and Labour Force Participation -- Chapter 6: Transformation of the Idea of Inequality: Challenges of Growth with Justice -- Chapter 7: Contemporary Capitalism and the Future of Work -- Chapter 8: Transformation of Rural Households in Economic Activities and Employment -- Chapter 9: The Challenge of Decent Employment in Uttar Pradesh -- Chapter 10: Skill Inequality among Social Groups in India: What are the Evidences from Regional Analysis in Uttar Pradesh? -- Chapter 11: Does Social Identity Define India's Informal Manufacturing Sector? -- Chapter 12: Rural Labour Market in the Era of Employment Guarantee Scheme: Exploring Impact of MGNREGS on Wages -- Chapter 13: Beyond the Agrarian Question: The Centrality of Labour and Employment in India's Developmental Question -- Chapter 14: Failing Agriculture and Frazzled Farmers: The Inside Story of India's Most Populous States- UP & Maharashtra -- Chapter 15: Labour Mobility as Capability Expansion -- Chapter 16: Migrating to the Roads in the Cities in Uttar Pradesh: Some Reflections -- Chapter 17: Mapping of Migrants based on Caste, Origin and Destination: An insight into the Sugarcane Cutter Migrants in Maharashtra -- Chapter 18: Internal Migration and Inclusive Development: Insights from the Field.

This book revisits some of the persisting challenges of development of India, which remain unresolved even after twenty-five years of economic reforms and almost fifteen years of high growth rate. These include defining purpose of development, inequality, labour, work, unemployment, agrarian distress and migration. The book questions the overemphasis on growth to the extent of neglecting basic issues of development. With a number of contributions re-imagining development and its political economy, the book discusses above mentioned issues in light of new data and more recent conceptions of the issues. The contributors of this volume are eminent researchers in their respective field. Presenting primary as well as secondary data, the book considers the latest advances and research and also addresses new challenges like the global reorganization of production and the consequences for labour and the world of work, along with skills question. World of work has received detailed investigation in this book. This is a timely addition in existing literature especially in context of pandemic and lockdown. Informality and un/employment question is addressed in this context. Relationship among poverty, inequality and growth is examined in light of newer understanding. Agrarian distress is looked in a broader context. A number of papers are examining migration question by expanding coverage of migration and including labour mobility as apart of migration debate. The present crisis of migrant labour and absence of social security for these workers is also discussed. This book is primarily intended for those interested in recent advances on some of the basic aspects of development, like poverty, inequality, informality, word of work, migration and labour mobility. It is also useful for researchers, policy makers, journalists and civil society organizations working on these issues.