Bøker av John Harriss

Originally published in 1982, this book provides an important set of basic materials for students of rural development. Key papers have been chosen and a general introduction and passages that link the papers provided, alerting the student to rival theoretical interpretations and to regional parallels and contrasts.

"New incarnation of the leading introduction to Indian politics, economy and society today"--

When India was invented as a "modern" country in the years after Independence in 1947 it styled itself as a secular, federal, democratic Republic committed to an ideology of development.

Twenty years ago India was still generally thought of as an archetypal developing country, home to the largest number of poor people of any country in the world, and beset by problems of low economic growth, casteism and violent religious conflict.