Democratic Governance in India

'[Democratic Governance in India] is a useful aid to understanding society and politics in contemporary India' - Democratization 'This book...should generate great interest among a large consituency of the students of democratic theory, public policy and institutional arrangements' - Subrata K Mitra, Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics Concentrating on the increase in Indian assertions of identity and their political mobilization, and the economic reforms of 1991, this book looks at the actors in the governance process, and at policies and programmes of poverty reduction. It covers the politics of identity, the impact of the nation state by globalization and political identity, the role of 'identities' versus 'interests' in the course of development, the upsurge of caste-based identity; and the limitations of the Dalit movement.

ISBN 0761995560   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780761995562 (What's this?)   Pages 264 Publisher Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd   Volumes 1 Imprint Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd   Weight (grammes) 431 Format Hardback   Published in New Delhi Publication date 14 Nov 2001   Height (mm) 216 Non-book description 264 p. ;   Width (mm) 140 Library of Congress JQ231.D36   Spine width (mm) 19 DEWEY 320.954   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		List of Tables		7
		Preface and Acknowledgements		8
Pt. I		Governance, Poverty, and Development		9
		Introduction by Niraja Gopal Jayal and Sudha Pai		11
1		The State, Poverty, and Development in India by Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik		32
2		Political Authority, Public Deliberation, and the Politics of Poverty Reduction by Bob Currie		66
3		Strengthening Bureaucracy: State and Development in India by Kuldeep Mathur		109
4		Reinventing the State: The Emergence of Alternative Models of Governance in India in the 1990s by Niraja Gopal Jayal		132
Pt. II		The Politics of Identity		151
5		Radical Politics in the Times of Globalization: Notes on Recent Indian Experience by Aditya Nigam		153
6		State, Market, and Democracy in the 1990s: Liberalization and the Politics of Oriya Identity by Jayanta Sengupta		179
7		The State, Social Justice, and the Dalit Movement: The BSP in Uttar Pradesh by Sudha Pai		201
8		Dalit Politics: Has it Reached an Impasse? by Ghanshyam Shah		221
9		Dalit Traditions and Dalit Consciousness by Eleanor Zelliot		232
		About the Editors and Contributors		253
		Index		256

'[Democratic Governance in India] is a useful aid to understanding society and politics in contemporary India' - Democratization 'This book... should generate great interest among a large consituency of the students of democratic theory, public policy and institutional arrangements' - Subrata K Mitra, Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics

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