Author: Vijendra Kasturi Ranga Varadaraja RaoPublisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Indian Socialism
Author: Vijendra Kasturi Ranga Varadaraja RaoPublisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Crisis of India
Author: Ronald SegalPublisher: London : Cape
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Thirsty Cities
Author: Selina HoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108427820
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Provides the answer to the enduring puzzle why India lags behind China in offering public goods to its people.
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and the Question of Socialism in India
Author: V. GeethaPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030803759
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This book offers a reading of Bhimrao Ambedkar’s engagement with the idea and practice of socialism in India by linking it to his lifelong political and philosophical concerns: the annihilation of the caste system, untouchability and the moral and philosophical systems that justify either. Rather than view his ideas through a socialist lens, the author suggests that it is important to measure the validity of socialist thought and practice in the Indian context, through his critique of the social totality. The book argues its case by presenting a broad and connected overview of his thought world and the global and local influences that shaped it. The themes that are taken up for discussion include: his understanding of the colonial rule and the colonial state; history and progress; nationalism and the questions he posed the socialists; his radical critique of the caste system and Brahmancal philosophies, and his unusual interpretation of Buddhism.
Crisis and Predation
Author: The Research Unit for Political EconomyPublisher: Monthly Review Press
ISBN: 1583679243
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
How India's COVID-19 lockdown is creating an unprecedented humanitarian disaster With the advent of COVID-19, India’s rulers imposed the world’s most stringent lockdown on an already depressed economy, dealing a body blow to the majority of India’s billion-plus population. Yet the Indian government’s spending to cushion the lockdown’s economic impact ranked among the world’s lowest in GDP terms, resulting in unprecedented unemployment and hardship. Crisis and Predation shows how this tight-fistedness stems from the fact that global financial interests oppose any sizable expansion of public spending by India, and that Indian rulers readily adhere to their guidance. The authors reveal that global investors and a handful of top Indian corporate groups actually benefit from the resulting demand depression: armed with funds, they are picking up valuable assets at distress prices. Meanwhile, under the banner of reviving private investment, India’s rulers have planned giant privatizations, and drastically revised laws concerning industrial labor, the peasantry, and the environment—in favor of large capital. And yet, this book contends, India could defy the pressures of global finance in order to address the basic needs of its people. But this would require shedding reliance on foreign capital flows, and taking a course of democratic national development. This, then, is a pursuit, not for India’s ruling classes, but a course of struggle for India's people.
The Indian National Congress and the Socialistic Pattern of Society
Author: Patricia McCullough FlanaganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
India
Author: Arvind PanagariyaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195315030
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The subject of India's rapid growth in the past two decades has become a prominent focus in the public eye. A book that documents this unique and unprecedented surge, and addresses the issues raised by it, is sorely needed. Arvind Panagariya fills that gap with this sweeping, ambitious survey. India: The Emerging Giant comprehensively describes and analyzes India's economic development since its independence, as well as its prospects for the future. The author argues that India's growth experience since its independence is unique among developing countries and can be divided into four periods, each of which is marked by distinctive characteristics: the post-independence period, marked by liberal policies with regard to foreign trade and investment, the socialist period during which Indira Ghandi and her son blocked liberalization and industrial development, a period of stealthy liberalization, and the most recent, openly liberal period. Against this historical background, Panagariya addresses today's poverty and inequality, macroeconomic policies, microeconomic policies, and issues that bear upon India's previous growth experience and future growth prospects. These provide important insights and suggestions for reform that should change much of the current thinking on the current state of the Indian economy. India: The Emerging Giant will attract a wide variety of readers, including academic economists, policy makers, and research staff in national governments and international institutions. It should also serve as a core text in undergraduate and graduate courses that deal with Indias economic development and policies.
Democracy and Development in India
Author: Atul KohliPublisher: OUP India
ISBN: 9780198068471
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The essays in this volume are organized thematically in three sections-political change; political economy; and politics and development in select states. The introductory essay acts as an 'umbrella' to these essays and represents twenty-five years of scholarly research by distinguished political scientist Atul Kohli.
Class Structure and Economic Growth
Author: Angus MaddisonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134561636
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The purpose of this study is to analyse the relationship between social structure and economic performance in India and Pakistan. It seeks to establish whether the social system had a significant dysfunctional role in hindering growth in the past, and whether the situation has changed since independence. It analyses the extent to which governments in office really tried to change the social structure and the degree to which their rhetorical commitments were constrained by the inertia of tradition and by the vested interests which inherited economic and social power.
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