This book explores various aspects and processes of the twentieth-century Indian state, from the central, Union government down to grassroot-level in the provinces and villages.
Spis treści
Contributors; Introduction; Politics at the Central Level: 1. The Politics of Ecnomic Reforms in India: A Review of the Literature; 2. The Temptations of Presidentialism: An Explanation of the Evolving Political Strategy of the BJP; Politics at Provincial Level: 3. Ideological Integration in Post-Colonial (South) India: Aspects of a Political Language; 4. The Fight for Turf and the Crisis of Ideology: Broadcasting Reform and Media Distribution Networks in India; Politics at Urban & Town Level: 5. Land Use in Bombay: Institutional Effects and Political Outcomes; 6. Understanding Local Politics, Democracy and Civil Society: Environmental Governance in Urban India; 7. Political Institutions, Strategies of Governance and Forms of Resistance in Rural Market Towns of Contemporary Bengal: A Study of Bolpur Municipality; Rural Politics: 8. Autonomy, Political Literacy and the 'Social Woman’: Towards a Politics of Inlcusion; 9. The Development of Panchayati Raj; 10. Political Representation and Women’s Empowerment: Women in the Institution of Local Self- Government in Orissa; Notes; Bibliography; Glossary; Index
O autorze
Crispin Bates is Senior Lecturer in Modern South Asian History in the School of History & Classics at the University of Edinburgh and Director of Edinburgh University’s Centre for South Asian studies.
Subho Basu is presently an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University, where he teaches Indian History in general and nationalist politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in particular.
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