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This, the third volume in the series, Readings in Indian Government and Politics, deals specifically with the state. It brings together seminal articles by a range of experts from the fields of political science, sociology and economics, which provide important insights into the processes of state formation, as also its consolidation and erosion. The Essays that follow explores a wide range of major issues including
- The historical trajectory of the modern state and its role as the central actor in economic development;
- The relationship between class and state power, the constraints n state intervention, and the challenges to the state from liberalization and globalization;
- The political culture of the state, the ideological and institutional crisis of the state, the tension between the centralizing and decentralizing tendencies of government, the restructuring of dominance and state power, and changes in the elite and policy discourses in the realm of affirmative action and secularism; and
- Ethnographies of the state, particularly the ineffectiveness of government control, the privatization of public functions, and the corruption in the everyday practices of local level bureaucracies.
With its broad and insightful coverage of many topical issues, this collection will be essential reading for those in the fields of political science, sociology, democratic governance, and economics. It will serve as a text for M. A. students of Indian government and politics while bureaucrats, politicians, planners and policy-makers will also find it of use
Table of Contents
Preface by the Series Editors
Introduction: The Political Career of the State in Independent India ZOYA HASAN
I. The Modern State in India SUDIPTA KAVIRAJ
The Political Culture of the Indian State ASHIS NANDY
The Social Character of the Indian State ACHIN VANAIK
II. Development Planning and the Indian State PARTHA CHATTERJEE
The State in India`s Economic Development PRABHAT PATNAIK
The Political Economy of Reform in India PRANAB BARDHAN
III. The Decline of the Moderate State RAJNI KOTHARI
Centralization and Powerlessness: India`s Democracy in a Comparative Perspective ATUL KOHLI
IV. Decline of a Social Order FRANCINE R FRANKEL
Changing Terms of Elite Discourse: The Case of Reservation for `Other Backward Classes` D L SHETH
Religion and Politics in Secular State: Law, Community and Gender ZOYA HASAN
V. `I am the Government Labour Officer...`: State Protection for the Rural Proletariat of South Gujarat JAN BREMEN
Blurred Boundaries: The Discourse of Corruption, the Culture of Politics and the Imagined State AKHIL GUPTA
IndexISBN - 9780761993995
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Pages : 384
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