Corbridge / Harriss / Jeffrey India Today

Economy, Politics and Society
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-6535-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 343 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Politics Today

Twenty years ago India was still generally thought of as anarchetypal developing country, home to the largest number of poorpeople of any country in the world, and beset by problems of loweconomic growth, casteism and violent religious conflict. Now Indiais being feted as an economic power-house which might well becomethe second largest economy in the world before the middle of thiscentury. Its democratic traditions, moreover, remain broadlyintact.
How and why has this historic transformation come about? Andwhat are its implications for the people of India, for Indiansociety and politics? These are the big questions addressed in thisbook by three scholars who have lived and researched in differentparts of India during the period of this great transformation.
Each of the 13 chapters seeks to answer a particular question:When and why did India take off? How did a weak state promoteaudacious reform? Is government in India becoming more responsive(and to whom)? Does India have a civil society? Does caste stillmatter? Why is India threatened by a Maoist insurgency? Inaddressing these and other pressing questions, the authors takefull account of vibrant new scholarship that has emerged over thepast decade or so, both from Indian writers and India specialists,and from social scientists who have studied India in a comparativecontext.
India Today is a comprehensive and compelling textfor students of South Asia, political economy, development andcomparative politics as well as anyone interested in the future ofthe world's largest democracy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Corbridge, Stuart

Harriss, John

Jeffrey, Craig

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables vii
Abbreviations ix
Preface and Acknowledgements xiii
1 Making Sense of India Today 1
Part I: Economy
2 When and Why Did India Take Off? 23
3 How Have the Poor Fared (and Others Too)? 47
4 Why Hasn't Economic Growth Delivered More for IndianWorkers? 80
5 Is the Indian State Delivering on Promises of 'InclusiveGrowth' and Social Justice? 100
Part II: Politics
6 How Did a 'Weak' State Promote Audacious Reform? 121
7 Has India's Democracy Been a Success? 140
8 Is Government in India Becoming More Responsive? 158
9 Has the Rise of Hindu Nationalism Halted? 177
10 Rural Dislocations:Why Has Maoism Become Such a Force inIndia? 197
Part III: Society
11 Does India Have a Civil Society? 221
12 Does Caste Still Matter in India? 239
13 How Much Have Things Changed for Indian Women? 258
14 Can India Benefi t From Its Demographic Dividend? 286
15 Afterword: India Today, and India in the World 302
Glossary 307
Bibliography 309
Index 361

Über Autor(innen)

Stuart Corbridge is professor of development studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
John Harriss is director of the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University.
Craig Jeffrey is professor of human geography at the University of Oxford.