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Synopsis
This book presents a comprehensive, provocative, and highly readable introduction to contemporary India's modern history and social institutions. Robert Stern discusses India's family households and villages, its long-lived and little understood caste systems and venerable faiths, its extraordinary ethnic diversity, and India's modern agricultural and industrial economies. He also traces the country's history as 'the jewel in the crown' of British imperialism, its evolving systems of classes, electoral politics, and parliamentary democracy, and contrasts India's 'third world' poverty and illiteracy with its technological sophistication and subcontinental predominance. Changing India's central argument is that change in India is now rapid and profound, yet adaptive to the remarkable continuity and vitality of India's social systems. The dominant pattern of change, argues Stern, derives from the simultaneous development of capitalism and parliamentary democracy.
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Review
Reviews of the first edition: 'This small volume contains some of the most intelligent writing on contemporary India that one is likely to encounter ... Responsible for this success ... is a sustained narrative of the 'bourgeois revolution' that (Stern) sees going on, and also an engaging register of language and argument.' Burton Stein, South Asia Research
'The considerable achievement of this book is to explain so much so clearly and so briefly.' R. K. Newman, International Affairs
'... a florid and highly readable account ... addressing the non-specialist reader interested in South Asia, the book casts a cheerful light upon the variegated fabric of India's social institutions and traces the recent history of their evolution ... this book is an ideal introduction for anyone seeking to understand 'the extraordinary emergence of India as a lively, genuine and stable parliamentary democracy ... despite the ravages of time and circumstance ... a brilliant achievement indeed. A most enjoyable read.' The Round Table
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"this volume contains some of the most intelligent writing on contemporary India that one is likely to encounter...an engaging register of language and argument... a unique publication." Burton Stein, SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH
"...a picture of India that cannot be praised too highly...absolutely essential reading." Gilbert Etienne, REVIEW TIERS-MONDE
"The considerable achievement of this book is to explain so much so clearly and so briefly." R. K. Newman, INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
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