Map of India -- 1. Democracy and Development: The State-Society Approach -- 2. Nationalism, Democracy, and Development: The Making of a "Weak-Strong State" -- 3. Rural Development During the Nehru Era: Limits to Reform and Redistribution -- 4. The State, Public Policy, and Agricultural Modernization -- 5. Contradictions of the Green Revolution: Growth Without Redistribution -- 6. The New Agrarianism and Rural Development -- 7. Democracy, Neoliberalism, and Development with Equity: India in Comparative Perspective
Summary
"This broad, historically grounded study examines the relationship between democratic governance and economic development in postindependence India (1947-1998). Sharma addresses the fundamental paradox of India's political economy: Why have five decades of democratically guided strategies failed to reconcile economic growth with redistribution or to mitigate the condition of extreme poverty in which some 350 to 400 million Indians - more than 40 percent of the population - live?"--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-268) and index
