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
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