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  • Decentralization, Local Governance, and Social Wellbeing in India

    Do Local Governments Matter?

    by Rani Mullen ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies
    Over the past three decades, decentralization has been seen as the means for allowing local governments to become more accountable, and for encouraging the deepening of democracy and the building of village communities. By drawing on original village-level case studies of six villages in three different Indian states, this book presents a systematic analysis of the impact of decentralization on ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    This book moves the discussion of affirmative action beyond the United States to other countries that have had similar policies, often for a longer time than Americans have. It also moves the discussion beyond the theories, principles, and laws that have been so often debated to the actual empirical consequences of affirmative action in the United States and in India, Nigeria, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • An Uncertain Glory

    India and its Contradictions

    by Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen ...
    When India became independent in 1947 after two centuries of colonial rule, it immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system, with multiple parties, freedom of speech, and extensive political rights. The famines of the British era disappeared, and steady economic growth replaced the economic stagnation of the Raj. The growth of the Indian economy quickened further over the last three ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • India Today

    Economy, Politics and Society

    by Stuart Corbridge, John Harriss, Craig Jeffrey ...
    Series series Politics Today
    Twenty years ago India was still generally thought of as an archetypal developing country, home to the largest number of poor people of any country in the world, and beset by problems of low economic growth, casteism and violent religious conflict. Now India is being feted as an economic power-house which might well become the second largest economy in the world before the middle of this century. ... Read more

    $33.00 USD

  • Diaspora, Development, and Democracy

    The Domestic Impact of International Migration from India

    by Devesh Kapur ...
    What happens to a country when its skilled workers emigrate? The first book to examine the complex economic, social, and political effects of emigration on India, Diaspora, Development, and Democracy provides a conceptual framework for understanding the repercussions of international migration on migrants' home countries.Devesh Kapur finds that migration has influenced India far beyond a ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Employment, Poverty and Rights in India

    by Dayabati Roy ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    In comparison to other social groups, India’s rural poor – and particularly Adivasis and Dalits - have seen little benefit from the country’s economic growth over the last three decades. Though economists and statisticians are able to model the form and extent of this inequality, their work is rarely concerned with identifying possible causes.Employment, Poverty and Rights in India analyses ... Read more

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  • The Durable Slum

    Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai

    by Liza Weinstein ...
    Series series Globalization and Community
    In the center of Mumbai, next to the city’s newest and most expensive commercial developments, lies one of Asia’s largest slums, where as many as one million squatters live in makeshift housing on one square mile of government land. This is the notorious Dharavi district, best known from the movie Slumdog Millionaire. In recent years, cities from Delhi to Rio de Janeiro have demolished similar ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Understanding India's New Political Economy

    A Great Transformation?

    Edited by Sanjay Ruparelia, Sanjay Reddy, John Harriss, Stuart Corbridge ...
    A number of large-scale transformations have shaped the economy, polity and society of India over the past quarter century. This book provides a detailed account of three that are of particular importance: the advent of liberal economic reform, the ascendance of Hindu cultural nationalism, and the empowerment of historically subordinate classes through popular democratic mobilizations.Filling a ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Modern Migrations

    Gujarati Indian Networks in New York and London

    by Maritsa Poros ...
    Although globalization seems like a recent phenomenon linked to migration, some groups have used social networks to migrate great distances for centuries. To gain new insights into migration today, Modern Migrations takes a closer look at the historical presence of globalization and how it has organized migration and social networks. With a focus on the lives of Gujarati Indians in New York and ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Poverty amid Plenty in the New India

    by Atul Kohli ...
    India has one of the fastest growing economies on earth. Over the past three decades, socialism has been replaced by pro-business policies as the way forward. And yet, in this 'new' India, grinding poverty is still a feature of everyday life. Some 450 million people subsist on less than $1.25 per day and nearly half of India's children are malnourished. In his latest book, Atul Kohli, a seasoned ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Indian Politics

    Edited by Atul Kohli, Prerna Singh ...
    India’s growing economic and socio-political importance on the global stage has triggered an increased interest in the country. This Handbook is a reference guide, which surveys the current state of Indian politics and provides a basic understanding of the ways in which the world’s largest democracy functions.The Handbook is structured around four main topics: political change, political economy, ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Subaltern Movements in India

    Gendered Geographies of Struggle Against Neoliberal Development

    by Manisha Desai ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Social struggles in India target both the state and private corporations. Three subaltern struggles against development in Gujarat, India, succeeded, to varying degrees, due to legalism from below and translocal solidarity, but that success has been compromised by its gendered geographies.Based on extensive field research, this book examines the reasons for the three social movements succeess. It ... Read more

    $65.99 USD