CHANGING INDIA
Description
This revised edition of Robert Stern's book brings India's story up-to-date. This is a colourful, readable and comprehensive introduction to modern India. Since its original publication in 1993, much has altered and, yet, central to the author's argument remains his belief in the remarkable continuity and vitality of India's social systems and its resilience in the face of change. In a journey through its family households and villages, the author explains its long-lived and little understood caste and class systems, its venerable faiths and extraordinary ethnic diversity, its history as 'the jewel in the crown' of British imperialism and its post-Independence career as a major agricultural and industrial nation. While paradoxes abound in an India that is constantly transforming, Stern demonstrates how and why it remains the largest and most enduring democracy in the developing world.
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Book Details
- ISBN: 052154081X
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- Format: Paperback
- Publication Date: 2003
- Number of Pages: 250
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- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Weight: 0.3 g
