Democracy and development in India
Subtitle: from socialism to pro-business
By: Atul Kohli
Series: Oxford collected essays -- Oxford India paperbacks; Oxford collected essays; Oxford India paperbacks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Delhi; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9780198068471
Subjects: Politics and government; Economic conditions; Politischer Wandel; Democracy; Economic development; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Demokratie
Description: This volume brings together Atul Kohli's essays published over the last twenty-five years. They are organized in three sections, each section representing a distinct theme-political change; political economy; and politics and development in select states. The introductory essay provides an 'umbrella' for these essays, giving the volume a significant and useful coherence. This essay accomplishes two intellectual tasks-outlines the state-society frame of reference that underlies much of the author's published work; and provides an overview of the author's interpretation of broad political and economic changes in India, especially in the post-Nehru period. It also provides references to other relevant works not included in this volume, and then situates the specific essays in the volume within the broader changes. -- Publisher description.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published in 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I. Political change; title: Centralization and powerlessness : India's democracy in a comparative perspective; title: Can democracies accommodate ethnic nationalism? : rise and decline of self-determination movements in India; title: Enduring another election : India defies the odds; title: From majority to minority rule : making sense of the "new" Indian politics; title: II. Political economy; title: India's fragmented-multiclass state and protected industrialization; title: Politics of economic growth in India, 1980-2005, Part 1: the 1980s; title: Politics of economic growth in India, 1980-2005, Part II: the 1990s and beyond; title: Politics of economic liberation in India; title: Regime types and poverty reform in India; title: III. Politics and developoment in select states; title: Breakdown in a "backward" state : Bihar; title: Growing turmoil in an "advanced" state : Gujarat; title: From elite activism to democratic consolidation : the rise of reform communism in West Bengal; title: Parliamentary communism and agrarian reform : the evidence from India's Bengal; title: The NTR phenomenon in Andhra Pradesh : political change in a south Indian state; title: Karnataka's land reforms : a model for India?