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Philanthropy and the development of modern India : in the name of nation / Arun Kumar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arun Kumar, author.
- Series:
- Critical frontiers of theory, research, and policy in international development studies.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Critical frontiers of theory, research, and policy in international development studies
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social responsibility of business--India.
- Social responsibility of business.
- Economic development--India.
- Economic development.
- India--Social conditions.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- This volume draws on the history of the philanthropy of India's economic elites to examine how their ideas and understanding of development have shifted and changed over time. Kumar shows how development in India provided the moral justification for the protection of commercial interests during a turbulent period of Indian history.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Philanthropy and the Development of Modern India: In the Name of Nation
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on Sources
- 1: Development, Modernity, Nation: An Introduction
- Writing the Nation in
- Development Histories
- Elites and 'Organized' Philanthropy
- 2: Community: In Nation's Name
- Nation, through Community
- Self-reliant Responsible Communities
- Circumscribed Modernity
- 3: Self: Meritorious Few, Masses, and Citizens
- 'Best and Most Gifted'
- Making Masses into Citizens
- To Market-ready Citizens
- 4: Making Science Indian
- Overcoming Deficits
- National, But Also International
- 5: Development: Elites' Pedagogic Reflex
- Educating the Masses
- Reforming Society: Applied Social Sciences
- Postscript
- Coda: The Calculus of Development
- Appendix: Elites' Historiographic Anxieties: A Methodological Caution
- Bibliography
- Collected Works
- Monographs and Edited Collections
- Book Chapters and Articles
- Reports
- Working Papers and Theses
- Index.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-263920-X
- 0-19-190511-9
- 0-19-263919-6
- OCLC:
- 1269093074
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