India Times Experiment Democracy by Harish Kapur (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. Language: English. This book explores the recent history of India a history that focuses on the British Empire, and all that it did on the vast subcontinent during centuries of governance. While, it was neither planned nor premeditated, the slow and complex historical process of British rule resulted in the unfolding of a new process of viable governance and modernisation that transformed the socioecnomicopolitical map of Indiaa transformation India had never experienced before. The British legaciesÑnegative and positiveÑare enormous. While much has been written on the dark period of colonial repression inflicted by the British, this treatise focuses on the positive side of the British presence in India. It is the purpose of this publication to show that the establishment of ideological pragmatism, political pluralism, the initial enactment of social reforms, the introduction of selfgoverning institutions, and the introduction of technology are the legacies that remain an undeniable part of postindependent India. The British past, thus, has not been completely unkind to India. What the country is today, and the direction in which it is heading are the results of the legacies that the British left, the foundations of which are still visible. About The Author: Dr. Harish Kapur is professor emeritus of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Also he is the Director of the European Institute in Switzerland and India. The author has spent much of his academic career teaching international relations, and monitoring Ph.D. dissertations of students from different countries. He was recipient of many awards from different European and US Foundations, including a two year grant from Rockefeller Foundation that resulted in his appointment as Research Associate of the Russian Research Centre at Harvard University. Perhaps the most prestigious award he has received is that he has been nominated as the outstanding intellectual in the 20th and 21st centuries, along with 1000 intellectuals from all over the world by the Cambridge International Biographical Centre in the United Kingdom. Before joining the Institute in 1961, he functioned as The Deputy Legal Adviser in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. While teaching international relations, Professor Kapur devoted much of his time to foreign policy of States with a focus on the former Soviet Union, China, Taiwan, India and the European Union. Most of his writings have been published in Europe, the United States and India. Contents: Contents, Preface, Introduction, PART I THE PAST, 1. Colonialism, 2. Nationalism, 3. Independence, PART II THE PRESENT, 4. Political Democracy, 5. Mutating Economy, 6. Society: Increasing Complexity, 7. Leadership: A Growing Decline, Summing Up, Bibliography, Index The Title 'India of Our Times: an Experiment in Democracy written/authored/edited by Harish Kapur', published in the year 2010. The ISBN 9788121210652 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 250 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History / Archaeology. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms 250.