This book is a collection of essays, extracts, memoirs and a short story, outlining the events during the decade preceding India's partition which culminated in the making of Pakistan and the division of India and the situation thereafter. This is a paperback reprint of the earlier hardback edition, published in 1993.
On the basis of his new fieldwork done in south Gujarat between 2004 and 2006, Jan Breman critically analyses the historical roots of the ongoing subordination of the rural poor in what has come to be recognised as a booming economy.
This is a sociological interpretation of modern Indian history, and a hard-hitting critique of nationalist historiography and the National Movement in India.
Digital India is shaped by political and economic considerations. This book places Digital India in its local and global contexts and attempts to account for its dynamism, its contestations, its key actors including the State, civil society and foreign governments such as the USA - in other words, the multifaceted shapings of Digital India