Rethinking State Politics in India
Title | Rethinking State Politics in India PDF eBook |
Author | Ashutosh Kumar |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 548 |
Release | 2016-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1315391457 |
16. Political Regimes and Economic Reforms: A Study of Bihar and Madhya Pradesh -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Rethinking Indian Political Institutions
Title | Rethinking Indian Political Institutions PDF eBook |
Author | Crispin Bates |
Publisher | Anthem Press |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2005-09 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1843317524 |
This book explores various aspects and processes of the twentieth-century Indian state, from the central, Union government down to grassroot-level in the provinces and villages.
Rethinking Public Institutions in India
Title | Rethinking Public Institutions in India PDF eBook |
Author | Devesh Kapur |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 548 |
Release | 2018-02-16 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0199091285 |
While a growing private sector and a vibrant civil society can help compensate for the shortcomings of India’s public sector, the state is—and will remain—indispensable in delivering basic governance. In Rethinking Public Institutions in India, distinguished political and economic thinkers critically assess a diverse array of India’s core federal institutions, from the Supreme Court and Parliament to the Election Commission and the civil services. Relying on interdisciplinary approaches and decades of practitioner experience, this volume interrogates the capacity of India’s public sector to navigate the far-reaching transformations the country is experiencing. An insightful introduction to the functioning of Indian democracy, it offers a roadmap for carrying out fundamental reforms that will be necessary for India to build a reinvigorated state for the twenty-first century.
Rethinking State Politics in India
Title | Rethinking State Politics in India PDF eBook |
Author | Ashutosh Kumar |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 435 |
Release | 2016-12-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1315391449 |
In recent decades, India has been witness to the assertion of geographically, culturally and historically constituted distinct and well-defined regions that display ethnic, communal, caste and other social–political cleavages. This book examines the changing configurations of state politics in India. Focussing on identity politics and development, it explores the specificities of the regions within states — not merely as politico-administrative constructs but also as conceived in historical, geographic, economic, sociological or cultural terms. Adopting a comparative approach, the book looks at alternative theoretical approaches — the quest for homeland, identity, caste politics and public policy. This second edition includes a new Introduction that updates the research in the area, while further developing the theoretical framework. One of the first major volumes on federalism in India, including studies from across the nation, this book will be indispensable for students and scholars of political science, sociology, history and South Asian studies.
Rethinking Democracy
Title | Rethinking Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Rajni Kothari |
Publisher | Orient Blackswan |
Total Pages | 188 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9788125028949 |
Rethinking Democracy is an insightful and reflective monograph on democracy in general and Indian democracy in particular. In this work, Rajni Kothari revisits the core arguments he has laid down in his various writings in the past four decades Politics in India, State Against Democracy, Communalism in India, etc. While revisiting his writings, Kothari reflects, interrogates and even contests some of his earlier formulations on democracy, state and civil society, developing a new paradigm on the basis of his intellectual experience and activist experience. Kothari makes a powerful critique of prevailing democratic theory and practice in a changing global as well as Indian contaxt and concludes that democracy has failed to achieve its objective of human emancipation and survives merely as a dream. However, this disillusionment with democracy does not deter him from searching for an alternative model of a decentralized, participatory and emancipatory democracy.
Rethinking Democracy
Title | Rethinking Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Rajni Kothari |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 200 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
"This book provides a unique insight into India's experience as the world's largest democracy. Covering democratic theory, the state, civil society, participation and the search for global justice, the author evaluates what this experience means for the very idea of democracy. The author powerfully demonstrates that we are at a juncture where democracy has failed, on a local and a global level. The promise of human emancipation has not been delivered and democratic ideals of justice and equality have failed to defeat the aggressive logic of capitalism. His acknowledgement of this disillusionment, however, allows him to search for a new decentralised and participatory democracy with freedom and environmental sustainability at its core." -- BACK COVER.
Rethinking Markets in Modern India
Title | Rethinking Markets in Modern India PDF eBook |
Author | Ajay Gandhi |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 385 |
Release | 2020-10 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108486789 |
Using historical and ethnographic analyses, this book shows how Indian markets are embedded in society and politically contested.