Development and Democracy in India
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781555878108
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Central government policies; Development economics; Political structures: democracy; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Political Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Politics/International Relations; Development - Economic Development; Political Ideologies - Democracy; 1947-; 1991-; Democracy; Economic conditions; Economic policy; India; Rural development
Description: "This broad, historically grounded study examines the relationship between democratic governance and economic development in postindependence India (1947-1998). Sharma addresses the fundamental paradox of India's political economy: Why have five decades of democratically guided strategies failed to reconcile economic growth with redistribution or to mitigate the condition of extreme poverty in which some 350 to 400 million Indians - more than 40 percent of the population - live?"--BOOK JACKET.