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  • India Today

    Economy, Politics and Society

    by Stuart Corbridge, John Harriss, Craig Jeffrey ...
    Series series Politics Today
    Twenty years ago India was still generally thought of as an archetypal developing country, home to the largest number of poor people of any country in the world, and beset by problems of low economic growth, casteism and violent religious conflict. Now India is being feted as an economic power-house which might well become the second largest economy in the world before the middle of this century. ... Read more

    $33.00 USD

  • Reinventing India

    Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy

    by Stuart Corbridge, John Harriss ...
    When India was invented as a "modern" country in the years after Independence in 1947 it styled itself as a secular, federal, democratic Republic committed to an ideology of development. Nehru's India never quite fulfilled this promise, but more recently his vision of India has been challenged by two "revolts of the elites": those of economic liberalization and Hindu nationalism. These revolts ... Read more

    $31.00 USD

  • The Underbelly of the Indian Boom

    Edited by Stuart Corbridge, Alpa Shah ...
    As India emerges as a major economic power, producing dollar billionaires rising at the rate of 17 per year, more than 800 million Indians eke out a living on less than two dollars a day. This book takes the reader to the underbelly of the Indian boom, an India that is not shining but is struggling to survive. From the Indo-Soviet Bhilai Steel Plant in Chhattisgarh, where an aristocracy of labour ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Democracy, Development and Decentralisation in India

    Continuing Debates

    Edited by Chandan Sengupta, Stuart Corbridge ...
    Offering new insights into the political economy of contemporary India, this book considers how and why unequal patterns of economic growth have taken shape within the context of a democratic and decentralising political system, and how this has impacted upon the processes of economic development. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Understanding India's New Political Economy

    A Great Transformation?

    Edited by Sanjay Ruparelia, Sanjay Reddy, John Harriss, Stuart Corbridge ...
    A number of large-scale transformations have shaped the economy, polity and society of India over the past quarter century. This book provides a detailed account of three that are of particular importance: the advent of liberal economic reform, the ascendance of Hindu cultural nationalism, and the empowerment of historically subordinate classes through popular democratic mobilizations.Filling a ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Development

    Critical Essays in Human Geography

    Edited by Stuart Corbridge ...
    Series series Contemporary Foundations of Space and Place
    The volume brings together twenty-five of the most influential articles published in the field of development geography since 1960. The first part looks at the origins of development geography and the debates between modernization theorists and radicals that took shape in the 1970s. Thereafter, the book is organized thematically. Geographers have made key contributions to development studies in ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Industrialising Rural India

    Land, policy and resistance

    Edited by Patrik Oskarsson, Kenneth Nielsen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    Rapid industrialisation is promoted by many as the most feasible way of rejuvenating the Indian economy, and as a way of generating employment on a large scale. At the same time, the transfer of land from rural communities and indigenous groups for industrial parks, mining, or Special Economic Zones has emerged as perhaps the most explosive issue in India over the past decade. Industrialising ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Employment, Poverty and Rights in India

    by Dayabati Roy ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    In comparison to other social groups, India’s rural poor – and particularly Adivasis and Dalits - have seen little benefit from the country’s economic growth over the last three decades. Though economists and statisticians are able to model the form and extent of this inequality, their work is rarely concerned with identifying possible causes.Employment, Poverty and Rights in India analyses ... Read more

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  • Poverty amid Plenty in the New India

    by Atul Kohli ...
    India has one of the fastest growing economies on earth. Over the past three decades, socialism has been replaced by pro-business policies as the way forward. And yet, in this 'new' India, grinding poverty is still a feature of everyday life. Some 450 million people subsist on less than $1.25 per day and nearly half of India's children are malnourished. In his latest book, Atul Kohli, a seasoned ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Indian Politics

    Edited by Atul Kohli, Prerna Singh ...
    India’s growing economic and socio-political importance on the global stage has triggered an increased interest in the country. This Handbook is a reference guide, which surveys the current state of Indian politics and provides a basic understanding of the ways in which the world’s largest democracy functions.The Handbook is structured around four main topics: political change, political economy, ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • India's Open-Economy Policy

    Globalism, Rivalry, Continuity

    by Jalal Alamgir ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    This book is the first major exploration of Indian political economy using a constructivist approach. Arguing that India’s open-economy policy was made, justified, and continued on the basis of the idea of openness more than its tangible effect, the book explains what sustained the idea of openness, what philosophy, interpretations of history, and international context gave it support, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Governing India's Metropolises

    Case Studies of Four Cities

    Edited by Joël Ruet, Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal ...
    Series series Cities and the Urban Imperative
    This book is a comparative, sector-based study of the changing character of governance in Indian metropolises in the 2000s. Highlighting the horizontal and vertical ties of the participatory groups, both state and non-state, it looks at key civic issues. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD