Reading List for General Examination in South Asia
(focus on India)
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Topics |
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Historical Development of India (Pre-1947)
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Modern India (Post-1947) |
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India’s Democracy |
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Federalism |
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Ethnic Politics a. Contentious Politics b. Religious Politics c. Class Politics |
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Political Economy a. Poverty, Redistribution, and Development b. Growth and Industrialization c. Indian Post Industrialization and International Political Economy |
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Parties in India a. National Parties i. Congress ii. BJP b. Regional/Ethnic Party Politics |
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Education and Development |
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India and the Subcontinent |
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India and the World |
Reading List
Historical
Development of India (Pre-1947)
Basham, Arthur L. 1954. The Wonder That Was India; a Survey of the Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent Before the Coming of the Muslims. London: Sidgwick and Jackson.
Chandra, Bipan. 1989. India's Struggle for Independence. New York: Penguin Books.
Keay, John. 2000. India: A History. London: Harper Collins.
Sarkar, Sumit. 1989. Modern India, 1885-1947. New York: Macmillan Press.
Wolpert, Stanley A. 2004. A New History of India. New York: Oxford University Press.[1]
Modern India
(Post-1947)
Bose, Sugata, and Ayesha Jalal. 2004. Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge.
Brass, Paul R. 1994. The Politics of India Since Independence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Chandra, Bipan, and Aditya Mukherjee. 1999. India After Independence: 1947-2000. South Asia Books.
Guha, Ramachandra. 2007. India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy. New York: Harper Perennial.
Khilnani, Sunil. 1999. The Idea of India. New York: Macmillan Press.
Panagariya, Arvind. 2008. India: The Emerging Giant. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
India’s
Democracy
Austin, Granville. 2003. Working a Democratic Constitution: A History of the Indian Experience. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Bhavnani, Rikhil R. 2009. “Do Electoral Quotas Work After They Are Withdrawn? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India.” American Political Science Review 103(01): 23-35.
Chattopadhyay,
Raghabendra, and Esther Duflo. 2007. “Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a
Randomized Policy Experiment in India.” Econometrica 72(5): 1409-1443.
Chhibber, Pradeep K., and Ken Kollman. 2004. The Formation of National Party Systems: Federalism and Party Competition in Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Economic and Political Weekly. December 18-24, 2004: Special Issue: National Election Study 2004 [see essays by Yogendra Yadav, K.C. Suri, Suhas Palshikar].[2]
Heller, Patrick. 2000. “Degrees of Democracy: Some Comparative Lessons from India.” World Politics 52(4): 484–519.
Hewitt, Vernon M. 2008. Political Mobilisation and Democracy in India: States of Emergency. London: Routledge.
Kapur, Devesh, and Pratap Bhanu Mehta, eds. 2005. Public Institutions in India: Performance and Design. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.[3]
Keefer, Philip, and Stuti Khemani. 2009. “When Do Legislators Pass on Pork? The Role of Political Parties in Determining Legislator Effort.” American Political Science Review 103(01): 99-112.
Kohli, Atul, ed. 2001. The Success of India's Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kohli, Atul. 1990. Democracy and Discontent: India’s Growing Crisis of Governability. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kothari, Rajni. 2005. Rethinking Democracy. Delhi: Orient Longman.
Mehta, Pratap Bhanu. 2003. Burden of Democracy. Delhi: Penguin India.
Pande, Rohini. 2003. “Can Mandated Political Representation Provide Disadvantaged Minorities Policy Influence? Theory and Evidence from India.” American Economic Review 93(4): 1132–1151.
Yadav, Yogendra. 1999. “Electoral Politics in the Time of Change: India's Third Electoral System, 1989-99.” Economic and Political Weekly 34(34): 2393–2399.
Federalism
Bardhan, Pranab K. 1997. “Corruption and Development: A Review of Issues.” Journal of Economic Literature 35(3): 1320–1346.
Chatterjee, Partha, ed. 1998. State and Politics in India. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Dua, Bhagwan D. 1985. “Federalism or Patrimonialism: The Making and Unmaking of Chief Ministers in India.” Asian Survey 25.
