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Re-forming India
India's social and political landscape has, in recent times, witnessed many significant transformations. This book offers a wide-ranging review of how India has, over the last few years, fared on the most critical dimensions of our collective life-politics, economy, governance, development, culture and society.
The project of change entailed processes of both reform and if reform was about correcting or improving what was considered unsatisfactory, re-formation was a bolder project that aimed to construct anew, anchored in a fundamental re-visioning of India in social, cultural and even moral terms. In many ways, the programme of re-forming India may have outpaced that of reforming India and even exceeded its own expectations.
This volume provides an overview of the prevailing political imaginary of nationalism and of the current trends of public discourse in Indian democracy; it seeks to identify and interpret the transformations in state institutions and the public sphere and evaluate their implications for the future.
Re-Forming India brings together reflections, from leading commentators in their fields, on some of these transformations-from the promise of economic revival and demonetization to the impact on gender relations, higher education and the media. Has the country been transformed in ways that were promised? Or indeed in other ways that had not been anticipated? With essays from Smita Gupta, Ashok K. Lahiri, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Indira Rajaraman, Radhicka Kapoor, Prem Shankar Jha, Harish Damodaran, A. K. Bhattacharya, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Yamini Aiyar, Yogendra Yadav, Diane Coffey, Anirudh Krishna, Navroz K. Dubash, Shibani Ghosh, Madhav Khosla, Ramachandra Guha, Srinath Raghavan, Ashutosh Varshney, Suhas Palshikar, Anand Teltumbde, Pratiksha Baxi, Amitabh Behar, Sanjay Srivastava, Surinder S. Jodhka, Ravindra Karnena, Niraja Gopal Jayal, Gautam Bhatia (lawyer), Ravish Kumar, Taberez Ahmed Neyazi, Neera Chandhoke, Apoorvanand, Gautam Bhatia (architect), Siddhartha Chatterjee and Chandrika Grover Ralleigh.
The project of change entailed processes of both reform and if reform was about correcting or improving what was considered unsatisfactory, re-formation was a bolder project that aimed to construct anew, anchored in a fundamental re-visioning of India in social, cultural and even moral terms. In many ways, the programme of re-forming India may have outpaced that of reforming India and even exceeded its own expectations.
This volume provides an overview of the prevailing political imaginary of nationalism and of the current trends of public discourse in Indian democracy; it seeks to identify and interpret the transformations in state institutions and the public sphere and evaluate their implications for the future.
Re-Forming India brings together reflections, from leading commentators in their fields, on some of these transformations-from the promise of economic revival and demonetization to the impact on gender relations, higher education and the media. Has the country been transformed in ways that were promised? Or indeed in other ways that had not been anticipated? With essays from Smita Gupta, Ashok K. Lahiri, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Indira Rajaraman, Radhicka Kapoor, Prem Shankar Jha, Harish Damodaran, A. K. Bhattacharya, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Yamini Aiyar, Yogendra Yadav, Diane Coffey, Anirudh Krishna, Navroz K. Dubash, Shibani Ghosh, Madhav Khosla, Ramachandra Guha, Srinath Raghavan, Ashutosh Varshney, Suhas Palshikar, Anand Teltumbde, Pratiksha Baxi, Amitabh Behar, Sanjay Srivastava, Surinder S. Jodhka, Ravindra Karnena, Niraja Gopal Jayal, Gautam Bhatia (lawyer), Ravish Kumar, Taberez Ahmed Neyazi, Neera Chandhoke, Apoorvanand, Gautam Bhatia (architect), Siddhartha Chatterjee and Chandrika Grover Ralleigh.
400 pages, Hardcover
Published February 15, 2019
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October 9, 2020
A good anthology about the governance, policy and politics of the first term of Modi government in india, specifically 2014-2018. At times it is repetitive as is the case with most anthologies.
The book is divided in 2 parts. While the first mainly deals with the style of governance of PM Modi, centralization of major decisions in govt, his economic policies, demonetization, GST, different welfare schemes and the stance on welfare schemes, judiciary under the govt, the different democratic institutions and media-govt complex, the latter mainly raises the concerns about the attack on minorities and biggest religious minority, the propaganda, the fault lines in the views of general zeitgeist around secularism, attack on secularism, colleges, universaties, civil societies, international NGOs.
The articles are well-written by experts, reflective of the non-partisan nature of their writing, sometimes using words and phrases that are more of a reflection of writer's tendency to show off. Some articles were just not needed, some could be clubbed together. This book is quite conclusive in its analysis, filled with data from public institutions and news reports.
There conclusions on all the matters may invoke a feeling based on where your affiliations lie but it is certainly a very much required reading no matter what.
The book is divided in 2 parts. While the first mainly deals with the style of governance of PM Modi, centralization of major decisions in govt, his economic policies, demonetization, GST, different welfare schemes and the stance on welfare schemes, judiciary under the govt, the different democratic institutions and media-govt complex, the latter mainly raises the concerns about the attack on minorities and biggest religious minority, the propaganda, the fault lines in the views of general zeitgeist around secularism, attack on secularism, colleges, universaties, civil societies, international NGOs.
The articles are well-written by experts, reflective of the non-partisan nature of their writing, sometimes using words and phrases that are more of a reflection of writer's tendency to show off. Some articles were just not needed, some could be clubbed together. This book is quite conclusive in its analysis, filled with data from public institutions and news reports.
There conclusions on all the matters may invoke a feeling based on where your affiliations lie but it is certainly a very much required reading no matter what.
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