{"product_id":"crisis-and-change-in-contemporary-india","title":"Crisis and Change in Contemporary India","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Upendra Baxi\u003cbr\u003eBhikhu Parekh\/\u003cbr\u003eEditor(s): Upendra Baxi \/ Bhikhu Parekh\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Sage Publications\u003cbr\u003eYear: 1998\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 453\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8170364108\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndia is passing through anxious times.  The current policy of economic liberalization, notwithstanding its obvious advantages, has the potential to unleash social tensions. This volume of original essays addresses this and related issues.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile the recent challenges to secularism have given rise to grave political problems. These developments underscore the need for a critical look at the constitutive principles and the current predicament of Indian polity and society. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first four essays critically analyses the contributions of Gandhi, Nehru and Ambedkar, the founding fathers of modern India, to Indian political, and social transformation. The evolution of India’s post-Independence polity, the formation of civic loyalty, the primordial politics of language and the crisis of governability in contemporary India form the second thematic cluster. The third group of contributors deal with communal riots and the problem of religious and secular identities in the framework of the construction of modernity. Issues relating to community and public health, the need for developing a new paradigm of critical psychology, a psychological under-standing of the practice of power in contemporary India and the eco-politics of development activities are dealt with by the last set of essays.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBringing together internationally distinguished observers of India-who express a variety of viewpoints, cover a fascinating range of themes, and raise issues of both academic and practical importance-this book will be of considerable interest to students of politics, sociology, history, psychology, health, environment, development and south Asian Studies. It will be indispensable for anyone concerned about contemporary India.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJawaharlal Nehru and the Crisis of Modernisation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Doctrine of Swaraj in Gandhi’s Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGandhi: Guru for the 1990s?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGandhi, Nehru, and Modernity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmancipation as Justice: Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Legacy and Vision\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInterpreting Indian Politics: A Personal Statement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCivil Loyalty and the New India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Great Language Debate: Politics of Metropolitan \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCrowds and Power: Democracy and the Crisis of Governability in India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePersonality Politics: A Psychoanalytic Perspective \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Politics of Application and Social Relevance in Contemporary Psychology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Health Scenario in India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReligion, Scenario in India \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReligion, Politics and Modernity \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReligious and Secular Identities\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCultural Embodiment and Histories: Towards Construction of Self\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCommunal Riots in Contemporary India: Towards a Sociological Explanation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Sardar Sarovar Project: Ecopolitics of Development\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaojibhai Patel (Mota): an Appreciation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Upendra Baxi \/ Sage Publications \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153563677040,"sku":"7808","price":40.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/7808.jpg?v=1793911196","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/crisis-and-change-in-contemporary-india","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}