Kapur, Devesh, and Pratap Bhanu Mehta, eds. 2005. Public Institutions in India: Performance and Design. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kaviraj, Sudipta. 1990. “On State, Society and Discourse in India.” IDS Bulletin 21(4): 10-15.
Kaviraj, Sudipta, ed. 1997. Politics in India. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Kohli, Atul. 1994. “Centralization and Powerlessness: India’s Democracy in a Comparative Perspective.” In Joel Migdal, Atul Kohli, and Vivien Shue, eds. State Power and Social Forces: Domination and Transformation in the Third World: 89–107.
Kohli, Atul, and Pranab. K. Bardhan. 1990. India's Democracy: An Analysis of Changing State-Society Relations. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press.
Jenkins, Robert. 2004. Regional Reflections: Comparing Politics across India's States. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lijphart, Arend. 1996. “The Puzzle of Indian Democracy: A Consociational Interpretation.” The American Political Science Review 90(2): 258-268.
Mitra, Subrata K. 1992. Power, Protest, and Participation: Local Elites and the Politics of Federalism. London: Routledge.
Nooruddin, Irfan, and Pradeep K. Chhibber. 2008. “Unstable Politics: Fiscal Space and Electoral Volatility in the Indian States.” Comparative Political Studies 41(8).
Pinglé, Vibha. 1999. Rethinking the Developmental State. Palgrave Macmillan.
Potter, David C. 1986. India's Political Administrators, 1919-83. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Rao, M. Govinda. 2002. “State Finances in India: Issues and Challenges.” Economic and Political Weekly 37(31): 3261–3271.
Rodden, Jonathan, and Steven I. Wilkinson. 2004. “The Shifting Political Economy of Redistribution in the Indian Federation.” Unpublished Paper.
Saez, Lawrence. 2002. Federalism Without a Centre: The Impact of
Political and Economic Reform on India's Federal System. New Delhi: Sage
Publications.
Saez, Lawrence, and Aseema Sinha. 2010. “Political Cycles, Political Institutions and Public Expenditure in India, 1980-2000.” British Journal of Political Science 40(01): 91-113.
Wade, Robert. 1992. “How to Make Street Level Bureaucrats Work Better: India and Korea.” IDS Bulletin 23(4): 51-55.
Waterbury, John. 1993. Exposed to Innumerable Delusions: Public Enterprise and State Power in Egypt, India, Mexico, and Turkey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
World Bank. 2005. State Fiscal Reforms in India: Progress and Prospects: A World Bank Report. New Delhi: Macmillan India.
Ethnic
Politics
A.
Contentious Politics[4]
Basu, Amrita, and Atul Kohli, eds. 2000. Community Conflicts and the State in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Beteille, Andre. 2000. “India's Heritage of Diversity.” In Antinomies of Society: Essays on Ideologies and Institutions, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Brass, Paul R. 1997. Theft of an Idol: Text and Context in the Representation of Collective Violence. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Dunning, Thad.
2009. “The Salience of Ethnic Categories: Field and Natural Experimental
Evidence from Indian Village Councils.” Working Paper.
Jaffrelot, Christophe. 2006. “The Impact of Affirmative Action in India: More Political than Socioeconomic.” India Review 5(2): 173.
Jeffery, Patricia, and Amrita Basu, eds. 1998. Appropriating Gender: Women's Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia. New York: Routledge.[5]
Lieberman, Evan S. 2009. “A Model-Testing Case Study of Strong Ethnic Boundaries and AIDS Policy in India.” In Boundaries of Contagion: How Ethnic Politics Have Shaped Government Responses to AIDS, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, p. 173-238.
Varshney, Ashutosh. 2001. “Ethnic Conflict and Civil Society: India and Beyond.” World Politics 53(3): 362–398.
Varshney, Ashutosh. 2003. Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Weiner, Myron. 1989. “Introduction, Chapter 6 (on reservations); Section 2 (on ideas and public policy).” In The Indian Paradox: Essays in Indian Politics, ed. Ashutosh Varshney. New Delhi: Sage Publications.
