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The Indian State: Fifty Years C. P. Bhambri
Delhi: Shipra, 1999 ISBN 81-85402-89-2
Professor Bhambri has composed this book largely out of articles he published earlier in The Indian Journal of Political Science, The Indian Journal of Public Administration, and Social Scientist. Unfortunately, this shows. The arrangement of the essays has some kind of logic or flow, but this is not particularly neat, covering (in his order) 'Theoretical perspectives on political change', 'The State in contemporary India', 'The modern State and voluntary societies', 'Constitutional democratic State of India: a critique', 'Indian State, social classes and secularism', 'Indian secular State: multi-dimensional struggles', 'State and communalism in India', 'Culture and democracy: will India become a Hindu State?', 'Legitimacy and accountability of State systems: new challenges', 'The Indian State: conflicts and contradictions', 'Political system: nature of contradictions', 'Experiment of democratic State: formation in South Asia', 'Political economy of the Indian State', 'New economic policy: Indian State...