Diversity and Change in Modern India: Economic, Social and Political Approaches
Anthony F. Heath and Roger Jeffery
Abstract
India's society, economy, and polity have been transformed at a gathering pace since the early 1990s, and India's growing role on the world stage makes it imperative to understand the roots and consequences of these changes. The eleven chapters in this interdisciplinary volume review the growing body of data that help to make sense of these changes and to understand their likely significance. The volume provides systematic, macro-level studies of economic, demographic, social, and political change in India but also micro-level analyses of the detailed mechanisms ‘on the ground’ of how Indian s ... More
India's society, economy, and polity have been transformed at a gathering pace since the early 1990s, and India's growing role on the world stage makes it imperative to understand the roots and consequences of these changes. The eleven chapters in this interdisciplinary volume review the growing body of data that help to make sense of these changes and to understand their likely significance. The volume provides systematic, macro-level studies of economic, demographic, social, and political change in India but also micro-level analyses of the detailed mechanisms ‘on the ground’ of how Indian society is being re-shaped. This combination of micro- and macro-level analyses thus gives a picture not only of national trends but also of the underlying processes of change. Each of the chapters showcases the fruits of previously unpublished scholarship across the social sciences.
Keywords:
Indian society,
Indian economy,
Indian politics,
Oliver Heath,
Yogendra Yadav,
electoral change,
independence,
modern India,
Patricia Jeffery,
Roger Jeffery
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780197264515 |
| Published to British Academy Scholarship Online: January 2012 |
DOI:10.5871/bacad/9780197264515.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Anthony F. Heath, editor
Professor of Sociology, University of Oxford; Fellow of the British Academy
Roger Jeffery, editor
Professor of Sociology of South Asia, University of Edinburgh
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