Wilkinson, Steven I. 2006. Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in South India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wilkinson, Steven I. 2000. “India, Consociational Theory, and Ethnic Violence.” Asian Survey 40(5): 767-791.
B.
Religious Politics
Brass, Paul R. 2003. The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Field, Erica, Matthew Levinson, Rohini Pande, and Sujata Visaria. 2008. “Segregation, Rent Control, and Riots: The Economics of Religious Conflict in an Indian City.” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 98(2): 505-510.
Jaffrelot, Christophe. 2003. India's Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Lower Castes in North India. New York: Columbia University Press.
Jha, Saumitra. 2008. Trade, Institutions and Religious Tolerance: Evidence from India. Stanford University. Available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=948734.
Wilkinson,
Steven I. 2006. Religious Politics and Communal Violence. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
C.
Class Politics
Bayly, Susan. 1999. “Introduction.” Caste, Society and Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Beteille, Andre. 1992. The Backward Classes in Contemporary India.
Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Engineer, Asghar Ali, ed. 1984. Communal Riots in Post-Independence India. Hyderabad: Sangam Books.
Fernandes, Leela. 2006. India's New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform. Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press.
Harriss, John. 2010. “Class and Politics in India.” In The Oxford Companion to Politics in India, eds. Niraja Gopal Jayal and Pratap Bhanu Mehta. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Moore, Barrington. 1966. “Democracy in Asia: India and the Price of Peaceful Change.” In Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, Boston: Beacon Press, p. 314-412.
Shah, Ghanshyam, ed. 2004. “Caste and Democratic Politics In India.” In Caste and Democratic Politics In India, London: Anthem Press, p. 1-26.
Sinha, Aseema. 2005. The Regional Roots of Developmental Politics in India: A Divided Leviathan. Indiana University Press.
Varshney, Ashutosh. 1998. Democracy, Development, and the Countryside. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wade, Robert. 1994. Village Republics: Economic Conditions for Collective Action in South India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Political
Economy
A.
Poverty, Redistribution, and Development
Bardhan,
Pranab K. 1998. The Political Economy of Development in India. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Bose, Sugata, and Ayesha Jalal, eds. 1997. Nationalism, Democracy, and Development: State and Politics in India. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Datt, Gaurav, and Martin Ravallion. 1998. “Why Have Some Indian States Done Better Than Others at Reducing Rural Poverty?” Economica 65(257): 17–38.
Deaton, Angus, and Jean Drèze. 2002. “Poverty and Inequality in India: A Re-examination.” Economic and Political Weekly: 3729–3748.
Fisman, Raymond, and Tarun Khanna. 2004. “Facilitating Development: The Role of Business Groups.” World Development 32(4): 609-628.
Frankel, Francine R., and M.S.A. Rao, eds. 1990. Dominance and State Power in Modern India: Decline of a Social Order Volumes 1 and 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gupta, Akhil. “The Political Economy of Post-Independence India -- A
Review Article.” The Journal of Asian Studies 48(4): 1989 November.
Gupta, Dipankar. 2000. “India’s Unmodern Modernity.” In India: Another Millennium?, ed. Romila Thapar. New Delhi: Viking, pp. 85-107.
Gupta, Dipankar. 2000. Mistaken Modernity: India between Worlds. New Delhi: Harper Collins Publishers.[6]
Heller, Patrick. 1999. The Labor of Development. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Herring, Ronald J. 1999. “Embedded Particularism: India's Failed Developmental State.” In The Developmental State, ed. Meredith Woo-Cumings. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Herring, Ronald J. 2001. “Contesting the "Great Transformation": Local Struggles with the Market in South India.” In Agrarian Studies: Synthetic Work at the Cutting Edge, eds. James C. Scott and Nina Bhatt. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, pp. 235-263.
Jenkins, Robert. 1999. Democratic Politics and Economic Reform in India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kohli, Atul. 1989. The State and Poverty in India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Krishna, Anirudh. 2007. “How Does Social Capital Grow: A Seven-Year Study of Villages in India.” Journal of Politics 69(4): 941-956.
