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State-Directed Development
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 26.00The study undertakes a comparative analysis of the state as an economic actor in developing countries. Why have some developing country states been more successful at facilitating industrialization than others? This study argues that the main reason is more or less effective states. more...
The State and Poverty in India
Cambridge University Press 1987; US$ 44.00This analysis of the role of government in eradicating India's rural poverty raises a whole series of crucial contemporary issues relating to the state, its degree of autonomy in the developing world and the problems of effecting genuine redistributive reform. The particular importance of the book is that it focuses attention on the nature of ruling... more...
Poverty Amid Plenty in the New India
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 23.00This thoughtful and challenging book affords an alternative vision of India's rise in the world. more...
Routledge Handbook of Indian Politics
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 200.00India?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... more...
States, Markets and Just Growth
United Nations University Press 2006; US$ 21.95States, Markets, and Just Growth explores the common concerns of developing countries in the quest for just growth, while also emphasizing special regional needs. The opening chapters provide a synthetic overview of the pressing shared imperatives of globalization, democracy, poverty, and inequality. The chapters that follow analyze the record of different... more...
India Working
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 30.00Barbara Harriss-White describes the working of the Indian economy through its most important social structures of accumulation. Successive chapters explore a range of topics including labour, capital, and the state. The author's conclusion challenges the notion that liberalisation releases the economy from political interference. more...
Democratic Politics and Economic Reform in India
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 32.00Successive Indian governments have remained committed to market-oriented reform since its introduction in 1991. In a well-argued examination of the political dynamics which underlie that commitment, Jenkins challenges existing theories of the relationship between democracy and economic liberalisation. more...
Remembering Partition
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 27.00Gyan Pandey's book is a compelling examination of the violence that marked the Partition of India and how it is remembered. It is also a critique of history-writing and nationalist myth-making. This is a book for historians of South Asia, sociologists, and all those concerned with the Indian subaltern story. more...
Seeing the State
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 38.00How do poor people in India understand and make use of the state in their daily lives? The authors consider key debates in development studies on participation and good governance to answer these questions. They study the extent to which poorer people can engage the political process as citizens. more...
Politics at the Turn of the Century
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2001; US$ 32.99Visit our website for sample chapters! more...
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