Reinventing India : Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy
Stuart Corbridge, John Harriss
Bok Engelsk 2000
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| Utgitt | Malden, Mass. : Polity Press , 2000
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| Omfang | 1 recurso en línea (336 páginas : mapas)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record. - Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Glossary; Map 1: Territorial growth of the East India Company, to 1843; Map 2: Contemporary India; Preface; PART I The Invention of Modern India; 1 The Light of Asia? India in 1947; 2 'Sovereign, Democratic, Federal, Socialist, Secular': The Invention of Modern India; PART 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; Part III The Reinvention of India. - 7 The Dialectics of Reform: The State and Economic Liberalization8 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; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index. - When India was invented as a ""modern"" country in the years after Independence in 1947 it styled itself as a secular, federal, democratic Republic committed to an ideology of development. Nehru's India never quite fulfilled this promise, but more recently his vision of India has been challenged by two ""revolts of the elites"": those of economic liberalization and Hindu nationalism. These revolts have been challenged, in turn, by various movements, including those of India's ""Backward Classes"". These movements have exploited the democratic spaces of India both to challenge for power and to
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| ISBN | 0745620760. - 0745620779
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