Krishna, Anirudh. 2010. One Illness Away: How People Escape Poverty and Why They Became Poor. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lal, Deepak. 2000. The Poverty of "Development Economics". Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.[7]
Manor, James. 1990. “How and Why Liberal and Representative Politics Emerged in India.” Political Studies 38(1): 20-38.
Myrdal, Gunnar. 1968. Asian Drama: An
Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations. London: Penguin Books.
Nayar, Baldev Raj. 1989. India's Mixed Economy: The Role of Ideology and Interest in Its Development. Bombay: Popular Prakashan.
Ramachandra, Guha. 2001. “The Absent Liberal: An Essay on Politics and
Intellectual Life.” Economic and Political Weekly 36(50): 4663-4670.
Ravallion, Martin, and Gaurav Datt. 2002. “Why Has Economic Growth Been
More Pro-Poor in Some States of India Than Others?” Journal of Development
Economics 68(2): 381–400.
Ray, Raka, and Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, eds. 2005. Social Movements in India: Poverty, Power, and Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
World Bank. 2003. India: Sustaining Reform, Reducing Poverty. Available online: http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2003/07/18/000012009_20030718114757/Rendered/PDF/257970IN.pdf
World Bank. 2007. India Development Policy Review. Available online: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/SOUTHASIAEXT/Resources/DPR_overview.pdf
B.
Growth and Industrialization
Banerjee, Abhijit, and Lakshmi Iyer. 2005. “History, Institutions, and Economic Performance: The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India.” American Economic Review 95(4): 1190-1213.
Byres, Terence J, ed. 1994. “Chapters 1 and 2.” In The State and Development Planning in India, SOAS studies on South Asia, Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Chakravarty, Sukhamoy. 1987. Development Planning: the Indian Experience. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Chibber, Vivek. 2003. Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Das, Gurcharan. 2006. “The India Model.” Foreign Affairs 85(4): 2-16.
DeLong, J.
Bradford. 2003. “India Since Independence: An Analytic Growth Narrative.” In
Dani Rodrik, ed. In Search of Prosperity:
Analytic Narratives on Economic Growth.
Frankel,
Francine R. 2005. India's Political Economy, 1947-2004. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Frankel, Francine R, ed. 2000. Transforming India: Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Kohli, Atul. 2004. State-Directed Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kohli, Atul. 2006. “Politics of Economic Growth in India, 1980-2005 Parts I and II.” Economic and Political Weekly 41(13,14): 1251-1259; 1361-1370.
Lall, Sanjaya. 1987. Learning to Industrialize: The Acquisition of Technological Capability. Hampshire: Macmillan.
Nagaraj, R. 2006. Aspects of India's Economic Growth and Reforms. Academic Foundation.
Rodrik, Dani, and N. Subramanian. 2004. “From Hindu Growth to Productivity Surge: The Mystery of Indian Growth Transition.” IMF Staff Papers 52(2): 193-228.[8]
Rudolph, Lloyd I., and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph. 1987. In Pursuit of Lakshmi: The Political Economy of the Indian State. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press.
Saez, Lawrence, and Joy Yang. 2001. “The Deregulation of State-Owned Enterprises in India and China.” Comparative Economic Studies 43(3): 69–98.
Sathyamurthy, T. V. 1999. Industry and Agriculture in India Since Independence. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Varshney, Ashutosh. 1984. “Political Economy of Slow Industrial Growth in India.” Economic and Political Weekly 19(35): 1511-1517.
C.
Indian Post-Industrialization and International
Political Economy
Banerjee, Abhijit V., and Esther Duflo. 2000. “Reputation Effects and the Limits of Contracting: A Study of the Indian Software Industry.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 115(3): 989-1017.
Bhagwati, Jagdish N. 1993. India in Transition: Freeing the Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Chhibber, Pradeep K., and Sumit K. Majumdar. 1999. “Foreign Ownership and Profitability: Property Rights, Control, and the Performance of Firms in Indian Industry.” The Journal of Law and Economics 42(1): 209-238.
