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Desai A R

State and society in India : essays in dissent / A R Desai - Bombay : Popular Prakshan, 1975. - xi, 184 p. : 22 cm

Part 1;
MODERNIZATION OF UNDERDEVELOPED SOCIETIES:
THEORETICAL CRITIQUE;
1. Approaches to Modernization of Underdeveloped Societies;
2. Modernization of Underdeveloped Societies:
Need for Revaluation of the Concept;
3. Types of Society: Capitalist and Socialist;
Part II:
THE WELFARE STATE AND "PUBLIC PROTEST";
4. The Myth of the Welfare State;
5. The Marxist Theory of the State;
6. "Public Protest" and Parliamentary Democracy;
7. "Ends and Means": Their Dialectical Unity;
8. "Two-Stages" Theory of Revolution in Third World Need for Its Evaluation;
Part III: POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA:
NEED FOR A NEW APPROACH;
9. Politics and Society in India-Need for a New Hypothesis;
10. The Indian State-An Agency of Modernization on Capitalist Path;
11. Emerging Leadership in India;
12. Coalition Governments-Some Theoretical Considerations.


ISBN: 9788171541133 8171541135 (hbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social Change - India - Essays
Modernisation - Underdeveloped Socieities - A Crtique
Welfare State - Public Protest - India
Politics - Development - India

Dewey Class. No.: 303.4 DES