Reinventing India - Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy

Reinventing India - Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy

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Author: Stuart Corbridge
John Harriss/
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 314
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195662776

Description

This edition, with an updated preface, is focussed on an India in transition. It examines the history of modern India and the country's transformation from one dominant mode of political economy and identity politics to several new ones. It analyses the ideas and social forces which laid the foundations for the postcolonial state, and interprets India's recent economic and political history within the context of new social and political movements, religious resurgence, and economic reform. The authors examine key contributions made by major political thinkers working on India.

This is indispensable for students and scholars of politics, sociology, economic history, as well as the general reader.

EXPERTS FROM REVIEWS

The authors sustain a clear and compelling argument while negotiating a thicket of contentious issues.
-David Potter, The Open University

The two authors do an admirably efficient job of digesting and presenting a diversity of views on India's political evolution.
-Frontline

Corbridge and Harriss…have now remapped India comprehensively and what they have to say is of importance.
-Business Standard

This is a superb book…written with clarity, range and elegance.
-John Hall, Canadian Journal of Sociology

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

GLOSSARY

Map 1 Territorial growth of the East India Company, to 1843

Map 2 Contemporary India

PREFACE

PART I : THE INVENTION OF MODERN INDIA

The Light of Asia? India in 1947

Sovereign, Democratic, Fed