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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

    $38.59 USD

  • Democracy and Inequality in India

    Political Economy of a Troubled Giant

    by Atul Kohli, Kanta Murali ...
    Contemporary India provides a giant and complex panorama that deserves to be understood. Through in-depth analysis of democracy, economic growth and distribution, caste, labour, gender, and foreign policy, Atul Kohli and Kanta Murali provide a framework for understanding recent political and economic developments. They make three key arguments. Firstly, that India's well-established democracy is ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Business and Politics in India

    Edited by Christophe Jaffrelot, Atul Kohli, Kanta Murali ...
    Series series Modern South Asia
    Over the last few decades, politics in India has moved steadily in a pro-business direction. This shift has important implications for both government and citizens. In Business and Politics in India, leading scholars of Indian politics have gathered to offer an analytical synthesis of this vast topic. Collectively, they cover the many strategies that businesses have used to exert their newfound ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

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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

    $33.00 USD

  • India's Power Elite

    Class, Caste and Cultural Revolution

    by Sanjaya Baru ...
    India's Power Elite is a study of the nature of power and elitism in postcolonial India. Its point of departure is the political transition under way in twenty-first-century India, with the marginalization of the Congress Party and the staging of a cultural revolution symbolized by the rise of Hindu majoritarianism. Baru deconstructs the morphology of the Indian power elite-comprising remnants of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Phoenix Moment

    Challenges Confronting the Indian Left

    by Praful Bidwai ...
    'Praful Bidwai's analysis and conclusions compel serious engagement both by academics and political leaders.' - K.N. Panikkar'Bidwai's assessments will undoubtedly trigger further discussion.' - Romila Thapar'Praful raises the right questions and is scrupulously fair.' - Susan GeorgeIndia still has a significant and relatively powerful communist movement. In spite of the massive set... ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • 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

    $32.79 USD

  • The Separatist Conflict in Sri Lanka

    Terrorism, ethnicity, political economy

    by Asoka Bandarage ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    The book provides a detailed historically-based analysis of the origin, evolution and potential resolution of the civil conflict in Sri Lanka over the struggle to establish a separate state in its Northern and Eastern provinces. This conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the secessionist LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) is one of the world’s most intractable contemporary armed ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Democracy against Development

    Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India

    by Jeffrey Witsoe ...
    Series series South Asia Across the Disciplines
    Hidden behind the much-touted success story of India’s emergence as an economic superpower is another, far more complex narrative of the nation’s recent history, one in which economic development is frequently countered by profoundly unsettling, and often violent, political movements. In Democracy against Development, Jeffrey Witsoe investigates this counter-narrative, uncovering an antagonistic ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Sri Lanka

    Edited by Kanchana N. Ruwanpura, Amjad Mohamed Saleem ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Sri Lanka offers a comprehensive survey of issues facing the island country and an overview delineating some key moments in the country’s contemporary polity, economy, and sociality.This book outlines aspects and influences foundational to understanding a country defined by its economic and political turmoil, and rift with public distrust in today’s shifting ... Read more

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  • 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

    $25.49 USD

  • Making India Great

    The Promise of a Reluctant Global Power

    by Aparna Pande ...
    India will be the world's most populous country by 2024 and its third largest economy by 2028. But the size of our population and a sense of historical greatness alone are insufficient to guarantee we will fulfil our ambition to become a global power. Our approach to realize this vision needs more than just planning for economic growth. It requires a shift in attitudes.In Making India Great, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD