State and Nation in the Context of Social Change - Vol. 1

Author: T V SathyamurthyPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 1997Language: EnglishPages: 365ISBN/UPC (if available): 019564106X DescriptionThis book, put together by eleven reputable social scientists will help us make a choice from the plethora of theories and paradigms in India.The Project on 'Social Change and Political Discourse in India' was started in January 1989. The four volumes resulting from it have appeared during the two years between mid-1994 and mid-1996. The aim of the project is to produce a set of studies that would concentrate on the political dimension of the different facets of change in India that can be identified. This volume explores the political dynamic of India's contemporary state structures in their evolution from the colonial to the post-colonial era. Differing political and constitutional aspects of state formation are explored against the backdrop of the historic and dominant role played by the Indian National Congress in the independence struggl