Corbridge, Stuart.

Reinventing India : liberalization, Hindu nationalism and popular democracy / Stuart Corbridge and John Harriss. - xx, 313 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Territorial growth of the East India Company, to 1843 -- Contemporary India -- Preface -- Invention of Modern India -- The Light of Asia? India in 1947 -- 'Sovereign, Democratic, Federal, Socialist, Secular': The Invention of Modern India -- Contested Modernities -- The 'Tall Men' and the 'Third Way': Nehru, Patel and the Building of Modern India -- Jealous Populism, Crises and Instability: Indira's India -- Drifting Towards Catastrophe: The Powerlessness of the Congress-(I) -- 'Elite Revolts': Reforming and Reinventing India in the 1990s -- The Reinvention of India -- The Dialectics of Reform: The State and Economic Liberalization -- The Guilty Men? Militant Hinduism and the Politics of Anti-secularism -- Transfers of Power? Subaltern Politics, Sites of Empowerment and the Reshaping of India's Democracy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index\. Map 1. Map 2. Pt. I. 1. 2. Pt. II. 3. 4. 5. 6. Pt. III. 7. 8. 9.

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