India's political economy, 1947-1977: the gradual revolution/
Francine R. Frankel
- 2nd ed.
- New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005.
- xx, 819 p. ; 25 cm.
- (Oxford India paperbacks) .
Introduction: The paradox of accommodative politics and radical social change -- Class conciliation and class struggle : competitive patterns of mass mobilization in Indian nationalism -- Growth and democratic social transformation : multiple goals of economic planning -- The contraction of rapid industrialization and gradual agrarian reform -- Failures of implementation -- Attack on socialist principles of planning -- Retreat from the social goals of planning : domestic constraints and foreign pressures -- Crisis of national economic planning -- Crisis of political stability -- The Congress split and the radicalization of Indian politics -- Reprise : class accommodation or class struggle? -- Impasse -- Emergency and beyond -- Toward two economies : macroeconomic reforms without redistributive change -- Political fragmentation, social conflict, and challenges to India's democracy -- The challenge of Hindu nationalism to India's constitutional democracy.
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Politics and government Economic history Economic policy Social conditions