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Reading India

Selections from The Economic and Political Weekly, volume II (1966–1991)

Gurpreet Mahajan, Surinder S. Jodhka and Ila Patnaik (Eds.)

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Imprint	Orient BlackSwan
Year of Publishing	2019
Number of pages	486
ISBN	9789352877492
Format	Paperback
Language	English
Dimensions	158 x 240 mm
Series	Reading India
Catalogue(s)	Economics, Political Science, Sociology

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Since 1966, when Economic Weekly formally expanded its mission and became the Economic and Political Weekly, it has been a significant space for critical, constructive and innovative thinking on political, social and economic issues.

Reading India, Vol. II, the second of the three volumes commemorating 50 years of the EPW, brings together a selection of articles from 1966-1991. Divided into three fields of inquiry—the political, social and economic—it presents an analysis of the issues and concerns that dominated this period, and in some ways, shaped the discourse of the following decades.

The first section, dealing with politics, focuses on two concerns of this period - democracy and equality. The essays examine issues related to:

political representation,
electoral processes,
policies of reservation,
inter-caste and inter-religious conflict,
status of women, and
measurement of poverty.

The second section takes up the concerns highlighted by sociologists and social anthropologists:

the changing Indian family,
rural leadership patterns,
economic and social changes taking place in India’s rural economy,
affirmative action and the marginalisation of religious minorities.

The final section showcases trends in economic thinking during this period, which questioned the economic policies of the era and shaped the direction and nature of the post-1991 reforms. Together, this collection presents analysis, research and debates that are relevant even today for understanding India.

The Author(s)

Gurpreet Mahajan is Professor, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Surinder S. Jodhka is Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Ila Patnaik is Professor, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP).

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Gurpreet Mahajan, Ila Patnaik and Surinder S. Jodhka

PART I: POLITICS
1. India’s Political Transition
Rajni Kothari
2. Social Background of the Indian Cabinet
Satish K. Arora
3. Electoral Participation of Minorities and Indian Political System
Moin Shakir
4. Compensatory Discrimination in Political Representation: A Preliminary Assessment of India’s 30-year Experience with Reserved Seats in Legislatures
Marc Galanter
5. Social Mobility and Caste Violence: A Study of the Gujarat Riots
Pradip Kumar Bose
6. Communal Violence in India: A Study of Communal Disturbance in Delhi
Gopal Krishna
7. Biology and Gender Bias: Some Issues in Discrimination against Women at the Workplace
Vimal Balasubrahmanyan
8. Measurement of Poverty and Undernutrition
D. Banerji

PART II: SOCIETY
9. Changes in the Indian Family: An Examination of Some Assumptions
A. M. Shah
10. Strains in Leadership Structure: From Status Group to Pluralism in East UP Village
Hira Singh
11. Semi-Feudalism or Capitalism? Contemporary Debate on Classes and Modes of Production in India
Alice Thorner
12. The Indian Institute of Technology: Do They Contribute to Social Mobility?
C. Rajagopalan and Jaspal Singh
13. Transformation of Tribal Society: Integration vs. Assimilation
K. S. Singh
14. A “Harijan Elite”? The Lives of Some Untouchable Politicians
Oliver Mendelsohn
15. Women’s Studies: New Perceptions and the Challenges
Vina Mazumdar and Kumud Sharma
16. The Communalising of Punjab, 1980-85
Dipankar Gupta
17. The Ideology of Population Control
Mahmood Mamdani
18. Migration, Urbanisation and Interregional Inequality: The Emerging Sociopolitical Challenge
Amitabh Kundu

PART III: ECONOMY
19. Controls and the Current Situation: Why Not Let the Hounds Run?
Arun Shourie
20. Indian Development Strategy: Some Comments
Jagdish Bhagwati and T. N. Srinivasan
21. Industrial Growth in the 1980s: Emerging Policy Issues
Vijay L. Kelkar and Rajiv Kumar
22. MNCs and Export Development
C. K. Prahalad
23. On Benefits of Tapping Foreign Portfolio Investments: An Indian Perspective
Vihang R. Errunza
24. Financial Scenario of the 1990s: Agenda for Reform
N. A. Mujumdar
25. Federal Fiscal Transfers in India: Performance of Six Finance Commissions
M. Govinda Rao

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Reading India

Selections from The Economic and Political Weekly, volume II (1966–1991)

Gurpreet Mahajan, Surinder S. Jodhka and Ila Patnaik (Eds.)

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