This revised and updated new edition of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India concentrates on India as it emerged after the economic reforms and the new economic policy of the 1980s and 1990s and as it develops in the twenty-first century. It presents new developments and advancements in the research literature and includes discussions of the major political change in India since the Hindu nationalist party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in 2014.
This Handbook contains chapters by the field’s foremost scholars dealing with fundamental issues in India’s current cultural and social transformation. This new edition also contains six new chapters on topics not covered by the first edition, such as changes caused by the Hindu majoritarian political ideology, the Hinduization process in the northeast of India and contemporary Dalit and Adivasi literatures. Following an introduction by the editor, the book is divided into five parts:
Part I: Foundation
Part II: India and the world
Part III: Society, class, caste and gender
Part IV: Religion and diversity
Part V: Cultural change and innovations
Exploring the cultural changes and innovations relating a number of contexts in contemporary India, this Handbook is essential reading for students and scholars interested in Indian and South Asian culture, politics and society.
Author(s): Knut A. Jacobsen
Series: Routledge Handbooks
Edition: 2
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: xxii; 592
City: London
Tags: Area Studies; Humanities; Politics & International Relations; Reference & Information Science
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Editor
Contributors
1 Contemporary India: Foundation, Relations, Diversity, Religions and Change
Part I: Foundation
2 Partitioning India: Dreams, Memories, and Legacies
3 Social Change, Transition to Democracy and its Consolidation in India: Symbiosis and Resilience
4 Foundations for a Sustainable Growth: India's Constitution and its Supreme Court
5 Economic Foundation of India
6 Equity, Quantity and Quality: The Precarious Balancing Act in India's Schools
7 Agriculture and the Development Burden
8 From Composite Nationalism to Hindu Majoritarianism: India's Transition
Part II: India and the World
9 Politics, Security and Foreign Policy
10 Is India a South Asian or an Asian Power?
11 India's Role as a Global Development Partner
12 Dispersals, Migrations, the Notion of an Indian Diaspora and the Diversity of Communities
13 Matters that Matter: Material Religion in Contemporary Hinduism
14 International Networks Supporting Hindutva
15 Yoga and Physical Culture: Transnational History and Blurred Discursive Contexts
Part III: Society, Class, Caste and Gender
16 The Politics of Economic Reforms in India
17 Divided we Stand: The Indian City After Economic Liberalization
18 India's Middle Classes in Contemporary India
19 Caste: Why does it Still Matter?
20 Hindutva and Hygiene: Swachh Bharat Mission as an Urban Spatial Purification Project
21 Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Modern India: History, Patronage and the Moral Politics of Anti-Colonialism
22 Regional Perspective: Gujarat and the Contradictory Co-Existence of Economic Enterprise and Political Illiberalism
23 Intimate Spaces of Struggle: Rethinking Family and Marriage in Contemporary India
24 Adivasis and Contemporary India: Engagements with the State, Non-State Actors, and the Capitalist Economy
Part IV: Religion and Diversity
25 Myth as History and History as Myth: The Instructive Case of India
26 Hindu Pilgrimage Sites and Travel: Infrastructure, Economy, Identity and Conflicts
27 Death of the Sacred: Cow, Caste and Dalit Politics in India
28 Hindutva Becoming in the Northeast of India
29 Ambedkar's Life and his Navayana Buddhism
30 Religion, Identity and Empowerment: The Making of Ravidassia Dharm (Dalit Religion) in Contemporary Punjab
31 Muslims in Contemporary India: Socio-Religious Diversity and the Questions of Citizenship
32 India's Muslim Minority: Religious Violence and why India's Crime Statistics Cannot Be Trusted
33 Christians in India: Living on the Margins with a Diverse and Controversial Past
Part V: Cultural Change and Innovations
34 'We Too Have the Sun': Literatures From the Adivasi and Dalit Communities of East India
35 Combative Constructions of Femininity in the Late Twentieth-Century Narratives of India
36 Masculinity and Muscularity in a Changing India: Socioeconomic Mobility Among New ('Lower') Middle-Class Men
37 Changing Food Habits in Contemporary India: Discourses and Practices Among the Middle Classes
38 Coping with the Diseases of Modernity: The Use of Siddha Medical Knowledge and Practices to Treat Patients with Diabetes
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