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The Banyan Tree: Volume II - Bringing Change

Table of Contents

Sahaj
Medical Mission Sisters
Preface
About The Contributors
Copyright Acknowledgements

Appropriate Nutrition : Its Role In Health

Summary
Hunger as a Social Problem
Nutrition and the Food System
Nutrition and Development Projects
The Green Revolution and Nutrition
Distribution of Malnutrition in India
Some other Issues in Food and Nutrition
A Nutritional Utopia
Appendix 1 : Opportunities for Action
Appendix 2 : Natural Farming
Appendix 3 : Rice in Abundance
Appendix 4 : Some Useful Nutritional Information
Appendix 5 : The Choice Before Us
Appendix 6 : Ayurvedic Perspective and Food
Questions
Further Reading

A Future Perspective On Creative Health Nonviolent Action

Introduction
Our Dream of Utopia
The Role of Voluntary Agencies In Bringing Social Change
What is Nonviolence
Transformend Nonconformists
Definition and Principles of Nonviolent Action
Nonviolence In History
Frontier Gandhi : Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Violence Vs. Nonviolent Action
Appendix 1 : Antidotes for Fear
Appendix 2 : Methods of Nonviolent Intervention
Appendix 3 : Eleven Vows of Mahatma Gandhi
Appendix 4 : Profiles of Contemporary Gandhians

  1. My Search For Political Relevance And Gandhiji
  2. Baba Amte : Warrior of Peace and Nonviolent Action

Appendix 5 : Pre-requisties for Satyagraha
Questions
Further Reading

Social Analysis For Holistic Health
Introduction

Section I

  • Approaches To Social Analysis
  • What is Social Analysis
  • Difficulties of Social Analysis
  • Three Basic Principles of Social Analysis
  • Methods of Social Analysis

Section II

  • History of Human Society
  • Primitive, Slave-Owning and Feudal Society
  • Karl Marx and Conflict Sociology

Appendix 1 : Methodology of a Social Analysis
Appendix 2 : Some Other Methods of Social Analysis
Questions
Further Reading

Organization Development And Social Change

Introduction
Why OD in Health Care ?
Health Care System Applications
OD in Health Care : Some Comments
Appendix 2 : Conditions For Failure and Success in Organization Development Efforts
Questions
Further Reading

Laws And Legal Aid For Social Action

Introduction

  • Equal Justice
  • The Mask Of Law And Order
  • Summary
  • Introduction

Section I:

  • The Basis And Framework Of The Legal System In India
  • The Constitution of India
  • The Three Arms of the Constitution : Legislature, Executive and Judiciary
  • Fundamental Rights
  • Directive Principles of State Policy
  • The Legal Machinery
  • Court structure in General
  • Family Courts
  • Lok Adalats

Section II:

  • Some Laws Relating To Oppressed Sections Of The Indian Population
  • Untouchability
  • Release and Rehabilitation of Bonded Labourers
  • Payment of Minimum Wages
  • Child Labour

Section III:

  • Law Relating To Women
  • Constitutional Rights of Women
  • Rights to Maintenance
  • Sati
  • Rape
  • Dowry

Section IV:

  • Laws Pertaining To Physical Health And Wellbeing
  • Medical Negligence
  • Environmental Protection
  • Law and Occupational Health

Section V:

  • Legal Aid To The Poor
  • Public Interest Litigation

Appendix 1 : Tinsei Ki Rani
Questions
Further Reading