India is broken : a people betrayed, independence to today

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India is broken : a people betrayed, independence to today

Ashoka Mody

Stanford University Press, c2023

  • : [hbk.]

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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)

Includes index

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A provocative new account of how India moved relentlessly from its hope-filled founding in 1947 to the dramatic economic and democratic breakdowns of today. When Indian leaders first took control of their government in 1947, they proclaimed the ideals of national unity and secular democracy. Through the first half century of nation-building, leaders could point to uneven but measurable progress on key goals, and after the mid-1980s, dire poverty declined for a few decades, inspiring declarations of victory. But today, a vast majority of Indians live in a state of underemployment and are one crisis away from despair. Public goods-health, education, cities, air and water, and the judiciary-are in woeful condition. And good jobs will remain scarce as long as that is the case. The lack of jobs will further undermine democracy, which will further undermine job creation. India is Broken provides the most persuasive account available of this economic catch-22. Challenging prevailing narratives, Mody contends that successive post-independence leaders, starting with its first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, failed to confront India's true economic problems, seeking easy solutions instead. As a popular frustration grew, and corruption in politics became pervasive, India's economic growth relied increasingly on unregulated finance and environmentally destructive construction. The rise of a violent Hindutva has buried all prior norms in civic life and public accountability. Combining statistical data with creative media, such as literature and cinema, to create strong, accessible, people-driven narratives, this book is a meditation on the interplay between democracy and economic progress, with lessons extending far beyond India. Mody proposes a path forward that is fraught with its own peril, but which nevertheless offers something resembling hope.

目次

1. Then and Now, an Introduction 2. An Uncertain Beginning 3. The Path Not Taken 4. Nehru's Dangerous Gamble 5. Nehru Doubles His Bet 6: Tagore's Unheard Song 7. Mr. Nehru's Tragedy, Democracy's First Betrayal 8. Shastri Makes a Brave Transition 9. A Savior for India's Ferment 10. India Has an Empress 11. Anger Meets Repression 12. An Autocratic Gamble Fails 13. Democracy Betrays Again, Deindustrialization Begins 14. When the Violence Came Home 15. A Pilot Flies into Political Headwinds 16. Rajiv Unleashes the Gale Force of Hindu Nationalism 17. An All-Too-Brief Moment of Sanity 18. The Promise Has a Dark Underbelly 19. No, India Does Not Shine 20. As the Two Indias Drift Apart, Democracy Creaks 21. Modi Pushes the Economy off the Edge 22. Modi Breaks India's Fractured Democracy 23. COVID-19 Bares the Moral Decay Epilogue: A Feasible Idealism

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