Democracy and the State: Welfare, Secularism and Development in Contemporary IndiaThis study examines the relationship between state, society and democracy in India over the last decade of the 20th century, by exploring how the Indian state has fared vis-a-vis its three major goals in independent India: welfare, secularism and development. In exploring some aspects of the discursive terrain of Indian politics, the book provides a narrative which bridges the gap between political theory and empirical political analysis. |
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... citizens who , despite being constitutionally equal participants in the democratic polity , are nevertheless severely handicapped in the enjoyment and exercise of the rights of equal citizenship . Citizenship may be undermined in at ...
... citizens who , despite being constitutionally equal participants in the democratic polity , are nevertheless severely handicapped in the enjoyment and exercise of the rights of equal citizenship . Citizenship may be undermined in at ...
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... citizens to democratic values such as rights , justice , or equality . Just as a view of formal democratic institutions , such as legislative assemblies or electoral rule - books , is inadequate and even impoverished , a formalistic ...
... citizens to democratic values such as rights , justice , or equality . Just as a view of formal democratic institutions , such as legislative assemblies or electoral rule - books , is inadequate and even impoverished , a formalistic ...
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... citizens from rights uniformly available to others . It permits religious personal law to invade the sphere of criminal law , hitherto 40 The heterogeneity of the Muslim community has been underscored by Imtiaz Ahmad ( 1983 ) , but ...
... citizens from rights uniformly available to others . It permits religious personal law to invade the sphere of criminal law , hitherto 40 The heterogeneity of the Muslim community has been underscored by Imtiaz Ahmad ( 1983 ) , but ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
and Democracy for India | 9 |
The Welfare State | 31 |
Copyright | |
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agricultural areas argued argument Bank Bill Castes cent Central citizens civil claims Commission Committee conception concerned Congress Constitution continued cultural deaths debate demands democracy democratic discourse displaced district drought economic effective elections equal expressed fact famine force further groups Gujarat hand High hunger identity important Independent India institutions interests irrigation issue judgement justice Kalahandi labour land legislation less Madhya Pradesh maintenance major March ment Minister minority movement Muslim Narmada Narmada Valley nature official opposition organizations Orissa party personal law Planning political population position possible Prime problem programmes protest question region relation relief religious remained Report representative resettlement response Review role Sabha Shah Bano social society starvation structure suggests Supreme Court tribal villages welfare women World