An uncertain glory : India and its contradictions /
When India became independent in 1947 after two centuries of colonial rule, it immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system, with multiple parties, freedom of speech, and extensive political rights. Maintaining rapid as well as environmentally sustainable growth remains an important and...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
c2013.
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Sumário:
- A new India?
- Integrating growth and development
- India in comparative perspective
- Accountability and corruption
- The centrality of education
- India's health care crisis
- Poverty and social support
- The grip of inequality
- Democracy, inequality and public reasoning
- The need for impatience.