| Description |
1 online resource (615 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Editor -- Contributors -- 1 Contemporary India: Foundation, Relations, Diversity, Religions and Change -- Part I: Foundation -- 2 Partitioning India: Dreams, Memories, and Legacies -- 3 Social Change, Transition to Democracy and its Consolidation in India: Symbiosis and Resilience -- 4 Foundations for a Sustainable Growth: India's Constitution and its Supreme Court -- 5 Economic Foundation of India -- 6 Equity, Quantity and Quality: The Precarious Balancing Act in India's Schools |
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7 Agriculture and the Development Burden -- 8 From Composite Nationalism to Hindu Majoritarianism: India's Transition -- Part II: India and the World -- 9 Politics, Security and Foreign Policy -- 10 Is India a South Asian or an Asian Power? -- 11 India's Role as a Global Development Partner -- 12 Dispersals, Migrations, the Notion of an Indian Diaspora and the Diversity of Communities -- 13 Matters that Matter: Material Religion in Contemporary Hinduism -- 14 International Networks Supporting Hindutva -- 15 Yoga and Physical Culture: Transnational History and Blurred Discursive Contexts |
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Part III: Society, Class, Caste and Gender -- 16 The Politics of Economic Reforms in India -- 17 Divided we Stand: The Indian City After Economic Liberalization -- 18 India's Middle Classes in Contemporary India -- 19 Caste: Why does it Still Matter? -- 20 Hindutva and Hygiene: Swachh Bharat Mission as an Urban Spatial Purification Project -- 21 Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Modern India: History, Patronage and the Moral Politics of Anti-Colonialism -- 22 Regional Perspective: Gujarat and the Contradictory Co-Existence of Economic Enterprise and Political Illiberalism |
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23 Intimate Spaces of Struggle: Rethinking Family and Marriage in Contemporary India -- 24 Adivasis and Contemporary India: Engagements with the State, Non-State Actors, and the Capitalist Economy -- Part IV: Religion and Diversity -- 25 Myth as History and History as Myth: The Instructive Case of India -- 26 Hindu Pilgrimage Sites and Travel: Infrastructure, Economy, Identity and Conflicts -- 27 Death of the Sacred: Cow, Caste and Dalit Politics in India -- 28 Hindutva Becoming in the Northeast of India -- 29 Ambedkar's Life and his Navayana Buddhism |
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30 Religion, Identity and Empowerment: The Making of Ravidassia Dharm (Dalit Religion) in Contemporary Punjab -- 31 Muslims in Contemporary India: Socio-Religious Diversity and the Questions of Citizenship -- 32 India's Muslim Minority: Religious Violence and why India's Crime Statistics Cannot Be Trusted -- 33 Christians in India: Living on the Margins with a Diverse and Controversial Past -- Part V: Cultural Change and Innovations -- 34 'We Too Have the Sun': Literatures From the Adivasi and Dalit Communities of East India |
| Summary |
This revised and updated new edition of the Handbook concentrates on India as it emerged after the economic reforms and the new economic policy of the 1980s and 1990s and as it develops in the twenty-first century |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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35 Combative Constructions of Femininity in the Late Twentieth-Century Narratives of India |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000984231 |
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1000984230 |
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