{"product_id":"india-continuity-and-change-in-the-twenty-first-century-hardback-9781509539703","title":"India; Continuity and Change in the Twenty-First Century (Hardback) 9781509539703","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIndia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eContinuity and Change in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Harriss (Author), Craig Jeffrey (Author), Trent Brown (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509539703, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 September 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e400 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.4 x 17 x 3.8 cm, 0.839 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e�As a book that covers a tremendous range of issues and refuses to fall for easy explanatory traps, \u003ci\u003eIndia: Continuity and Change in the 21st Century\u003c\/i\u003e offers an original, unique and comprehensive coverage of the economy, society and politics in 21st century India.�\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePhilippa Williams, Queen Mary University of London\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e�This book asks some of the most compelling questions about politics, society and the economy in contemporary India, and offers answers with historical depth, a comprehensive engagement with the latest scholarship on the subject, and nuanced analysis. An indispensable guide to understanding the multiple complexities of India today.�  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNiraja Gopal Jayal, Jawaharlal Nehru University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e�A crisply written account of key issues in the study of contemporary India. It will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students alike.�  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRob Jenkins, City University of New York\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIndia has been catapulted to the centre of world attention. Its rapidly growing economy, new geo-political confidence, and global cultural influence have ensured that people across the world recognise India as one of the main sites of social dynamism in the early twenty-first century.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, research leaders John Harriss, Craig Jeffrey and Trent Brown explore in depth the economic, social, and political changes occurring in India today, and their implications for the people of India and the world. Each of the book’s fourteen chapters seeks to answer a key question: Is India’s democracy under threat? Can India’s Growth be sustained? How are youth changing India? Drawing on a wealth of scholarly and popular material as well as their own experience researching the country during this period of major transformation, the authors draw the reader into key debates about economic growth, poverty, environmental justice, the character of Indian democracy, rights and social movements, gender, caste, education, and foreign policy. India, they conclude, has undergone some extraordinary and positive changes since the early 1990s but deeply worrying threats remain: increasing authoritarianism, growing inequality, entrenched poverty, and environmental vulnerability. How India responds to these crucial challenges will shape the world’s largest democracy for years to come.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAbout the Authors \u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Making Sense of Twenty-First-Century India\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2 Past and Present\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3 The Impact of Colonialism in India\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4 The Invention of Modern India\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.5 The Reinvention of India\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: Economy and Environment\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 When and Why Has India’s Economic Growth Accelerated?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1 Introduction: Thinking About Economic Growth\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2 India’s History of Economic Growth\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3 Economic Growth 1950–1992: A Story of Failure?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4 India’s ‘Economic Reforms’ and Growth in 1993–2001\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.5 ‘Superfast’ Growth, Slowdown and Questionable Recovery: 2002–2015\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.6 Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 How ‘Inclusive’ is India’s Economic Growth?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 Introduction: Economic Growth and ‘Development’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 Constructions and Measurements of Poverty\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 Poverty Trends in India\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4 Durable Inequalities in Indian Society, Mobility and the Missing Middle Class\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5 Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Why Isn’t India Doing Better at Realizing ‘Inclusive Growth’?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 Introduction: The Pattern of India’s Economic Growth\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 Has the Growth Process Ignored Indian Agriculture?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3 ‘Jobless Growth’, ‘Excluded Labour’ and ‘Make in India’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4 Conclusion: Binding Economic and Social Constraints\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Can India’s Economic Growth Be Reconciled with Sustainability and Environmental Justice?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 Introduction: The Costs of Environmental Degradation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 The Environment and Development Debate: Must Growth Come First?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3 Environmental Conflicts: Capital, State, Civil Society and People\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4 Environmental Policy and the Practice of Regulation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5 Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two: Politics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Has India Become the Hindu Rashtra?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1 Introduction: ‘God Man’ to Government\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2 The RSS, the BJP and the Struggle for Hindutva\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3 Temples, Gods and Gurus: Banal Hinduism, Banal Hindutva\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.4 Banal Hindutva, Communal Violence and the State\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.5 Hindutva Rising\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.6 Authoritarian Populism and the Indian Case\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.7 Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Is India’s Democracy at Risk?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2 India as a Formal Democracy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3 India as Substantive Democracy 1947–2014\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4 Substantive Democratization Since 2014\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.5 Conclusions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Why Hasn’t Democracy Made Indian Governments More Responsive?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.1 Introduction: Economic and Social Rights and the Indian Constitution\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2 The ‘New Rights Agenda’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3 From Rights Legislation to Implementation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4 Social Rights under the First Modi Government\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.5 How Government Works\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.6 Conclusions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Is There a Countermovement against Neoliberalism in India?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1 Introduction: Polanyi’s Idea of the ‘Double Movement’ and India Today\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2 Towards Social Movement Unionism?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3 Rural Struggles: Agrarian Crisis, and the ‘New’ Land Question\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4 Middle-Class Activism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.5 Conclusions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three: Society\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Is India Witnessing a Social Revolution?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.2 What is the Social Revolution?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.3 Cultural Renaissance\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4 Growing Prominence of Civil Society\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.5 Constraints on India’s Social Revolution\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.6 Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 Does Caste Still Matter in India?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.1 Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.2 Caste in Mid-Twentieth-Century India\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.3 The Decline of Caste Hierarchies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.4 Caste, Identity and Politics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.5 Caste as Habitus: Hierarchy Revisited\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.6 Conclusions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Why Does Gender Inequality Persist in India?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12.1 Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.2 Gender Relations and the Family\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.3 Gender Inequality in Education and the Workplace\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.4 Politicizing Gender Inequality\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.5 Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13 Can Youth Transform India?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.1 Introduction: Ideas about ‘Youth’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.2 School Education\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.3 Higher Education\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.4 Unemployment\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.5 The Politics of Youth Unemployment\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.6 Conclusions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e14 Afterword: Is India Now a ‘Leading Power’?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14.1 Introduction: India’s Transformations and the International Arena\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14.2 Coming in from the Margins: India in the World in the Late Twentieth 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