« Backward India »

To deal with the inequalities in the country, successive Indian governments have conceived a series of development plans. Planners have been faced with the necessity of indentifying the most urgent needs, and thus the districts that show the highest degree of “backwardness”. In this paper, we seek t...

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Main Author: François Durand-Dastès
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Pôle de Recherche pour l'Organisation et la diffusion de l'Information Géographique 2015-07-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/echogeo/14266
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description To deal with the inequalities in the country, successive Indian governments have conceived a series of development plans. Planners have been faced with the necessity of indentifying the most urgent needs, and thus the districts that show the highest degree of “backwardness”. In this paper, we seek to show which kind of problems are attached to that very notion, what can be learned from the spatial setting of backward districts. In the first place, we consider the variety of the pictures of this setting, and we discuss the possible explanations of that diversity. The importance of convergences is shown, and they are used as a base to build a new picture. A detailed examination of this picture leads to a discussion of aspects and factors of “backwardness”. The importance of multifactorial logics and long term path dependency is stressed.
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