250 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
250 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
Fully updated and expanded throughout, this second edition of Contemporary India: The Basics provides readers with a clear and accessible guide through the richness, diversity, and complexity of modern-day India.
This essential second edition highlights the changes that contemporary India has undergone over the last five years or so, including the following: • An analysis of the 2024 general... Read more
Preface and Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 Discovering India
3 India’s “argumentative culture”: Democratic institutions and the party system
4 “A million mutinies”: State-society relations in India
5 India’s economy “unbound”: From state control to liberalization
6 “Mother of a hundred sons” no more: The changing status of women
7 Is India still “an emerging power”?: An overview of foreign relations
8 Toward “a better world”: Impact of India’s soft power
Bibliography
Index
1 Introduction
2 Discovering India
3 India’s “argumentative culture”: Democratic institutions and the party system
4 “A million mutinies”: State-society relations in India
5 India’s economy “unbound”: From state control to liberalization
6 “Mother of a hundred sons” no more: The changing status of women
7 Is India still “an emerging power”?: An overview of foreign relations
8 Toward “a better world”: Impact of India’s soft power
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Rekha Datta, PhD, holds the Freed Endowed Chair in Social Sciences and is Professor of Political Science at Monmouth University, USA. Formerly, she served as Interim Provost and Senior Vice President for academic affairs and was the Founding Director of the Institute for Global Understanding at Monmouth University. Datta has authored and edited several books and professional journal articles and more than a dozen book chapters in edited volumes. She was awarded a United States Senior Fulbright Scholar award for research and teaching in 2017–18.
