"Reinventing India examines the history of modern India and its contemporary transformation, providing a lucid and eminently readable of the changes which are shaking India today."--Jacket.
"Reinventing India examines the history of modern India and its contemporary transformation, providing a lucid and eminently readable of the changes which are shaking India today."--Jacket.
When India was invented as a ""modern"" country in the years after Independence in 1947 it styled itself as a secular, federal, democratic Republic committed to an ideology of development. Nehru's India never quite fulfilled this promise, but more recently his vision of India ha…
"Reinventing India examines the history of modern India and its contemporary transformation, providing a lucid and eminently readable of the changes which are shaking India today."--Jacket.
"This collection of essays explicitly tallies the gains and losses to post-Soviet countries of the last ten years as well as compares the post-Soviet experience implicitly and explicitly with that of other developing countries. Each essay blends political science theory with fre…
"Brazilians have always envisioned for their nation a future of greatness on the world stage. Now, after two centuries of independent statehood, Brazil appears to be making great strides toward first world status. Since the 1950s, this largest of the South American countries has…
"Brazilians have always envisioned for their nation a future of greatness on the world stage. Now, after two centuries of independent statehood, Brazil appears to be making great strides toward first world status. Since the 1950s, this largest of the South American countries has…
An excellent analysis of Iraq's failure to stabilize a system other than Saddam Hussein's hierarchy of fear.