02022nam a22002777a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000070007304100080008008200220008810000230011024500440013326000260017730000270020336500290023052012090025965000250146865000180149365000310151165000340154265100160157670000250159294200120161799900190162995200960164820211025122023.0211025b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a0860912884  cAL  aeng  223a954.052bVANP  aAchin Vanaik91660  aPainful Transition: Bourgeois Democracy  aLondonbVersoc1990*-  ax,302 p.bHBc24x16 cm  a042b320.00c₹d320.00  aIndia is in a state of transition in domestic politics and in external relations. Its emergence as a dominant regional power raises questions about India's commitment to a policy of non-alignment, the platform which has supported important and distinct relationships with both the West and the Soviet Union. As a developing capitalist economy, India continues to resist the external influence of the multinational corporation, and to uphold an internal economic structure based on inequality and domination.
At the centre of this system of contradictions is the endemic crisis of ruling-class leadership, within a durable and decentralized democratic structure which itself bears the frame of the residual caste system. Vanaik seeks his explanations in the specific character of Indian social relations and on either side of India's transition to new political forms—the traditional and older bourgeois structures from which the system has not fully emerged; and the struggles over democratic objectives, authoritarianism and Hindy nationalism which are dictating its progress.
Original and accessible, The Painful Transition dissects the forces at work in shaping the world's largest democratic state.  aIndian History91661  aHistory91662  aPolitical Leadership91663  aPolitics and Government91664  aIndia91665  aVANAIK (Achin)91666  2ddccGF  c216671d216671  00102ddc40708HISaALbALd2013-03-24l0o954.052 VANPpGF01379r2021-10-25 00:00:00yGF