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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... response from the central government . This is , however , an unwarrantedly optimistic reading of the situation , for this model employs a rather restrictive notion of democracy on the basis of which to raise the hurrahs . A second look ...
... response from the central government . This is , however , an unwarrantedly optimistic reading of the situation , for this model employs a rather restrictive notion of democracy on the basis of which to raise the hurrahs . A second look ...
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... response . In the Assembly , at the end of a four and a half hour debate on Kalahandi , this self - confessed follower of Jayaprakash Narayan hurled his microphone at the Treasury benches . The people of Kalahandi , meanwhile , were ...
... response . In the Assembly , at the end of a four and a half hour debate on Kalahandi , this self - confessed follower of Jayaprakash Narayan hurled his microphone at the Treasury benches . The people of Kalahandi , meanwhile , were ...
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... response to such crises that dusty and largely forgotten develop- ment programmes as well as relief activities are ... responses of the state government was a disinformation campaign , of the sort that is habitually sponsored by ...
... response to such crises that dusty and largely forgotten develop- ment programmes as well as relief activities are ... responses of the state government was a disinformation campaign , of the sort that is habitually sponsored by ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
and Democracy for India | 9 |
The Welfare State | 31 |
Copyright | |
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