Reinventing India : liberalization, Hindu nationalism and popular democracy / Stuart Corbridge and John Harriss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corbridge, Stuart.

Contributor:

Harriss, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

India--Politics and government--1947-.

India.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xx, 313 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Polity ; Oxford ; Malden, MA : In association with Blackwell Publishers, 2000.

Summary:

Reinventing India examines the history of modern India and its contemporary transformation, providing a lucid and eminently readable account of the changes which are shaking India today.

Part I of the book describes India's transformation under colonial rule, and the ideas and social forces which underlay the deliberations of the Constitutent Assembly which was convened in 1946 to consider the shaping of the postcolonial state. Part II narrates the story of the making and unmaking of this modern India in the period from 1950 to the present day, paying attention to both economic and political developments, and engaging with the interpretations of India's recent history by such key writers as Francine Frankel, Sudipta Kaviraj and Partha Chatterjee. Part III has chapters on the dialectics of economic reform, religion and the politics of Hindu nationalism, and popular democracy. These chapters articulate a distinct position on the state and society in India at the beginning of the new century, and they allow the authors to engage with some of the key debates which concern public intellectuals in contemporary India.

Contents:

Map 1. Territorial growth of the East India Company, to 1843

Map 2. Contemporary India

Pt. I. Invention of Modern India. 1. The Light of Asia? India in 1947. 2. 'Sovereign, Democratic, Federal, Socialist, Secular': The Invention of Modern India

Pt. II. Contested Modernities. 3. The 'Tall Men' and the 'Third Way': Nehru, Patel and the Building of Modern India. 4. Jealous Populism, Crises and Instability: Indira's India. 5. Drifting Towards Catastrophe: The Powerlessness of the Congress-(I). 6. 'Elite Revolts': Reforming and Reinventing India in the 1990s

Pt. III. The Reinvention of India. 7. The Dialectics of Reform: The State and Economic Liberalization. 8. The Guilty Men? Militant Hinduism and the Politics of Anti-secularism. 9. Transfers of Power? Subaltern Politics, Sites of Empowerment and the Reshaping of India's Democracy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-296) and index.

ISBN:

0745620760

0745620779

OCLC:

43851575