Corbridge, Stuart, and John Harris. 2000. Reinventing India: Liberalisation, Hindu Nationalism, and Popular Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge Polity Press.
Dastidar, S. G, Raymond Fisman, and Tarun Khanna. 2008. “Testing Limits to Policy Reversal: Evidence from Indian Privatizations.” Journal of Financial Economics 89(3): 513–526.
D'Souza, Errol. 2000. “Structure of Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance in India.” Economic and Political Weekly 35(4): 4196-4205.
Huang, Yasheng, and Tarun Khanna. 2005. “Indigenous versus Foreign Business Models.” In Asia's Giants: Comparing China and India, eds. Edward Friedman and Bruce Gilley. Palgrave Macmillan.
Jalan, B. 1991. India's Economic Crisis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Khanna, Tarun, and Krishna Palepu. 2000. “Is Group Affiliation Profitable in Emerging Markets? An Analysis of Diversified Indian Business Groups.” The Journal of Finance 55(2): 867-891.
Kohli, Atul. 1989. “Politics of Economic Liberalization in India.” World Development 17(3): 305–328.
Sachs, Jeffrey, Ashutosh Varshney, and N. Bajpai. 1999. India in the Era of Economic Reforms. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Saxenian, Anna Lee. 2005. “From Brain Drain to Brain Circulation: Transnational Communities and Regional Upgrading in India and China.” Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID) 40(2): 35-61.
Saxenian, Anna Lee. 2007. “IT Enclaves in India.” In The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, p. 274-324.
Srinivasan, T. N., and Suresh D. Tendulkar. 2003. Reintegrating India with the World Economy. Peterson Institute.
Saez, Lawrence. 1998. “A Comparison of India and China's Foreign Investment Strategy Toward Energy Infrastructure.” The Journal of Developing Areas 32(2): 199–220.
Saez,
Lawrence. 2004. Banking Reform in India and China. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan.
Parties in
India
A.
National Parties
i.
The Rise, Fall, and Re-emergence of Congress
Frank, Katherine. 2001. Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi. London: Harper Collins.[9]
Heath, A., and
Yogendra. Yadav. 1999. “The United Colours of Congress: Social Profile of
Congress Voters, 1996 and 1998.” Economic and Political Weekly:
2518–2528.[10]
Kothari, Rajni. 1964. “The Congress' System' in India.” Asian Survey 4(12): 1161–1173.
Kothari, Rajni. 1994. Politics in India. Delhi: Orient Longman.
Weiner, Myron. 1967. Party Building in a New Nation: The Indian National Congress. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Wilkinson, Steven I. 2005. “Elections in India: Behind the Congress Comeback.” Journal of Democracy 16(1): 153–167.
ii.
The Rise of the BJP
Adeney, Katharine, and Lawrence Saez. 2005. Coalition Politics and Hindu Nationalism. New York: Routledge.
Chandra, Kanchan. 2000. “The Transformation of Ethnic Politics in India: The Decline of Congress and the Rise of the Bahujan Samaj Party in Hoshiarpur.” The Journal of Asian Studies 59(1): 26-61.
Chhibber, Pradeep K. 1997. “Who Voted for the Bharatiya Janata Party?” British Journal of Political Science 27(04): 619-659.
Hansen, Thomas
Blom. 1999. The Saffron Wave: Hindu Nationalism and Democracy in Modern
India. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Hasan, Zoya. 2002. “Introduction; Chapters 1-8, 11-16.” In Parties and Party Politics in India, Themes in politics series, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Jaffrelot, Christophe. 1998. Hindu
National Movement and Indian Politics. New York: Columbia University Press.
Varshney,
Ashutosh. 1993. “Contested Meanings: India's National Identity, Hindu
Nationalism, and the Politics of Anxiety.” Daedalus 122(3): 227-261.
Yadav, Yogendra. 2000. “Understanding the Second Democratic Upsurge: Trends in Bahujan Participation in Electoral Politics in the 1990s.” In Francine Frankel, R. Bhargaya, and B. Arora, eds. Transforming India: Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy.
B.
