Diversity and change in modern India: economic, social and political approaches

This volume provides an authoritative, but accessible, account of the major changes over the last few decades in the demography, economy, society, and politics of a country that is fast becoming one of the most important forces in the contemporary world. INDICE: 1: Roger Jeffery & Anthony Heath: Incongruities, Ironies and Achievements: India's Tryst with Modernity; 2: Tim Dyson: Growing Regional Variation: Demographic Change and its Implications; 3: Patricia Jeffery & Roger Jeffery: Costly Absences, Coercive Presences: Health Care in Rural North India; 4: Vijay Joshi: Economic Resurgence, Lopsided Reform and Jobless Growth; 5: Dipankar Gupta: The Blind Side of Globalization: Auditing Merchant Producers in India's Export Sector; 6: Divya Vaid & Anthony Heath: Unequal Opportunities: Class, Caste and Social Mobility; 7: Zoya Hasan: The Die is Cast(e): The Debate on Backward Caste/Class Quotas,1990 and 2006; 8: Oliver Heath & Yogendra Yadav:. The Rise of Caste Politics: Party System Change and Voter Realignment, 1962- 2004; 9: Lucia Michelutti: Understanding Popular Politics: Caste, Kinship and Factionalism among Yadavs in North India; 10: Mukulika Banerjee: A Left Front Election; 11: James Manor: The Challenge of Representing the Complex Realityof India

• ISBN: 978-0-19-726451-5
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 324
• Fecha Publicación: 15/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés