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India's political economy, 1947-2004 : the gradual revolution /

Frankel, Francine R.

India's political economy, 1947-2004 : the gradual revolution / Francine R. Frankel. - 2nd ed. - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2005. - xx, 819 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Introduction: The paradox of accommodative politics and radical social change;
Class conciliation and class struggle: competitive patterns of mass mobilization in Indian nationalism;
Growth and democratic social transformation: multiple goals of economic planning;
The contraction of rapid industrialization and gradual agrarian reform;
Failures of implementation;
Attack on socialist principles of planning;
Retreat from the social goals of planning: domestic constraints and foreign pressures;
Crisis of national economic planning;
Crisis of political stability;
The Congress split and the radicalization of Indian politics;
Reprise: class accommodation or class struggle;
Impasse;
Emergency and beyond;
Toward two economies: macroeconomic reforms without redistributive change;
Political fragmentation, social conflict, and challenges to India's democracy;
The challenge of Hindu nationalism to India's constitutional democracy.

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Social conflict--India.


India--Economic conditions--1947
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