Politics and the State in India
1st Edition
Published on 31. July 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-7619-9399-5 (ISBN)
Description
Examining the processes of state formation and consolidation, and the erosion of the post-colonial state, this book highlights three themes: the constraints of modernization; the contradictory logic of modernization vis-a-vis assertive political identities; and the politics of the governed and the battle for equal status at the level of the state. It sees the present crisis of the Indian state as a direct result of the post-colonial state's inability to grapple with the social and multicultural realities of the Indian polity, thus making way for various religious, caste and regional frictions to surface.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7619-9399-5 (9780761993995)
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Zoya Hasan is Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is the author and editor of eleven books and has published over two dozen articles. Her recent books include Quest for Power: Oppositional Movements and Post-Congress Politics in Uttar Pradesh; Unequal Citizens: A Study of Muslim Women In India(co-authored); Party Politics in India (edited), India's Living Constitution: Ideas, Practices and Controversies (co-edited); Transforming India: Social Dynamics of Democracy (coedited); and In a Minority: Essays on Muslim Women in India (co-edited). She has also edited the third book in our 'Readings in Indian Government and Politics' series, Politics and the State in India (Sage, 2000).
Content
Introduction - Zoya Hasan
The Political Career of the State in Independent India
PART ONE: STATE BUILDING
The Modern State in India - Sudipta Kaviraj
Development Planning and the Indian State - Partha Chatterjee
PART TWO: STRUCTURES OF DOMINANCE
A Marxist Approach to Understanding the Indian State - Achin Vanaik
The State in India's Economic Development - Prabhat Patnaik
The Political Economy of Reform in India - Pranab Bardhan
The Decline of the Moderate State - Rajni Kothari
Centralization and Powerlessness - Atul Kohli
India's Democracy in a Comparative Perspective
Decline of a Social Order - Francine Frankel
PART THREE: STATE PROCESSES
Changing Terms of Elite Discourse - D.L. Sheth
The Case of Reservation for 'Other Backward Classes'
Gender Politics, Legal Reform and the Muslim Community in India - Zoya Hasan
'I am the Government Labour Officer...' - Jan Breman
State Protection for the Rural Proletariat of South Gujarat
Blurred Boundaries - Akhil Gupta
The Discourse of Corruption, the Culture of Politics and the Imagined State
The Political Career of the State in Independent India
PART ONE: STATE BUILDING
The Modern State in India - Sudipta Kaviraj
Development Planning and the Indian State - Partha Chatterjee
PART TWO: STRUCTURES OF DOMINANCE
A Marxist Approach to Understanding the Indian State - Achin Vanaik
The State in India's Economic Development - Prabhat Patnaik
The Political Economy of Reform in India - Pranab Bardhan
The Decline of the Moderate State - Rajni Kothari
Centralization and Powerlessness - Atul Kohli
India's Democracy in a Comparative Perspective
Decline of a Social Order - Francine Frankel
PART THREE: STATE PROCESSES
Changing Terms of Elite Discourse - D.L. Sheth
The Case of Reservation for 'Other Backward Classes'
Gender Politics, Legal Reform and the Muslim Community in India - Zoya Hasan
'I am the Government Labour Officer...' - Jan Breman
State Protection for the Rural Proletariat of South Gujarat
Blurred Boundaries - Akhil Gupta
The Discourse of Corruption, the Culture of Politics and the Imagined State