Democracy, Development and Decentralisation in India: Continuing Debates

By Stuart Corbridge

Book Overview

Economic reform in India has largely coincided with 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 development in India and offers new insights into its contemporary political economy. It examines the reasons of unequal patterns of economic growth and the impact of the system on processes of economic development. The volume make key theoretical interventions to the continuing debates on democracy and development in India. This edition includes a new Afterword that connects these to the political developments resulting from the 2014 general elections, and delineates the shifts in the country's political patterns in recent years. This timely and topical book will be of great relevance to scholars and students of development studies, governance and public policy, South Asia studies, comparative politics and sociology, as well as the interested general reader. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138842389
• ISBN13: 9781138842380
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Routledge India
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 9.0"