International Development and the Social Sciences
Subtitle: Essays on the History and Politics of Knowledge
Contributors: Frederick Cooper (Editor); Randall Packard (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 2, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780520209565
Subjects: Development economics; Development studies; History of ideas, intellectual history; World history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Research; Economic History; Social Sciences Research; Social sciences; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Public Policy - Economic Policy; History: World; Developing countries; Economic Policy; Development - Economic Development; History / General; Economic Development; Economic conditions
First sentence: An elephant with its feet unchained was the chosen motif on the government's publicity handouts advertising its new "liberalization" policies in 1991 as India seemed poised to make a U-turn from the course it had set since the end of colonial rule in the quest for "national development."