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Reinventing India: Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy

ISBN: 978-0-7456-2077-0
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December 2000, Polity
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Acknowledgements.

Abbreviations.

Glossary.

Map 1 Territorial growth of the East India Company, to 1843.

Map 2 Contemporary India.

Preface.

Part 1: The Invention of Modern India.

Chapter 1: The Light of Asia? India in 1947.

Chapter 2: 'Sovereign, Democratic, Federal, Socialist, Secular': the Invention of Modern India.

Part Two: Contesting Modernity.

Chapter 3: the 'Tall Men' and the 'Third way': Nehru, Patel and the Building of Modern India.

Chapter 4: Jealous Populism, Crises and Instability: Indira's India.

Chapter 5: Drifting Towards Catastrophe: The Powerlessness of the Congress.

Chapter 6: 'Elite Revolts': Reforming and Reinventing India in the 1990s.

Part Three: The Reinvention of India.

Chapter 7: The Dialectics of Reform: the State and Economic Liberalization.

Chapter 8: The Guilty men? Militant Hinduism and the Politics of Anti-Secularism.

Chapter 9: Transfers of Power? Subaltern Politics, Sites of Empowerment and the Reshaping of India's Democracy.

Chapter 10: Conclusion.

Notes.

References.

Index

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