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State and society in India : essays in dissent / A R Desai

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Publication details: Bombay : Popular Prakshan, 1975.Description: xi, 184 p. : 22 cmISBN:
  • 9788171541133
  • 8171541135 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.4 DES
Contents:
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.
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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.