ISBN:
9781315682570
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Routledge handbook of contemporary India
DDC:
306.0954
Keywords:
India - Social conditions
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Electronic books
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India Economic conditions
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India History Partition, 1947
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India Social conditions
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Contemporary India: foundation, relations, diversity and innovations -- Part I Foundation -- 1 Dreams, memories and legacies: partitioning India -- 2 Symbiosis and resilience: the dynamics of social change and transition to democracy in India -- 3 Foundations for a sustainable growth: India's Constitution and its Supreme Court -- 4 Economic foundation of India -- 5 Equity, quantity and quality: the precarious balancing act in India's schools -- 6 Agriculture and the development burden -- Part II India and the world -- 7 Politics, security and foreign policy -- 8 Is India a South Asian or an Asian power? -- 9 India's role as an international development actor -- 10 Dispersals, migrations, diversity of communities and the notion of an Indian diaspora -- 11 Yoga and physical culture: transnational history and blurred discursive contexts -- 12 Modernised Ayurveda in India and the West -- Part III Society, class, caste and gender -- 13 The politics of economic reforms in India -- 14 Divided we stand: the Indian city after economic liberalisation -- 15 India's middle classes in contemporary India -- 16 Caste: why does it still matter? -- 17 Corruption and anti-corruption in modern India: history, patronage and the moral politics of anti-colonialism -- 18 Regional perspective: Gujarat and the contradictory co-existence of economic enterprise and political illiberalism -- 19 Intimate spaces of struggle: rethinking family and marriage in contemporary India -- 20 Adivasis and contemporary India: engagements with the state, non-state actors and the capitalist economy -- Part IV Religion and diversity -- 21 Myth as history and history as myth: the instructive case of India.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of figures""; ""List of tables""; ""Notes on contributors""; ""Contemporary India: foundation, relations, diversity and innovations""; ""Part I Foundation""; ""1 Dreams, memories and legacies: partitioning India""; ""2 Symbiosis and resilience: the dynamics of social change and transition to democracy in India""; ""3 Foundations for a sustainable growth: India's Constitution and its Supreme Court""; ""4 Economic foundation of India""
Description / Table of Contents:
""5 Equity, quantity and quality: the precarious balancing act in India's schools""""6 Agriculture and the development burden""; ""Part II India and the world""; ""7 Politics, security and foreign policy""; ""8 Is India a South Asian or an Asian power?""; ""9 India's role as an international development actor""; ""10 Dispersals, migrations, diversity of communities and the notion of an Indian diaspora""; ""11 Yoga and physical culture: transnational history and blurred discursive contexts""; ""12 Modernised Ayurveda in India and the West""; ""Part III Society, class, caste and gender""
Description / Table of Contents:
""13 The politics of economic reforms in India""""14 Divided we stand: the Indian city after economic liberalisation""; ""15 India's middle classes in contemporary India""; ""16 Caste: why does it still matter?""; ""17 Corruption and anti-corruption in modern India: history, patronage and the moral politics of anti-colonialism""; ""18 Regional perspective: Gujarat and the contradictory co-existence of economic enterprise and political illiberalism""; ""19 Intimate spaces of struggle: rethinking family and marriage in contemporary India""
Description / Table of Contents:
""20 Adivasis and contemporary India: engagements with the state, non-state actors and the capitalist economy""""Part IV Religion and diversity""; ""21 Myth as history and history as myth: the instructive case of India""; ""22 Matters that matter: material religion in contemporary Hinduism""; ""23 Hindu pilgrimage sites and travel: infrastructure, economy, identity and conflicts""; ""24 Ambedkar's life and his Navayana Buddhism""; ""25 Religion, identity and empowerment: the making of Ravidassia Dharm (Dalit religion) in contemporary Punjab""
Description / Table of Contents:
""26 Muslims in contemporary India: socio-religious diversity and the questions of citizenship""""27 Religious violence, crime statistics and India's Muslim minority""; ""28 Christians in India: living on the margins with a diverse and controversial past""; ""Part V Cultural change and innovations""; ""29 Combative constructions of femininity in the late twentieth-century narratives of India""; ""30 The new Indian male: muscles, masculinity and middle classness""; ""31 Changing food habits in contemporary India: discourses and practices from the middle classes in Chennai (Tamil Nadu)""
Description / Table of Contents:
""32 Coping with the diseases of modernity: the use of siddha medical knowledge and practices to treat diabetics""
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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