Politics and the State in India Book

Introduction - Zoya Hasan The Political Career of the State in Independent India PART ONE: STATE BUILDING The Modern State in India - Sudipta Kaviraj Development Planning and the Indian State - Partha Chatterjee PART TWO: STRUCTURES OF DOMINANCE A Marxist Approach to Understanding the Indian State - Achin Vanaik The State in India's Economic Development - Prabhat Patnaik The Political Economy of Reform in India - Pranab Bardhan The Decline of the Moderate State - Rajni Kothari Centralization and Powerlessness - Atul Kohli India's Democracy in a Comparative Perspective Decline of a Social Order - Francine Frankel PART THREE: STATE PROCESSES Changing Terms of Elite Discourse - D.L. Sheth The Case of Reservation for 'Other Backward Classes'
Gender Politics, Legal Reform and the Muslim Community in India - Zoya Hasan
'I am the Government Labour Officer...' - Jan Breman State Protection for the Rural Proletariat of South Gujarat Blurred Boundaries - Akhil Gupta The Discourse of Corruption, the Culture of Politics and the Imagined State