Regional/Ethnic Political Party Politics
Chandra, Kanchan. 2007. Why Ethnic Parties Succeed: Patronage and Ethnic Head Counts in India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Chhibber, Pradeep K. 1999. Democracy Without Associations: Transformation of the Party System and Social Cleavages in India. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Chhibber, Pradeep K., and Irfan Nooruddin. 2004. “Do Party Systems Count? The Number of Parties and Government Performance in the Indian States.” Comparative Political Studies 37(2): 152-187.
Chhibber, Pradeep K., and Ken Kollman. 1998. “Party Aggregation and the Number of Parties in India and the United States.” The American Political Science Review 92(2): 329–342.
Dunning, Thad,
and Janhavi Nilekani. 2009. “When Formal Institutions are Not Enough: Caste,
Party Politics, and Distribution in Indian Village Councils.” Working Paper.
Jayal, Niraja Gopal, ed. 2001. Democracy in India. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Hasan, Zoya. 2004. Parties and Party Politics in India. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Teltumbde, Anand. 2007. “Uttar Pradesh: A Mayawati Revolution.” Economic and Political Weekly 42(23): 2147-2148.
Education and Development
Agarwal, A. and S.P. Biswas. 1986. Development Of Education in India. Concept Publishing Company.
Banerjee, Abhijit V. et al. 2007. “Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 122(3): 1235-1264.
Drèze, Jean, and M. Murthi. 2000. “Fertility, Education and Development: Further Evidence from India.” SSRN Working Paper.
Drèze, Jean, and Amartya K Sen. 1997. Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Drèze, Jean, and Amartya K Sen. 2002. India: Development and Participation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Easterly, William. 2001. “The Political Economy of Growth without Development: A Case Study of Pakistan.” Working Paper. Available at: http://www.nyu.edu/fas/institute/dri/Easterly/File/Pakistan.pdf.
Jeffrey, Craig, Patricia Jeffery, and Roger Jeffery. 2007. Degrees Without Freedom?: Education, Masculinities, and Unemployment in North India. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Kapur, Devesh, and Pratap Bhanu Mehta. 2008. “Mortgaging the Future? Indian Higher Education.” Brookings-NCAER India Policy Forum 2007-08 4: 101-157.
Kremer, Michael, Karthik Muralidharan, Nazmul Chaudhury, Jeffery Hammer, and F. Halsey Rogers. 2005. “Teacher Absence in India: A Snapshot.” Journal of the European Economic Association 3(2-3): 658-667.
Munshi, Kaivan, and Mark Rosenzweig. 2006. “Traditional Institutions Meet the Modern World: Caste, Gender, and Schooling Choice in a Globalizing Economy.” American Economic Review 96(4): 1225-1252.
Paul, Samuel et al. 2004. “State of India's Public Services: Benchmarks for the States.” Economic and Political Weekly 39(9): 920-933.
Sen, Siddhartha. 1999. “Some Aspects of State-NGO Relationships in India in the Post-Independence Era.” Development and Change 30(2): 327-355.
Weiner, Myron. 1991. The Child and the State in India. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
India and the Subcontinent
Ganguly, Sumit. 1986. Origins of War in South Asia: Indo-Pakistan Conflict Since 1947. London: Westview Press.
Ganguly,
Sumit. 2002. Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions Since 1947. New
York: Columbia University Press.
Hasan, Mushir ul. 1994. “Introduction.” In India’s Partition: Process, Strategy and Mobilization. Mushir ul Hasan, ed. Delhi, Oxford University Press.
Jalal, Ayesha. 1995. Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia: A Comparative and Historical Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kapur, Ashok. 1996. Foreign Policy of India and Her Neighbors. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Marston, Daniel, and Chandar S. Sundaram, eds. 2007. A Military History of India and South Asia: From the East India Company to the Nuclear Era. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.
Schofield, Victoria. 2000. Kashmir in Conflict: India, Pakistan, and the Unfinished War. London: I.B. Tauris.
Thomas, R.G.C. ed. 1992. Perspectives on Kashmir: The Roots of Conflict in South Asia. Oxford: Westview Press.
