Reinventing India: Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism and Popular DemocracyISBN: 978-0-7456-2077-0
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336 pages
December 2000, Polity
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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