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Abstract:
Explores development through justice, sustainability, and ethical values, integrating diverse perspectives on inequality, governance, livelihoods, ecology, technology, and knowledge. [Link to offsite document.]
Notes:
Collection of 14 essays from a lecture series hosted by the Bahá'í Chair for Studies in Development at Devi Ahilya University, Indore.

See a BWNS article about this book, which also provides a link to the PDF of the complete book [16 MB].


Dialogues on Development:

Rethinking Development for a Just and Sustainable Future

Arash Fazli, editor
Amitabh Kundu, editor

290 pages

New Delhi: Manak Publications Pvt. Ltd., 2026

About: As the world confronts climate instability, widening inequalities, and deep social fractures, dominant models of development—shaped by extractive growth and technocratic fixes—are proving insufficient. Dialogues on Development: Rethinking Development for a Just and Sustainable Future brings together scholars, practitioners, and thought leaders who argue that genuine progress requires a profound moral reorientation of development itself.

Drawing on diverse fields—economic policy, labour rights, cooperatives, water governance, youth leadership, pastoralism, crafts, agroecology, biodiversity, and technology—the essays expose the limits of fragmented, short-term approaches. They highlight alternatives rooted in long-term thinking, participatory governance, and a willingness to draw upon diverse ways of knowing, alongside an ethical understanding of human dignity, justice, and interdependence.

Emerging from a lecture series organized by the Bahá’í Chair for Studies in Development at Devi Ahilya University, this volume invites readers to see development not merely as a technical project but as a moral and spiritual undertaking aimed at building just, sustainable, and flourishing societies for all. [from https://bahaichairdavv.org/research]

Click to download: bahaichairdavv.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Dialogues-on-Development-Final.pdf [16 MB].

Contents

1. Introduction
    Arash Fazli and Amitabh Kundu

2. Cultivating Durational Ethics in Development Practice
    Holly Elisabeth Hanson

3. The Problem of Poverty and Inequality
    Augusto Lopez-Claros

4. Addressing Institutionalized Inequalities in India:Labour Rights and Labour Codes
    Ritu Dewan

5. ‘Conjugated Oppression’: Social and Political Economy of Women’s Work in the Informal Sector
    Sudeshna Sengupta

6. Towards Human Endurance: Cooperatives as Institutions of the Future
    H.S. Shylendra

7. Community Management of the Commons in the Context of Water Governance
    K. J. Joy

8. Are Leaders Born or Made? Creating Spaces that Foster Youth Leadership and Social Change
    Ashraf Patel and Arjun Shekhar

9. Glory Days, Last Gasp or Somewhere in Between: Pastoralism in the North-Western Himalaya
    Aniruddh Sheth and Vasant Saberwal

10. Crafts, Clusters and Institutional Innovation: Thoughts for Policy
    Keshab Das

11. Communitarian Ecosystem Restoration: A Timeless Gift from Nature-Worshipping Bhil Adivasis
    Rahul Banerjee

12. Can We Feed 10+ Billion People Sustainably?
    Paul Hanley

13. Anthropogenic Expansion of Biodiversity and its Erosion by Agricultural Development
    Debal Deb

14. Technology and Ethics for Sustainable Development: Reflections of a Textile Technologist
    Mangesh D. Teli

15. Beyond the Dynamic Knowledge, Diminishing Languages and Destructive Development
    G.N. Devy

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