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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... demand protection for the rights of cultural community , and the state supports this demand , also incidentally helping to en- trench patriarchal social relations . It does so by employing a discourse of protection that seeks to ...
... demand protection for the rights of cultural community , and the state supports this demand , also incidentally helping to en- trench patriarchal social relations . It does so by employing a discourse of protection that seeks to ...
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... demands for relief expenditure . This duality was , it will be argued , rendered possible by the politics of nomenclature , which entailed converting the discourse of hunger into the dis- course of drought , impliedly shifting the blame ...
... demands for relief expenditure . This duality was , it will be argued , rendered possible by the politics of nomenclature , which entailed converting the discourse of hunger into the dis- course of drought , impliedly shifting the blame ...
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... demands rather than high - pitched ones . Low revenue demands , they believed , encouraged improvidence and careless farming , thereby rendering farmers more vulnerable to indebtedness , and reducing their capacity to resist famine ...
... demands rather than high - pitched ones . Low revenue demands , they believed , encouraged improvidence and careless farming , thereby rendering farmers more vulnerable to indebtedness , and reducing their capacity to resist famine ...
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