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  • The 2024 Parliamentary Elections in India

    Nation, Region and Religion

    Edited by Harihar Bhattacharyya, Subrata Mitra ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides an explanation and analysis of the 2024 national parliamentary elections in India. The elections of 2024 have raised many questions regarding India’s transition to democracy and its consolidation, and the exact nature of the ‘national’ verdict, the role of religion, caste and regional identity in determining the outcome. We ask: is the state of Indian democracy a function of who ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Political Corruption and Organizational Crime

    The Grey Fringes of Democracy and the Private Economy

    Edited by Elizangela Valarini, Markus Pohlmann, Subrata Mitra ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Level of compliance - one of the most important prerequisites of good governance - varies widely across countries of the Global North and the less developed, Global South. Acts of non-compliance, such as electoral irregularities, dubious deals between private and public sectors, questionable role of the justice systems and financial scandals, though they vary greatly across countries, are an ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Subnational Movements In South Asia

    by Subrata Mitra, R. Alison Lewis, Robert C Oberst, R Alison Lewis ...
    The idea of the book initially emerged from a panel discussion at the Specialist Group on South Asia of the Political Studies Association, UK, in March 1993. On its tortuous path to publication, it has been enriched by critical comments from Sumit Ganguly, Vernon Hewitt, Iftikhar Malik, Gurharpal Singh and David Taylor. The volume has benefited fromSubrata Mitra's long association with the Centre ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Poverty Reduction in a Changing Climate

    by Hari Bansha Dulal, Craig Johnson, Nora Lustig, Luis F. López-Calva, Subrata Mitra, Jivanta Schöttli, Markus Pauli, Kate Bird, Kate Higgins, George Joseph0, Quentin Wodon1, Enrique Hennings2, Arup Mitra3, John Weiss4, Sergei Soares5, Dilys Roe6, Terry Sunderland7, Bryan R. Bushley8, Rishikesh R. Bhandary9, Roberto Foa0, Milo Vandemoortele1 ...
    Poverty reduction challenges in the twenty-first century are not the same as those from the previous century. The shift is due in no small part to climate change and climate-related weather disasters, such as extreme flood and drought. The magnitude and frequency of such events are only expected to increase in the coming decades, affecting more and more impoverished people across the globe.Poverty ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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    Down But Not Out

    Gritty Comebacks of India's Diehard Founders

    by Subrata Mitra, Pankaj Mishra ...
    Narrated by Deep Pradhan ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 10 min

    Down But Not Out is a book about endurance.It tells the stories of founders who were knocked down, written off, even broken - and still found a way to stand again. Not tales of unicorns or easy wins, but of struggle, scar tissue, and the act of showing up one more day. Across three decades of India's startup journey, it shows how companies are really built: by families who stayed steady, by co ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Contemporary India: The Basics

    by Rekha Datta ...
    Series series The Basics
    Contemporary India: The Basics provides readers with a clear and accessible guide through the richness, diversity and complexity of twenty-first century India. It explores the reality of the country’s cultural diversity which creates both harmony and tension. Covering issues the country faces both domestically and on the global stage, this book analyzes the political, social, cultural and economic ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Passionate politics

    Democracy, development and India’s 2019 general election

    Edited by Indrajit Roy ...
    In May 2019, Narendra Modi won the world’s largest election. Defying expectations, he led his Bharatiya Janata Party to a resounding victory, with the highest vote share for any party in thirty years, and was re-elected as India’s Prime Minister.What accounts for the scale of Modi’s win? Why, despite economic hardship and social strife, did Indians vote so overwhelmingly for him and the BJP? This ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • India Is Broken

    A People Betrayed, Independence to Today

    by Ashoka Mody ...
    A provocative new account of how India moved relentlessly from its hope-filled founding in 1947 to the dramatic economic and democratic breakdowns of today.When Indian leaders first took control of their government in 1947, they proclaimed the ideals of national unity and secular democracy. Through the first half century of nation-building, leaders could point to uneven but measurable progress on ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Power and Contestation

    India since 1989

    by Nivedita Menon, Aditya Nigam ...
    Series series Global History of the Present
    1989 marks the unraveling of India's 'Nehruvian Consensus' around the idea of a modern, secular nation with a self-reliant economy.Caste and religion have come to play major roles in national politics. Global economic integration has led to conflict between the state and dispossessed people, but processes of globalization have also enabled new spaces for political assertion, such as around ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • A Concise History of Modern India

    by Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    A Concise History of Modern India by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, has become a classic in the field since it was first published in 2001. As a fresh interpretation of Indian history from the Mughals to the present, it has informed students across the world. In the third edition of the book, a final chapter charts the dramatic developments of the last twenty years, from 1990 through ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • India's Power Elite

    Class, Caste and Cultural Revolution

    by Sanjaya Baru ...
    India's Power Elite is a study of the nature of power and elitism in postcolonial India. Its point of departure is the political transition under way in twenty-first-century India, with the marginalization of the Congress Party and the staging of a cultural revolution symbolized by the rise of Hindu majoritarianism. Baru deconstructs the morphology of the Indian power elite-comprising remnants of ... Read more

    $5.29 USD

  • India, Pakistan, and Democracy

    Solving the Puzzle of Divergent Paths

    by Philip Oldenburg ...
    The question of why some countries have democratic regimes and others do not is a significant issue in comparative politics. This book looks at India and Pakistan, two countries with clearly contrasting political regime histories, and presents an argument on why India is a democracy and Pakistan is not. Focusing on the specificities and the nuances of each state system, the author examines in ... Read more

    $77.99 USD