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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... role , interventionist , minimal , or any other , for the state is an ineluc- tably judgemental exercise . Above all , any view of politics as a transformative activity manifestly entails normativity , and speci- fies the role of the ...
... role , interventionist , minimal , or any other , for the state is an ineluc- tably judgemental exercise . Above all , any view of politics as a transformative activity manifestly entails normativity , and speci- fies the role of the ...
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... role to play in precluding this . It is however often the stage preceding a famine , and can easily develop into one in the absence of timely and adequate intervention . When the social and human costs and consequences of drought become ...
... role to play in precluding this . It is however often the stage preceding a famine , and can easily develop into one in the absence of timely and adequate intervention . When the social and human costs and consequences of drought become ...
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... role , seeking funds and relief assistance . With the Centre too it shares the subsidized rice and cheap saris conception of relief . It is , however , the whipping boy of adversarial politics , which puts it on the defensive , and ...
... role , seeking funds and relief assistance . With the Centre too it shares the subsidized rice and cheap saris conception of relief . It is , however , the whipping boy of adversarial politics , which puts it on the defensive , and ...
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