K B Saxena
Biographic Data
| ID | 4292650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K B Saxena |
| GIVEN NAMES | K B |
| FAMILY NAME | Saxena |
| SIGNATURE | SAXENA K B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dalit Entrepreneurship in Public Policy
This paper critically examines the performance of key public policy schemes—MUDRA, Stand-Up India, the SC Venture Capital Fund, and the 4% Public Procurement Policy—aimed at fostering Dalit and Adivasi entrepreneurship in India. Despite their ambitious mandates, empirical evidence reveals that SC-ST entrepreneurs remain severely underrepresented in high-value credit categories and government procurement contracts. Drawing on secondary data, field…
The Forest (Conservation) Amendment Act 2023
In order to check the increasing diversion of forest land for non-forest purposes, the Government of India enacted the Forest Conservation Act (FCA) 1980 which mandated the central government’s prior approval for any such diversions. This Act applied to land notified as forest under the Indian Forest Act 1927 or any other law, and the forest under the control of the forest department. The Supreme Court order in Godavarman Case (1996) expanded the…
Disappearing Ethics in Contemporary Governance
Amitabh Rajan, Ethical Dimensions of Administrative Power, SAGE Publications, 2021, 228 pp., ₹550. ISBN 9789391370008 (Paperback)
Universalising Healthcare in India
Universalising Healthcare in India
Comments on ‘Draft of the Policies for Great Andamanese and Sentinelese’ Published in journal of Anthropological Survey of India , 69(1), 165–176
Swaraj and the Reluctant State
Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act and Rules
Compensatory afforestation means the afforestation of plantations of an equivalent area of non-forest land or of double the area of degraded notified forest to compensate for the loss of forests diverted for development activities. The user of this diverted forest is required to pay its ‘net present value’ to the forest department for this purpose. On the direction of the Supreme Court, a law has been enacted and rules framed to manage the money …
Legislature Proposes, Judiciary Disposes
The increasing ferocity and frequency of violence against Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) led to the enactment of the SCs/STs (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989. The law now forbade the practice of untouchability thus protecting marginalised communities against all forms of social injustice and exploitation. However, the ensuing years revealed many deficiencies in the Act and its enforcement leading to a demand to strengthen it…
Tributes to B. D. Sharma
National Food Security Act, 2013
With 194 million people designated as food insecure, India has the world’s largest number of hungry people. Despite this inordinately high figure, the state till 2013 did not recognise the need for a law-based entitlement to food. It was in September 2013 that the National Food Security Act (NFSA) was enacted. Though a landmark legislation, and despite its life-cycle approach, the NFSA falls short of realising this objective due to lack of univer…
Looking into Injustices in India
Harsh Mander, Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India, New Delhi, Speaking Tiger, 2015, 464 pp., ₹ 495, ISBN 9789385288005 (Paperback with flaps)
The Ordinance Amending the Land Acquisition Law (2013)
The Land Acquisition Act 1894 was comprehensively amended in 2013 which, among others, provided for prior consent of land owners in cases of acquisition for private companies and public partnerships, social impact assessment of all projects requiring land acquisition and restrictions on acquisition of irrigated agricultural land to accommodate some of the concerns of people affected by land acquisition. The ordinance promulgated in 2014 nullifies…
Urban Growth and Exclusion of the Poor
Urban growth in India is not equitable across different size categories, with concentration in large cities and low level of growth in small and medium towns. Market-oriented reforms in urban governance have increased this inequity as reflected in the implementation of JnNRUM and UIDSMMT programmes. This has also produced a bias against the poor in large cities in absorbing migrants and the level of infrastructure and services available to them i…
Trade in Health Services Implications for People’s Health
The neo-liberal transformation of global economy has brought in a new trade regime replacing GATT 1947 with incorporation of services and intellectual property in the products to be exchanged and WTO as its powerful regulator. Health being one of the services has become tradable for the first time. India has chosen to engage in health trade substantially to drive economic benefits from medical tourism, export of pharmaceuticals and manpower, and …
Militant Left Radicalism, State and Civil Society
The unorganised sector workers' Social Security Act, 2008
Political Violence and Police in India
Assault of Organized Religions
Globalisation unravelled
Development, displacement, and resistance
Peasants across the country are opposing development projects which displaced them from their land, habitat, livelihood and environment. They are questioning the paradigm of development itself which is so heavily loaded against them. The law on land acquisition is central to the understanding of this hostility to development. Their resistance is rooted in the conceptual frame and design of the land acquisition act which empowers the government to…
Swelling displacement and elusive rehabilitation
In the recent past, two major policy interventions have been made to resettle and rehabilitated persons displaced as a result of acquisition of land for development projects. While the Government of Orrissa brought out its policy in 2006, the Central Government notified a new policy in 2007. Both policies suffer from serious deficits and fail to meet the aspirations of the agitating peasantry and the norms advocated by the civil society groups. T…
Abandoned
Role and image of law in India
Tribes and cultural ecology in central India-A study among the Chota and Bada Marias
Development, displacement, and resistance
Peasants across the country are opposing development projects which displaced them from their land, habitat, livelihood and environment. They are questioning the paradigm of development itself which is so heavily loaded against them. The law on land acquisition is central to the understanding of this hostility to development. Their resistance is rooted in the conceptual frame and design of the land acquisition act which empowers the government to…
Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act and Rules
Compensatory afforestation means the afforestation of plantations of an equivalent area of non-forest land or of double the area of degraded notified forest to compensate for the loss of forests diverted for development activities. The user of this diverted forest is required to pay its ‘net present value’ to the forest department for this purpose. On the direction of the Supreme Court, a law has been enacted and rules framed to manage the money …
