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India Today: Economy, Politics And Society

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Book Review - India Today: Economy, Politics and Society
The task of exploring the dynamics of the social, political and economic spaces in India is difficult enough, but to encompass a vast canvas and elaborately discuss a large variety of systemic issues with analytical depth makes a highly complex read. This book sets out to answer some specific questions such as: When and why did India take off? How have the poor fared? Is the state delivering on inclusive growth and social justice? Has India’s democracy been a success? Does caste still matter?
These are the big questions addressed in the book India Today: Economy, Politics and Society (published in 2012) authored by three scholars who have lived and extensively researched in different parts of India and specialized in Asian Development studies. …show more content…

Craig Jeffrey is professor of Development Geography at the University of Oxford, and John Harriss is a professor of International Development at Simon Fraser University, Canada.
The book is divided into three major sections: Economy, Politics and Society. Each part has been critically discussed and compared with its latest history (which can be read as Indian independence from the British Raj in 1947). The authors have painstakingly analyzed the economic growth and politics at all levels, as well as the civil society
Introduction
India is a vast country and there is no single reason that can answer the question – ‘When and why did India take off?’ which is the title of the first chapter. In the ‘Economy’ section of the book, the

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