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Democracy and development in India : from socialism to pro-business / Atul Kohli.

By: Series: Oxford collected essays | Oxford India paperbacksPublication details: New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: x, 447 p. : charts, tables ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780198068471
  • 0198068476 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS480.853 .K64 2010
Other classification:
  • MH 14086
  • 321.8 KOH-2
Contents:
Content: I. Political change Centralization and powerlessness: India's democracy in a comparative perspective Can democracies accommodate ethnic nationalism?: Rise and decline of self-determination movements in India Enduring another election: India defies the odds From majority to minority rule: Making sense of the "new" Indian politics II. Political economy India's fragmented-multiclass state and protected industrialization Politics of economic growth in India, 1980-2005, Part 1: the 1980s Politics of economic growth in India, 1980-2005, Part II: the 1990s and beyond Politics of economic liberation in India Regime types and poverty reform in India III. Politics and development in select states Breakdown in a "backward" state: Bihar Growing turmoil in an "advanced" state: Gujarat From elite activism to democratic consolidation: the rise of reform communism in West Bengal Parliamentary communism and agrarian reform: The evidence from India's Bengal The NTR phenomenon in Andhra Pradesh: Political change in a south Indian state Karnataka's land reforms: a model for India?
Summary: This volume brings together Atul Kohli's essays published over the last twenty-five years. They are organized in three sections, each section representing a distinct theme-political change; political economy; and politics and development in select states. The introductory essay provides an 'umbrella' for these essays, giving the volume a significant and useful coherence. This essay accomplishes two intellectual tasks-outlines the state-society frame of reference that underlies much of the author's published work; and provides an overview of the author's interpretation of broad political and economic changes in India, especially in the post-Nehru period. It also provides references to other relevant works not included in this volume, and then situates the specific essays in the volume within the broader changes. -- Publisher description.
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Reprint. Originally published in 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Content:

I. Political change
Centralization and powerlessness: India's democracy in a comparative perspective
Can democracies accommodate ethnic nationalism?: Rise and decline of self-determination movements in India
Enduring another election: India defies the odds
From majority to minority rule: Making sense of the "new" Indian politics
II. Political economy
India's fragmented-multiclass state and protected industrialization
Politics of economic growth in India, 1980-2005, Part 1: the 1980s
Politics of economic growth in India, 1980-2005, Part II: the 1990s and beyond
Politics of economic liberation in India
Regime types and poverty reform in India
III. Politics and development in select states
Breakdown in a "backward" state: Bihar
Growing turmoil in an "advanced" state: Gujarat
From elite activism to democratic consolidation: the rise of reform communism in West Bengal
Parliamentary communism and agrarian reform: The evidence from India's Bengal
The NTR phenomenon in Andhra Pradesh: Political change in a south Indian state
Karnataka's land reforms: a model for India?

This volume brings together Atul Kohli's essays published over the last twenty-five years. They are organized in three sections, each section representing a distinct theme-political change; political economy; and politics and development in select states. The introductory essay provides an 'umbrella' for these essays, giving the volume a significant and useful coherence. This essay accomplishes two intellectual tasks-outlines the state-society frame of reference that underlies much of the author's published work; and provides an overview of the author's interpretation of broad political and economic changes in India, especially in the post-Nehru period. It also provides references to other relevant works not included in this volume, and then situates the specific essays in the volume within the broader changes. -- Publisher description.

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