Dilip Hiro

Inside India Today (Routledge Revivals)

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on personal interviews, conducted during his two years' travels throughout the country collecting a mass of first hand evidence, and on various surveys and studies published in the press, the Dilip Hiro sketches a broad portrait of Indian life in the villages and cities. Written in an accessible, engaging style and containing a wealth of information and insight, Inside India Today is a major contribution towards the scholarship surrounding this complex and fascinating country.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780415835046
• ISBN-10: 0415835046
• Artikelnr.: 41668425

Autorenporträt

Dilip Hiro

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Introduction; Part I: Life in India: A Report 1. Village India 2.
Urban India 3. A Corrupt Society; Part II: Politics and Economics of
Centrism 4. Present political-administrative structure 5. Electoral
politics 6. The Congress Party: facing both ways 7. The Congress
Government: the unfulfilled plans 8. Agrarian relations: the half-hearted
reform 9. Industrial policies: 'socialistic' capitalism 10. Trade unions:
divide and rule; Part III: Leftist Forces 11. The Communist movement:
before 1964 12. The Communist movement: after 1964 13. Extra-parliamentary
Communists 14. West-Bengal: revolution and counter-revolution; Part IV:
Rightist Forces 15. Rightest forces: political 16. Rightist forces:
institutional; Part V: Resilience of the System 17. The internal strains
18. Internal strength and external support 19. A 'constitutional' coup: an
act of desperation 20. The future: a leftist advance ahead; Postscript;
Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.