This volume examines critical issues in contemporary India, from evolving politics and citizenship questions to contentious land acquisitions and new welfare policies.
This volume examines some of the most critical issues facing contemporary India. From the changing manifestations of national and state politics to questions of citizenship; from fraught land acquisitions for development to new welfare policies; from gender rights to labour rights, this book brings to the fore the tensions and the innovations that have come to be an integral part of everyday India. The essays in the volume critically address the transformations of the Indian state in the twenty-first century and trace their roots in contemporary history.
A timely intervention engaging with urgent concerns, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics, especially political economy, South Asian studies, and public policy.
Arvustused
This volume appears to be a collection of really interesting research on political and social change in post-liberalization India.
--Surupa Gupta,
Professor of Political science & International Relations,
University of Mary Washington
This is a wide-angled exploration of the democratic improvements, setbacks, and paradoxes that have unfolded in India since the 1991 economic reforms. Such discussions are indispensable for anyone trying to understand Indias long-term political development in its own terms.
Kathinka Frøystad,
Professor of Modern South Asian Studies,
University of Oslo
Preface by Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Introduction: What is New India and How More Democratic is it?
Pratick Mallick
Chapter 1
Hindutva and Caste based Reservation: Debate, Discourse and Dilemma
Ayan Guha
Chapter 2
Women and the Nation in Hindu Nationalism
Proma Raychaudhury
Chapter 3
Eminent Domain, Development and Land Acquisitions for SEZs in Contemporary
India
Meenakshi Gogoi
Chapter 4
Decoding Modis New Welfarism: Populist rhetoric or substantive
empowerment?
Ambar Kumar Ghosh
Chapter 5
Critical Analysis of the Post-370 Elections in Kashmir
Abhinav Pandya
Chapter 6
Between Two Giants: The Transformation of the Governance Landscape of
Arunachal Pradesh
Shubhanginee Singh
Chapter 7
Democracy, Identity and Citizenship: Perceptions from Indias Northeast
Biplab Debnath & Dipikanta Chakraborty
Chapter 8
Politics of Cultural Misrecognitions and the Rise of Identity Consolidations
in Post Left West Bengal
Suman Nath
Chapter 9
Citizenship Amendment Rules, 2024 and the Re-emergence of the Citizenship
Conundrum
Ayan Guha
Chapter 10
Exporting the Democratic Norms: Issues and Contestations in Indias Global
and Regional Approaches
Biplab Debnath
Chapter 11
Positioning Odisha's Neoliberal Transformation within a Historical Framework
Saumya Ranjan Nath
Pratick Mallick is a doctoral candidate at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India. He is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Acharya Prafulla Chandra College, New Barrackpore, Kolkata, India. His research interests are in social and political anthropology and social economics of the subaltern middle classes of India.
