Reinventing India - Corbridge, Stuart; Harriss, John
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Reinventing India examines the history of modern India and its contemporary transformation, proving a lucid and eminently readable account of the changes which are shaking India today. Part I of the book describes India's transformation under colonial rule, and the ideas and social forces which underlay the deliberations of the Constituent Assembly which was convened in 1946 to consider the shaping of the postcolonial state. Part II narrates the story of the making and unmaking of this modern India in the period from 1950 to the present day, paying attention to both economic and political…mehr

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Reinventing India examines the history of modern India and its contemporary transformation, proving a lucid and eminently readable account of the changes which are shaking India today. Part I of the book describes India's transformation under colonial rule, and the ideas and social forces which underlay the deliberations of the Constituent Assembly which was convened in 1946 to consider the shaping of the postcolonial state. Part II narrates the story of the making and unmaking of this modern India in the period from 1950 to the present day, paying attention to both economic and political developments, and engaging with the interpretations of India's recent history by such key writers as Francine Frankel, Sudipta Kaviraj and Partha Chatterjee. Part III has chapters on the dialectrics of economic reform, religion and the politics of Hindu nationalism, and popular democracy. These chapters articulate a distinct position on the state and society in India at the beginning of the new century, and they allow the authors to engage with some of the key debates which concern public intellectuals in contemporary India.
Autorenporträt
Stuart Corbridge is Professor of International Studies, University of Miami and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University. John Harriss is Reader in Development Studies at the London School of Economics.
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"This is a major contribution on the political sociology ofcontemporary India. It is a detailed and incisive account of thechanging state-society relationships in the context of elitemovements (economic liberalization and Hindu nationalism) on theone hand and the popular mobilizations of the long-suppressedsubordinate classes and castes on the other." Pranab Bardhan,University of California at Berkeley

"This is a superb analysis of India's changing political economyfrom the 1940s to 2000. The authors sustain a clear and compellingargument while negotiating a thicket of contentious issues relatedto politics and the state at different levels, democracy, classstructures, modes of accumulation, development, ideologies andreligions. Essential reading for all scholars who have an interestin these subjects." David Potter, The Open University

'This is a useful book. The authors should be congratulated forproviding a comprehensive treatment of a complex and fast changingpolitical economy. The book can be used with profit for upperdivision courses dealing with post-independence India.'Contemporary Sociology

"This is a Superb book, deserving readers from severalfields." Canadian Journal of Sociology Online

"Those who are seriously interested in acquiring anunderstanding of contemporary India are recommended to tackle thisscholarly text." Progress in Human Geography

"Interesting to the student of contemporary democracies, and ifound reading them in conjunction very illuminating. When there issuch an excellent body of English Language Literature oncontemporary India society one wonders why it is that so manysociology students in the west will complete their studies withoutever having read an article or picked up a book written on the'world's largest democracy'." Journal of the BritishSociological Association…mehr