Legislature Proposes, Judiciary Disposes
The increasing ferocity and frequency of violence against Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) led to the enactment of the SCs/STs (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989. The law now forbade the practice of untouchability thus protecting marginalised communities against all forms of social injustice and exploitation. However, the ensuing years revealed many deficiencies in the Act and its enforcement leading to a demand to strengthen it…
The phenomenon of Sanskritization in a forest‐dwelling tribe of Gujarat, India. nutrient intake and practices in the special groups
“Sanskritization,” a social‐cultural phenomenon attempting to improve caste or tribal status, was studied for differences in nutrient intake and food practices in the infant, toddler, preschooler, pregnant and lactating woman of the Sanskritized and non‐Sanskritized segments of the Rathwakoli, Gujarat. The retinol intakes in all groups of both segments was alarmingly low. The non‐Sanskritized special groups, however, showed notably higher dietary…
Intrafamilial distribution of nutrients in a deep forest‐dwelling tribe of Gujarat, India
The intrafamilial distribution of food was studied in 78 male heads of families of the Rathwakoli tribe and their family members in Chhotaudepur. Gujarat. The “head” (moderate worker) was found to be in positive nutrient intake status except for retinol and ascorbic acid, receiving the lion's share of the family diet. Other family members—toddlers (1–3 years), preschoolers (4–6 years), school children (7–12 years), adolescents (13–18 years), preg…
The impact of sanskritization in a forest‐dwelling tribe of Gujarat, India. Ecology, food consumption patterns, nutrient intake, anthropometric, clinical and hematological status
The phenomenon of “Sanskritization,” a process by which a low caste or tribe is able to rise to a higher position in the caste hierarchy by adopting vegetarianism, teetotalism, and rituals of the higher castes, was investigated in two culturally different segments of the forest‐dwelling Rathwakoli, Gujarat, India. Sixty‐five Bhagat families who had given up meat, alcohol and other tribal ways were compared with 42 non‐Bhagat families who adhered …
Sociology of Human Rights-A Study of Indian Experience in Child Welfare
Tribes and cultural ecology in central India-A study among the Chota and Bada Marias
Role and image of law in India
Globalisation unravelled
Development, displacement, and resistance
Peasants across the country are opposing development projects which displaced them from their land, habitat, livelihood and environment. They are questioning the paradigm of development itself which is so heavily loaded against them. The law on land acquisition is central to the understanding of this hostility to development. Their resistance is rooted in the conceptual frame and design of the land acquisition act which empowers the government to…
Swelling displacement and elusive rehabilitation
In the recent past, two major policy interventions have been made to resettle and rehabilitated persons displaced as a result of acquisition of land for development projects. While the Government of Orrissa brought out its policy in 2006, the Central Government notified a new policy in 2007. Both policies suffer from serious deficits and fail to meet the aspirations of the agitating peasantry and the norms advocated by the civil society groups. T…
Abandoned
The unorganised sector workers' Social Security Act, 2008
Political Violence and Police in India
Assault of Organized Religions
Trade in Health Services Implications for People’s Health
The neo-liberal transformation of global economy has brought in a new trade regime replacing GATT 1947 with incorporation of services and intellectual property in the products to be exchanged and WTO as its powerful regulator. Health being one of the services has become tradable for the first time. India has chosen to engage in health trade substantially to drive economic benefits from medical tourism, export of pharmaceuticals and manpower, and …
Militant Left Radicalism, State and Civil Society
Urban Growth and Exclusion of the Poor
Urban growth in India is not equitable across different size categories, with concentration in large cities and low level of growth in small and medium towns. Market-oriented reforms in urban governance have increased this inequity as reflected in the implementation of JnNRUM and UIDSMMT programmes. This has also produced a bias against the poor in large cities in absorbing migrants and the level of infrastructure and services available to them i…
National Food Security Act, 2013
With 194 million people designated as food insecure, India has the world’s largest number of hungry people. Despite this inordinately high figure, the state till 2013 did not recognise the need for a law-based entitlement to food. It was in September 2013 that the National Food Security Act (NFSA) was enacted. Though a landmark legislation, and despite its life-cycle approach, the NFSA falls short of realising this objective due to lack of univer…
Looking into Injustices in India
Harsh Mander, Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India, New Delhi, Speaking Tiger, 2015, 464 pp., ₹ 495, ISBN 9789385288005 (Paperback with flaps)
The Ordinance Amending the Land Acquisition Law (2013)
The Land Acquisition Act 1894 was comprehensively amended in 2013 which, among others, provided for prior consent of land owners in cases of acquisition for private companies and public partnerships, social impact assessment of all projects requiring land acquisition and restrictions on acquisition of irrigated agricultural land to accommodate some of the concerns of people affected by land acquisition. The ordinance promulgated in 2014 nullifies…
Tributes to B. D. Sharma
Legislature Proposes, Judiciary Disposes
The increasing ferocity and frequency of violence against Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) led to the enactment of the SCs/STs (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989. The law now forbade the practice of untouchability thus protecting marginalised communities against all forms of social injustice and exploitation. However, the ensuing years revealed many deficiencies in the Act and its enforcement leading to a demand to strengthen it…
Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act and Rules
Compensatory afforestation means the afforestation of plantations of an equivalent area of non-forest land or of double the area of degraded notified forest to compensate for the loss of forests diverted for development activities. The user of this diverted forest is required to pay its ‘net present value’ to the forest department for this purpose. On the direction of the Supreme Court, a law has been enacted and rules framed to manage the money …
Comments on ‘Draft of the Policies for Great Andamanese and Sentinelese’ Published in journal of Anthropological Survey of India , 69(1), 165–176
Swaraj and the Reluctant State
Universalising Healthcare in India
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