Varshney, Ashutosh. 1991. “India, Pakistan, and Kashmir: Antinomies of Nationalism.” Asian Survey 31(11): 997–1019.
India and the World
Alagappa, Muthiah, ed. 1998. Asian Security Practice: Material and Ideational Influences. Stanford University Press.
Bajpai, Kanti P., and Siddharth Mallavarapu. 2005. “Introduction.” In International Relations in India: Bringing Theory Back Home, eds. Kanti P. Bajpai and Siddharth Mallavarapu. Hyderabad: Orient Longman.
Cohen, Stephen Philip. 2002. India: Emerging Power. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.
Kapur, Devesh. 2009. “Public Opinion and Indian Foreign Policy.” India Review 8(3): 286-305.
Mehta, Uday
Singh. 1999. Liberalism and Empire. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press.
Nayar, Baldev Raj, and T. V Paul. 2003. India in the World Order: Searching for Major-Power Status. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Perkovich, George. 1999. India's Nuclear Bomb: The Impact on Global Proliferation. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Raja Mohan, C. 2004. Crossing the Rubicon: The Shaping of India's New Foreign Policy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Raja Mohan, C. 2006. “India and the Balance of Power.” Foreign Affairs 85(4): 17-32.
Sagar, Rahul. 2009. “State of Mind: What Kind of Power Will India Become?” International Affairs 85(4): 801-816.
General References
Basu, Kaushik. 2007. The Oxford Companion to Economics in India. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Das, Veena. 2004. Handbook of Indian Sociology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hardgrave, Robert L., and Stanley A. Kochanek. 1999. India: Government and Politics in a Developing Nation. Wadsworth Publishing.
Kohli, Atul and Prerna Singh. 2010. Routledge Handbook of Indian Politics. New York: Routledge.
Jayal, Niraja Gopal, and Pratap
Bhanu Mehta, eds. 2010. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
LaRue, C. Steven, ed. 1997. The India Handbook. New York: Routledge.[11]
Mehta, Vrajendra Raj. 1992. Foundations of Indian Political Thought. Delhi: Manohar Publications.
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Relevant Syllabi
Bose, Sugatu, and Amartya Sen. Fall 2004. Historical Study: The Making of Modern South Asia. Harvard University. Available online: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~mchatter/teaching/HSA16CourseSyllabus.pdf
Gooptu, Nandini. 2009-2010. Politics in South Asia. Oxford University. Available online: http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/teaching/ug/reading_lists/210/210%20Politics%20in%20South%20Asia.pdf
Kohli, Atul. Fall 2006. Politics in India. Princeton University. Available online: http://www.princeton.edu/~kohli/syllabi/F06_pol378.pdf
Sagar, Rahul. Term II 2007/2008. Politics and Society of India. Singapore Management University.
Other Useful Links
SARAI: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/southasia/cuvl/index.html
Berkeley South Asia Library (Nice summaries of recent and historical events): http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/SouthAsia/
[1] Good introductory history book.
[2] Subsequently has been made into a book by Oxford University Press Delhi.
[3] This book should include a chapter similar to Kapur, Devesh, and Pratap Bhanu Mehta. 2006. The Indian Parliament as an Institution of Accountability. Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, which is a very good introductory piece.
[4] This category is used to capture ethnic dynamics broadly, not just religious or socio-economic politics. For a more general discussion about definitions of ethnicity, see Chandra, Kanchan. 2006. “What is Ethnic Identity and Does it Matter?” Annual Review of Political Science 9: 397-424.
[5] Very brief primer on gender issues. Other works relating to gender are scattered throughout the reading list.
[6] Read with “The Absent Liberal” piece.
[7] This book includes a primer on development economics, with specific material on India in later chapters.
[8]
This article was criticized in another article published in the same issue,
with Rodrik and Subramanian providing their response to the criticism.
[9] A concise summary of Indira Gandhi’s life (and a summary of this biography) can be found at Salon.com: http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2002/03/26/gandhi/index1.html
[10] Also in
Zoya Hasan (ed.) Parties and Party
Politics in India.
[11] This handbook is on economic development.