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Understanding contemporary India : Critical perspectives

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Bangalore Orient Black Swan 2010Description: 372p ixISBN:
  • 9788125039891
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954.05 VAN
Contents:
Contents: Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; A Collective Vision by Achin Vanaik and Rajeev Bhargava; Introduction by Achin Vanaik and Rajeev Bhargava; STATE AND CONSTITUTION: INDIAN PECULIARITIES; 1. India's Secular Constitution by Rajeev Bhargava; 2. Constitutionalising Difference: The Indian Experiment by Ashok Acharya; MATTERS OF GOVERNANCE: THEORY AND PRACTICE; 3. Putting Civil Society in Its Place by Neera Chandhoke; 4. State, Planning and Politics of Irrigation Development: A Critique of Large Dams by Satyajit Singh; 5. State Institutions and Poverty: A Case Study of Chittoor by N. Sukumar; NATIONAL RE-IMAGININGS: CLASHES OF IDENTITY; 6. History, Truth and Nation: Contemporary Debates on Education in India by Nivedita Menon; 7. The Conundrums of the Global-National: Using Tagore for a New Politics of the Global by PK. Datta; 8. Contested Spaces of State and Identity Politics: Re-visiting the Relationship of Jammu & Kashmir with India by Navnita C. Behera; 9. Military in the Power Structure of Pakistan: An Indian Perspective by Veena Kukreja; NEW EXPLORATIONS: SERVING THE OPPRESSED; 10. How Egalitarian Are the Social Sciences in India by Gopal Guru; 11. Social Movements in Creative Society: Of Autonomy and Interconnection by Manoranjan Mohanty; WHITHER THE INDIAN POLITY?; 12. Transformation of the Indian Political Party System by M. P. Singh and Kyoung-Hee Koh; 13. The Paradoxes of Indian Politics by Achin Vanaik; Note on the Contributors; Index.
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Contents:
Acknowledgements;
List of Abbreviations;
A Collective Vision by Achin Vanaik and Rajeev Bhargava;
Introduction by Achin Vanaik and Rajeev Bhargava;
STATE AND CONSTITUTION: INDIAN PECULIARITIES;
1. India's Secular Constitution by Rajeev Bhargava;
2. Constitutionalising Difference: The Indian Experiment by Ashok Acharya;
MATTERS OF GOVERNANCE: THEORY AND PRACTICE;
3. Putting Civil Society in Its Place by Neera Chandhoke;
4. State, Planning and Politics of Irrigation Development: A Critique of Large Dams by Satyajit Singh;
5. State Institutions and Poverty: A Case Study of Chittoor by N. Sukumar;
NATIONAL RE-IMAGININGS: CLASHES OF IDENTITY;
6. History, Truth and Nation: Contemporary Debates on Education in India by Nivedita Menon;
7. The Conundrums of the Global-National: Using Tagore for a New Politics of the Global by PK. Datta;
8. Contested Spaces of State and Identity Politics: Re-visiting the Relationship of Jammu & Kashmir with India by Navnita C. Behera;
9. Military in the Power Structure of Pakistan: An Indian Perspective by Veena Kukreja;
NEW EXPLORATIONS: SERVING THE OPPRESSED;
10. How Egalitarian Are the Social Sciences in India by Gopal Guru;
11. Social Movements in Creative Society: Of Autonomy and Interconnection by Manoranjan Mohanty;
WHITHER THE INDIAN POLITY?;
12. Transformation of the Indian Political Party System by M. P. Singh and Kyoung-Hee Koh;
13. The Paradoxes of Indian Politics by Achin Vanaik;
Note on the Contributors;
Index.