TY  - BOOK
AU  - Desai, Meghand.
TI  - Development and nationhood : essays in the political economy of South Asia
SN  - 0195667603
U1  - 338.954 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University press
KW  - South Asia
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Economic history
N1  - 1. Federalism, economic growth, and economic stagnation: an interpretive model of Indian politics 1947-66 --
2. India: emerging contradictions of slow capitalist development --
3. The emergency: past and future --
4. The economic policy of the BJP --
5. India: end of the first republic --
6. Why is India a low inflation country? --
7. Does India need new politics? --
8. Death, democracy, and decline --
9. Democracy and development: India 1947-2002 --
10. Planning by numbers --
11. Indian planning: techniques, perspective, and context --
12. Is there life after Mahalanobis?: the political economy of India's new economic policy --
13. Planning in a new perspective --
14. Development perspectives: was there an alternative to Mahalanobis? --15. Capitalism, socialism, and the Indian economy --16. Economic reform: stalled by politics? --
17. India's triple bypass: economic liberalization, the BJP, and the 1996 elections --
18. What should India's economic priorities be in a globalizing world --
19. Has liberalization worked in India? --
20. Birth and death of nation-states: speculations about Germany and India --
21. Towards a syncretic vision of India --
22. Constructing nationality in a multinational democracy: the case of India --
23. Communalism, secularism, and the Dilemma of Indian nationhood --
24. Gujarat and its Bhasmita --
25. South Asia: economic stagnation and economic change --
26. Economic problems of South Asia --
27. Defining a new vision for South Asia --
28. Demand for cotton textiles in nineteenth century India --
29. Macro econometric models for India: a survey --
30. Power and agrarian relations: some concepts and measurements
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