Reinventing India: Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism and Popular DemocracyISBN: 978-0-7456-2077-0
Paperback
336 pages
December 2000, Polity
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Reinventing India offers an analytical account of the
history of modern India and of its contemporary reinvention. Part
One traces India's transformation under colonial rule, and the
ideas and social forces which underlay the deliberations of the
Constituent Assembly in 1946 to consider the shaping of the
post-colonial state. Part Two then narrates the story of the making
and unmaking of this modern India in the period from 1950 to the
present day. It pays attention to both economic and political
developments, and engages with the interpretations of India's
recent history through key writers such as Francine Frankel,
Sudipta Kaviraj and Partha Chatterjee. Part Three consists of
chapters on the dialectics of economic reform, religion, the
politics of Hindu nationalism, and on popular democracy. These
chapters articulate a distinct position on the state and society in
India at the end of the century, and they allow the authors to
engage with the key debates which concern public intellectuals in
contemporary India.
Reinventing India is a lucid and eminently readable account of the transformations which are shaking India more than fifty years after Independence. It will be welcomed by all students of South Asia, and will be of interest to students of comparative politics and development studies.