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Book SynopsisIndia''s society, economy, and polity have been transformed at a gathering pace since the early 1990s, and India''s growing role on the world stage makes it imperative to understand the roots and consequences of these changes. The 11 papers in this interdisciplinary volume review the growing body of data that help to make sense of these changes and to understand their likely significance. The volume provides systematic, macro-level studies of economic, demographic, social, and political change in India but also micro-level analyses of the detailed mechanisms ''on the ground'' of how Indian society is being re-shaped. This rare combination of micro- and macro-level analyses thus gives a rounded picture not only of national trends but also of the underlying processes of change.Each of the papers, by leading authorities in each field, showcases the fruits of new, previously unpublished scholarship across the social sciences. For example, Oliver Heath and Yogendra Yadav''s paper draws on t
Table of Contents1. Incongruities, Ironies and Achievements: India's Tryst with Modernity ; 2. Growing Regional Variation: Demographic Change and its Implications ; 3. Costly Absences, Coercive Presences: Health Care in Rural North India ; 4. Economic Resurgence, Lopsided Reform and Jobless Growth ; 5. The Blind Side of Globalization: Auditing Merchant Producers in India's Export Sector ; 6. Unequal Opportunities: Class, Caste and Social Mobility ; 7. The Die is Cast(e): The Debate on Backward Caste/Class Quotas,1990 and 2006 ; 8. . The Rise of Caste Politics: Party System Change and Voter Realignment, 1962- 2004 ; 9. Understanding Popular Politics: Caste, Kinship and Factionalism among Yadavs in North India ; 10. A Left Front Election ; 11. The Challenge of Representing the Complex Reality of India
