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100			_aAchin Vanaik _91660
245			_aPainful Transition: Bourgeois Democracy
260			_aLondon _bVerso _c1990*-
300			_ax,302 p. _bHB _c24x16 cm
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520			_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.
650			_aIndian History _91661
650			_aHistory _91662
650			_aPolitical Leadership _91663
650			_aPolitics and Government _91664
651			_aIndia _91665
700			_aVANAIK (Achin) _91666
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