Pramod Kumar

The Idea of New India

Essays in Defence of Critical Thought

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book clearly details the dilemmas that contemporary India faces and the controversies that accompany the many policies advocated to address them. The author demonstrates the fault lines in post Independence India's political and economic systems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781032150697
• ISBN-10: 1032150696
• Artikelnr.: 62800370

Autorenporträt

Pramod Kumar is Director, Institute for Development and Communication (IDC), Chandigarh. He has been appointed as Chairperson of the Haryana Governance reforms Authority (HGRA) from 2017. He was also the Chairman of Punjab Governance Reforms Commission (PGRC-II) from March 2012 to 2017. His work focuses on three interrelated themes of politics of development, violence and governance; politics of conflict management and resolution and practice of democracy through empirical methodologies and analysis of public policy and peoples movements. He is a recipient of the prestigious Homi Bhabha Award for the year 1988-1990. He has held numerous visiting assignments, including visiting professor the Legal Studies Department, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Unfolding Challenges of Democracy in India 2. Governance
for the Margins: Tensions and Faultlines 3. Governance for the People:
Deficient Citizenship? 4. Dalit Identity Architecture: From Selective
Adaptation of Cultural Symbols to Nurturing of Exclusive Sites 5.Concluding
Remarks