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  • The Accommodation of Democracy

    A New Political Economy of Poverty Alleviation in Rural India

    by Thibaud Marcesse ...
    Series series Modern South Asia
    In The Accommodation of Democracy, Thibaud Marcesse investigates the implementation of a large poverty alleviation program, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme or NREGS, in Uttar Pradesh, one of India's poorest and most populated states. The product of legislation passed by India's parliament in 2005, NREGS is unique in that it creates an employment guarantee for all rural citizens to ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

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  • India Today

    Economy, Politics and Society

    by Stuart Corbridge, John Harriss, Craig Jeffrey ...
    Series series Politics Today
    Twenty years ago India was still generally thought of as an archetypal developing country, home to the largest number of poor people of any country in the world, and beset by problems of low economic growth, casteism and violent religious conflict. Now India is being feted as an economic power-house which might well become the second largest economy in the world before the middle of this century. ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • An Uncertain Glory

    India and its Contradictions

    by Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen ...
    When India became independent in 1947 after two centuries of colonial rule, it immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system, with multiple parties, freedom of speech, and extensive political rights. The famines of the British era disappeared, and steady economic growth replaced the economic stagnation of the Raj. The growth of the Indian economy quickened further over the last three ... Read more

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  • Diaspora, Development, and Democracy

    The Domestic Impact of International Migration from India

    by Devesh Kapur ...
    What happens to a country when its skilled workers emigrate? The first book to examine the complex economic, social, and political effects of emigration on India, Diaspora, Development, and Democracy provides a conceptual framework for understanding the repercussions of international migration on migrants' home countries.Devesh Kapur finds that migration has influenced India far beyond a ... Read more

    Was $67.09 CAD Now $40.69 CAD

  • When Crime Pays

    Money and Muscle in Indian Politics

    by Milan Vaishnav ...
    The first thorough study of the co-existence of crime and democratic processes in Indian politics   In India, the world’s largest democracy, the symbiotic relationship between crime and politics raises complex questions. For instance, how can free and fair democratic processes exist alongside rampant criminality? Why do political parties recruit candidates with reputations for wrongdoing? Why are ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Poverty amid Plenty in the New India

    by Atul Kohli ...
    India has one of the fastest growing economies on earth. Over the past three decades, socialism has been replaced by pro-business policies as the way forward. And yet, in this 'new' India, grinding poverty is still a feature of everyday life. Some 450 million people subsist on less than $1.25 per day and nearly half of India's children are malnourished. In his latest book, Atul Kohli, a seasoned ... Read more

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  • Understanding India's New Political Economy

    A Great Transformation?

    Edited by Sanjay Ruparelia, Sanjay Reddy, John Harriss, Stuart Corbridge ...
    A number of large-scale transformations have shaped the economy, polity and society of India over the past quarter century. This book provides a detailed account of three that are of particular importance: the advent of liberal economic reform, the ascendance of Hindu cultural nationalism, and the empowerment of historically subordinate classes through popular democratic mobilizations.Filling a ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Decentralization, Local Governance, and Social Wellbeing in India

    Do Local Governments Matter?

    by Rani Mullen ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies
    Over the past three decades, decentralization has been seen as the means for allowing local governments to become more accountable, and for encouraging the deepening of democracy and the building of village communities. By drawing on original village-level case studies of six villages in three different Indian states, this book presents a systematic analysis of the impact of decentralization on ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • India

    Continuity and Change in the Twenty-First Century

    by John Harriss, Craig Jeffrey, Trent Brown ...
    India has been catapulted to the centre of world attention. Its rapidly growing economy, new geo-political confidence, and global cultural influence have ensured that people across the world recognise India as one of the main sites of social dynamism in the early twenty-first century.In this book, research leaders John Harriss, Craig Jeffrey and Trent Brown explore in depth the economic, social, ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Indian Politics

    Edited by Sumit Ganguly, Eswaran Sridharan ...
    The study of Indian politics has witnessed a dramatic revival worldwide in the last few decades. There have been significant developments in national politics since 2014 with the advent of the single-party majority government of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the first such majority since 1984. Moreover, the results of the 17th Lok Sabha (Lower House) election in India in 2019 have had major ... Read more

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  • Caste, Class, and Capital

    The Social and Political Origins of Economic Policy in India

    by Kanta Murali ...
    For millions of poor people in the developing world, economic growth offers prospects for improved well-being. But what are the political and social conditions conducive to growth-oriented policies in poor democracies? This book addresses this highly consequential question by focusing on a specific empirical puzzle - policy variation across Indian states in the competition for private industrial ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Democracy without Associations

    Transformation of the Party System and Social Cleavages in India

    by Pradeep K. Chhibber ...
    Series series Interests, Identities, And Institutions In Comparative Politics
    India's party system has undergone a profound transformation over the last decade. The Congress Party, a catch-all party that brought independence in 1947 and governed India for much of the period since then, no longer dominates the electoral scene. Political parties which draw support from particular caste and religious groups are now more powerful than ever before. Democracy Without Associations ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD