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Democracy, development, and decentralisation in India : continuing debates / editors, Chandan Sengupta, Stuart Corbridge ; foreword by Anthony Giddens.

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Economic reform in India has largely taken place at a time of assertive cultural nationalism and growing pressures for advancement and assertion from within India's subaltern communities. This book explores the mainsprings, contours and consequences of democratisation, decentralisation and deve...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Corporate Authors: London School of Economics and Political Science. Development Studies Institute, Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Centre for Development Studies
Other Authors: Sengupta, Chandan (Editor), Corbridge, Stuart (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi ; Abingdon : Routledge, 2010.
Subjects:
Democracy > India > Congresses.
India > Economic policy > Congresses.
Decentralization in government > India > Congresses.
Decentralization in government.
Democracy.
Economic policy.
India.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Chandan Sengupta and Stuart Corbridge
  • Equality or inclusion : the dilemma of India's democracy / Meghnad Desai
  • Burden of exception : deficits and deepening of democratic development in India / Chandan Sengupta
  • The continuing reinvention of India / John Harriss and Stuart Corbridge
  • Development as freedom and justice : an essay on Sen and Rawls / Parthasarathi Mondal
  • Framing the development debate : the case of farmer's suicide in India / Ritambhara Hebbar
  • Institutional credit and economic entitlement : emerging regional and sectoral divides in Maharashtra / Abdul Shaban
  • Fiscal decentralisation and urban local governments in India : an empirical review / Anita Rath
  • Decentralisation, women's rights and development : lessons from India and South Africa / Jo Beall
  • Social divisions and rural non-farm sector : lessons from India / Gaurang R. Sahay
  • Development and change in agrarian economy : aspects of rural non-farm sector in Andhra Pradesh, India / Perumula Gopinath
  • Privatising social opportunity : trends and implications for higher education in India / Anindita Chakrabarti
  • Healthcare services and development in India : a study of reproductive health in Jharkhand / P.M. Sandhya Rani
  • Public intervention, institutions and human development in India : theory and evidence / Sandhya S. Iyer.

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