Diversity and Change in Modern India
Economic, Social and Political Approaches
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy; 159;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 April 2010
- ISBN 9780197264515
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages324 pages
- Size 242x163x24 mm
- Weight 693 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 41 figures and tables 0
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Short description:
This volume provides an authoritative, but accessible, account of the major changes over the last few decades in the demography, economy, society, and politics of a country that is fast becoming one of the most important forces in the contemporary world.
MoreLong description:
India's society, economy, and polity have been transformed at a gathering pace since the early 1990s, and India's growing role on the world stage makes it imperative to understand the roots and consequences of these changes. The 11 papers in this interdisciplinary volume review the growing body of data that help to make sense of these changes and to understand their likely significance.
The volume provides systematic, macro-level studies of economic, demographic, social, and political change in India but also micro-level analyses of the detailed mechanisms 'on the ground' of how Indian society is being re-shaped. This rare combination of micro- and macro-level analyses thus gives a rounded picture not only of national trends but also of the underlying processes of change.
Each of the papers, by leading authorities in each field, showcases the fruits of new, previously unpublished scholarship across the social sciences. For example, Oliver Heath and Yogendra Yadav's paper draws on the remarkable series of election studies from 1967 to 2004 to offer an original picture and analysis of electoral change as India moved from its post-indep to understanding the processes of change and diversity in modern India.endence period of Congress dominance to its contemporary much more diverse structure. By contrast, the paper by Patricia and Roger Jeffery draws upon intensive village-level fieldwork conducted across 25 years when social welfare services have been transformed under globalising and liberalising pressures. By bringing together such contrasting kinds of social science studies, the volume will be a major new contribution to understanding the processes of change and diversity in modern India.
Table of Contents:
Incongruities, Ironies and Achievements: India's Tryst with Modernity
Growing Regional Variation: Demographic Change and its Implications
Costly Absences, Coercive Presences: Health Care in Rural North India
Economic Resurgence, Lopsided Reform and Jobless Growth
The Blind Side of Globalization: Auditing Merchant Producers in India's Export Sector
Unequal Opportunities: Class, Caste and Social Mobility
The Die is Cast(e): The Debate on Backward Caste/Class Quotas,1990 and 2006
. The Rise of Caste Politics: Party System Change and Voter Realignment, 1962- 2004
Understanding Popular Politics: Caste, Kinship and Factionalism among Yadavs in North India
A Left Front Election
The Challenge of Representing the Complex Reality of India
