Voluntary Organisations and Rural Development in South Asia: Assumptions and Realities

The New Face of Voluntarism.- The Unresolved Qualm- Experiments with Rural Development.- Sociological Dimension of Sustainable Development.- Emerging Developmental landscape.- Entry of New Players.- Discourse on voluntary organizations (VOs): South Asian Perspective.- A model methodological formulation for empirical query.- Voluntary organizations and voluntary action as a socio-historic category.- Role of voluntary organizations in rural development: VO's perspective.- The extent of voluntarism in Vos.- Performance and Credibility of VOs in people's perception.- Portrait of VOs in media lane.- Resonances of VOs in elite corridor.- GO-VO equation at the grass root level.- Mass base and public credibility of the Vos.- Present dynamics and future trend.- Way forward for policy making and Research and Development ( R & D) activities.