Examining the processes of state formation and consolidation, and the erosion of the post-colonial state, this book highlights three themes: the constraints of modernization; the contradictory logic of modernization vis-a-vis assertive political identities; and the politics of the governed and the battle for equal status at the level of the state. It sees the present crisis of the Indian state as a direct result of the post-colonial state's inability to grapple with the social and multicultural realities of the Indian polity, thus making way for various religious, caste and regional frictions to surface. INDICE: Introduction - Zoya Hasan The Political Career of the State in Independent IndiaPART ONE: STATE BUILDINGThe Modern State in India - Sudipta KavirajDevelopment Planning and the Indian State - Partha ChatterjeePART TWO: STRUCTURES OF DOMINANCEA Marxist Approach to Understanding the Indian State - Achin VanaikThe State in India's Economic Development - Prabhat PatnaikThe Political Economy of Reform in India - Pranab BardhanThe Decline of the Moderate State - Rajni KothariCentralization and Powerlessness - Atul Kohli India's Democracy in a Comparative PerspectiveDecline of a Social Order - Francine FrankelPART THREE: STATE PROCESSESChanging Terms of Elite Discourse - D.L. Sheth The Case of Reservation for 'Other Backward Classes'Gender Politics, Legal Reform and the Muslim Community in India - Zoya Hasan'I am the Government Labour Officer...' - Jan Breman State Protection for the Rural Proletariat of South GujaratBlurred Boundaries - Akhil Gupta The Discourse of Corruption, the Culture of Politics and the Imagined State
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