Nikhil Menon

Planning Democracy (eBook, ePUB)

Modern India's Quest for Development

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Indian planning project was one of the postcolonial world's most ambitious experiments. Planning Democracy explores how India fused Soviet-inspired economic management and Western-style liberal democracy at a time when they were widely considered fundamentally contradictory. After nearly two centuries of colonial rule, planning was meant to be independent India's route to prosperity. In this engaging and innovative account, Nikhil Menon traces how planning built India's knowledge infrastructure and data capacities, while also shaping the nature of its democracy. He analyses the challenges inherent in harmonizing technocratic methods with democratic mandates and shows how planning was the language through which the government's aspirations for democratic state-building were expressed. Situating India within international debates about economic policy and Cold War ideology, Menon reveals how India walked a tightrope between capitalism and communism which heightened the drama of its development on the global stage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009050357
• Artikelnr.: 66176531

Autorenporträt

Nikhil Menon is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Data: 1. A Nation in Numbers
2. Calcutta Conquers Delhi
3. Chasing Computers
Part II. Democracy?: 4. Help the Plan¿Help Yourself
5. Salvation in Service
Epilogue
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index.