Understanding contemporary India: critical perspectives/
Vanaika, Achin.
Understanding contemporary India: critical perspectives/ Achin Vanaika and Rajeev Bhargava. - Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2015. - xxviii, 372 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A Collective Vision /Achin Vanaik and Rajeev Bhargava
Introduction /Achin Vanaik and Rajeev Bhargava
State and Constitution: Indian Peculiarities
1. India's Secular Constitution /Rajeev Bhargava
2. Constitutionalising Difference: The Indian Experiment /Ashok Acharya
Matters of Governance: Theory and Practice
3. Putting Civil Society in Its Place /Neera Chandhoke
4. State, Planning and Politics of Irrigation Development: A Critique of Large Dams /Satyajit Singh
5. State Institutions and Poverty: A Case Study of Chittoor /N. Sukumar
National Re-imaginings: Clashes of Identity
6. History, Truth and Nation: Contemporary Debates on Education in India /Nivedita Menon
7. The Conundrums of the Global-National: Using Tagore for a New Politics of the Global /P. K. Datta
8. Contested Spaces of State and Identity Politics: Re-visiting the Relationship of Jammu & Kashmir with India /Navnita C. Behera
9. Military in the Power Structure of Pakistan: An Indian Perspective /Veena Kukreja
New Explorations: Serving the Oppressed
10. How Egalitarian Are the Social Sciences in India /Gopal Guru
11. Social Movements in Creative Society: Of Autonomy and Interconnection /Manoranjan Mohanty
Whither the Indian Polity?
12. Transformation of the Indian Political Party System /M. P. Singh and Kyoung-Hee Koh
13. The Paradoxes of Indian Politics /Achin Vanaik
9788125039891 8125039899
Social problems
Identity politics
Politics and government
Constitutional law
Political science
Social history
Civilization
954.05 / VAN/U
Understanding contemporary India: critical perspectives/ Achin Vanaika and Rajeev Bhargava. - Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2015. - xxviii, 372 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A Collective Vision /Achin Vanaik and Rajeev Bhargava
Introduction /Achin Vanaik and Rajeev Bhargava
State and Constitution: Indian Peculiarities
1. India's Secular Constitution /Rajeev Bhargava
2. Constitutionalising Difference: The Indian Experiment /Ashok Acharya
Matters of Governance: Theory and Practice
3. Putting Civil Society in Its Place /Neera Chandhoke
4. State, Planning and Politics of Irrigation Development: A Critique of Large Dams /Satyajit Singh
5. State Institutions and Poverty: A Case Study of Chittoor /N. Sukumar
National Re-imaginings: Clashes of Identity
6. History, Truth and Nation: Contemporary Debates on Education in India /Nivedita Menon
7. The Conundrums of the Global-National: Using Tagore for a New Politics of the Global /P. K. Datta
8. Contested Spaces of State and Identity Politics: Re-visiting the Relationship of Jammu & Kashmir with India /Navnita C. Behera
9. Military in the Power Structure of Pakistan: An Indian Perspective /Veena Kukreja
New Explorations: Serving the Oppressed
10. How Egalitarian Are the Social Sciences in India /Gopal Guru
11. Social Movements in Creative Society: Of Autonomy and Interconnection /Manoranjan Mohanty
Whither the Indian Polity?
12. Transformation of the Indian Political Party System /M. P. Singh and Kyoung-Hee Koh
13. The Paradoxes of Indian Politics /Achin Vanaik
9788125039891 8125039899
Social problems
Identity politics
Politics and government
Constitutional law
Political science
Social history
Civilization
954.05 / VAN/U