Routledge handbook of contemporary India / edited by Knut A. Jacobsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jacobsen, Knut A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic policy--Mathematical models.

Economic policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ()614 pages : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Taylor & Francis (Unlimited), 2023.

Summary:

"This revised and updated new edition of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India, concentrates on India as it emerged after the economic reforms and the new economic policy of the 1980s and 1990s and as it develops in the twenty-first century. It presents new developments and advancements in the research literature and includes a discussion of the major political change in India since the Hindu nationalist party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in 2014. This Handbook contains chapters by the field's foremost scholars dealing with fundamental issues in India's current cultural and social transformation. This new edition also contains six new chapters on topics not covered by the first edition, such as changes caused by the Hindu majoritarian political ideology, the Hinduization process in the northeast of India and contemporary Dalit and Adivasi literatures. Following an introduction by the editor, the book is divided into five parts: Part I: Foundation Part II: India and the world Part III: Society, class, caste and gender Part IV: Religion and diversity Part V: Cultural change and innovations Exploring the cultural changes and innovations relating a number of contexts in contemporary India, this Handbook is essential reading for students and scholars interested in Indian and South Asian culture, politics and society"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contemporary India : foundation, relations, diversity, religions and change - Knut A. Jacobsen

Partitioning India : dreams, memories and legacies - Pippa Virdee

Symbiosis and resilience : the dynamics of social change and transition to democracy in India - Subrata Kumar Mitra

Foundations for a sustainable growth : India's constitution and its Supreme Court - Ananth Padmanabhan and Abhishek Chakravarty

Economic foundation of India - Kunal Sen

Equity, quantity and quality : the precarious balancing act in India's schools - Vimala Ramachandran

Agriculture and the development burden - Rajeswari S. Raina

From composite nationalism to Hindu majoritarianism : India's transition - Manjari Katju

Politics, security and foreign policy - Rajat Ganguly

Is India a South Asian or an Asian power? - Manjeet Pardesi

India's role as a global development partner - Emma Mawdsley

Dispersals, migrations, the notion of an indian diaspora and the diversity of communities - Brij V. Lal and Knut A. Jacobsen

Matters that matter : material religion in ontemporary Hinduism - Vasudha Narayanan

International networks supporting Hindutva - Rohit Chopra

Yoga and physical culture : transnational history and blurred discursive contexts - Mark Singleton

The politics of economic reforms in India - Diego Maiorano

Divided we stand : the Indian city after economic liberalisation - Nandini Gooptu

India's middle classes in contemporary India - Leela Fernandes

Caste : why does it still matter? - Surinder S. Jodhka

Hindutva and hygiene : Swachh Bharat Mission as an urban spatial purification project - Aman Luthra

Corruption and anti-corruption in modern India : history. Patronage, and the moral politics of anti-colonialism - William Gould

Regional perspective : gujarat and the contradictory co-existence of economic enterprise and political illiberalism - Harald Tambs-Lyche and Nikita Sud

Intimate spaces of struggle : rethinking family and marriage in contemporary India - Mallarika Sinha Roy

Adivasis and -contemporary India : engagements with the state, non-state actors and the capitalist economy - Uday Chandra

Myth as history and history as myth : the instructive case of India - Gerald James Larson

Hindu pilgrimage sites and travel : infrastructure, economy, identity and conflicts - Knut A. Jacobsen

Death of the sacred : cow, caste and Hindu nationalism - Shivani Kapoor

Hindutva becoming in the northeast of India - Arkotong Longkumer

Ambedkar's life and his Navayana Buddhism - Eleanor Zelliot

Religion, identity and empowerment : the making of Ravidassia Dharm (Dalit religion) in contemporary Punjab - Ronki Ram

Muslims in contemporary India : socio-religious diversity and the questions of citizenship - R. Santhosh

India's Muslim minority : religious violence and why India's crime statistics cannot be trusted - Marika Vicziany

Christians in India : living on the margins with a diverse and controversial past - John C. B. Webster

'We too have the sun' : literatures from the Adivasi and Dalit communities of East India - Sipra Mukherjee

Combative constructions of femininity in the late twentieth century narratives of India - Nandita Ghosh

Masculinity and muscularity in a changing India : socioeconomic mobility among new ('lower') middle class men - Michiel Baas

Changing food habits in contemporary India : discourses and practices among the middle classes - Michaël Bruckert and Mathieu Ferry

Coping with the diseases of modernity : the use of siddha medical knowledge and practices to treat patients with diabetes - Brigitte Sébastia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781000984118

9781003278436

OCLC:

1391329761