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India's political economy, 1947-2004 : the gradual revolution / Francine R. Frankel.

By: Publication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2005.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xx, 819 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0195658396
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.954 FRA
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Contents:
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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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.