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Reinventing India : liberalization, Hindu nationalism, and popular democracy / Stuart Corbridge and John Harriss.
Publication details: Cambridge, UK : Polity ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2000.Description: xx, 313 pages : maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0745620760
- 9780745620763
- 0745620779
- 9780745620770
- (pbk.)
- (pbk.)
- 954.04 21
- DS 480.84 .C783 2000
- 15.75
- MC 7100
- MH 14086
Contents:
Review: "Reinventing India examines the history of modern India and its contemporary transformation, providing a lucid and eminently readable of the changes which are shaking India today."--Jacket.
Map 1. Territorial growth of the East India Company, to 1843 -- Map 2. Contemporary India -- pt. I. Invention of Modern India. 1. The Light of Asia? India in 1947. 2. 'Sovereign, Democratic, Federal, Socialist, Secular': The Invention of Modern India -- pt. II. Contested Modernities. 3. The 'Tall Men' and the 'Third Way': Nehru, Patel and the Building of Modern India. 4. Jealous Populism, Crises and Instability: Indira's India. 5. Drifting Towards Catastrophe: The Powerlessness of the Congress-(I). 6. 'Elite Revolts': Reforming and Reinventing India in the 1990s -- pt. III. The Reinvention of India. 7. The Dialectics of Reform: The State and Economic Liberalization. 8. The Guilty Men? Militant Hinduism and the Politics of Anti-secularism. 9. Transfers of Power? Subaltern Politics, Sites of Empowerment and the Reshaping of India's Democracy.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-296) and index.
Map 1. Territorial growth of the East India Company, to 1843 -- Map 2. Contemporary India -- pt. I. Invention of Modern India. 1. The Light of Asia? India in 1947. 2. 'Sovereign, Democratic, Federal, Socialist, Secular': The Invention of Modern India -- pt. II. Contested Modernities. 3. The 'Tall Men' and the 'Third Way': Nehru, Patel and the Building of Modern India. 4. Jealous Populism, Crises and Instability: Indira's India. 5. Drifting Towards Catastrophe: The Powerlessness of the Congress-(I). 6. 'Elite Revolts': Reforming and Reinventing India in the 1990s -- pt. III. The Reinvention of India. 7. The Dialectics of Reform: The State and Economic Liberalization. 8. The Guilty Men? Militant Hinduism and the Politics of Anti-secularism. 9. Transfers of Power? Subaltern Politics, Sites of Empowerment and the Reshaping of India's Democracy.
"Reinventing India examines the history of modern India and its contemporary transformation, providing a lucid and eminently readable of the changes which are shaking India today."--Jacket.
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