India Briefing: Takeoff at Last? - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765615924 ISBN 13: 9780765615923

Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

Since 2001, India has gained new attention as an emerging world power with a rapidly growing economy, a world-class science and technology sector, and a huge English-speaking labor pool. After a period of escalating tension with neighbor Pakistan, wide-ranging peace talks are underway. Within India, there is an unprecedented mood of optimism about the future. At the same time, the nation wrestles with difficult questions about the place of secularism in society, the role it sees for itself globally and within Asia, and the reality that millions of Indians still live at the subsistence level. This volume of India Briefing examines India's changing fortunes through chapters that cover the economy; the twists and turns of domestic politics; labor in the large informal sector; the cultural roots of Hindu nationalism; the foreign relations rollercoaster; the business of Bollywood; and a special chapter on the range of new resources about India available on the web.

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Alyssa Ayres and Philip Oldenburg

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0765615924
• ISBN 13: 9780765615923
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Ayres Alyssa, Oldenburg Philip