Routledge handbook of contemporary India

Abstract

Contemporary India : foundation, relations, diversity, religions and change / Knut A. Jacobsen -- Partitioning India : dreams, memories and legacies / Pippa Virdee -- Symbiosis and resilience : the dynamics of social change and transition to democracy in India / Subrata Kumar Mitra -- Foundations for a sustainable growth : India's constitution and its Supreme Court / Ananth Padmanabhan and Abhishek Chakravarty -- Economic foundation of India / Kunal Sen -- Equity, quantity and quality : the precarious balancing act in India's schools / Vimala Ramachandran -- Agriculture and the development burden / Rajeswari S. Raina -- From composite nationalism to Hindu majoritarianism : India's transition / Manjari Katju -- Politics, security and foreign policy / Rajat Ganguly -- Is India a South Asian or an Asian power? / Manjeet Pardesi -- India's role as a global development partner / Emma Mawdsley -- Dispersals, migrations, the notion of an indian diaspora and the diversity of communities / Brij V. Lal and Knut A. Jacobsen -- Matters that matter : material religion in contemporary Hinduism / Vasudha Narayanan -- International networks supporting Hindutva / Rohit Chopra -- Yoga and physical culture : transnational history and blurred discursive contexts / Mark Singleton -- The politics of economic reforms in India / Diego Maiorano -- Divided we stand : the Indian city after economic liberalisation / Nandini Gooptu -- India's middle classes in contemporary India / Leela Fernandes -- Caste : why does it still matter? / Surinder S. Jodhka -- Hindutva and hygiene : Swachh Bharat Mission as an urban spatial purification project / Aman Luthra -- Corruption and anti-corruption in modern India : history. Patronage, and the moral politics of anti-colonialism / William Gould -- Regional perspective : gujarat and the contradictory co-existence of economic enterprise and political illiberalism / Harald Tambs-Lyche and Nikita Sud -- Intimate spaces of struggle : rethinking family and marriage in contemporary India / Mallarika Sinha Roy -- Adivasis and contemporary India : engagements with the state, non-state actors and the capitalist economy / Uday Chandra -- Myth as history and history as myth : the instructive case of India / Gerald James Larson -- Hindu pilgrimage sites and travel : infrastructure, economy, identity and conflicts / Knut A. Jacobsen -- Death of the sacred : cow, caste and Hindu nationalism / Shivani Kapoor -- Hindutva becoming in the northeast of India / Arkotong Longkumer -- Ambedkar's life and his Navayana Buddhism / Eleanor Zelliot -- Religion, identity and empowerment : the making of Ravidassia Dharm (Dalit religion) in contemporary Punjab / Ronki Ram -- Muslims in contemporary India : socio-religious diversity and the questions of citizenship / R. Santhosh -- India's Muslim minority : religious violence and why India's crime statistics cannot be trusted / Marika Vicziany -- Christians in India : living on the margins with a diverse and controversial past / John C. B. Webster -- 'We too have the sun' : literatures from the Adivasi and Dalit communities of East India / Sipra Mukherjee -- Combative constructions of femininity in the late twentieth century narratives of India / Nandita Ghosh -- Masculinity and muscularity in a changing India : socioeconomic mobility among new ('lower') middle class men / Michiel Baas -- Changing food habits in contemporary India : discourses and practices among the middle classes / Michaël Bruckert and Mathieu Ferry -- Coping with the diseases of modernity : the use of siddha medical knowledge and practices to treat patients with diabetes / Brigitte Sébastia.