Independent India, 1947-2000 / Wendy Singer
- Author:
- Singer, Wendy
- Published:
- Harlow, England ; New York : Pearson Longman, 2012.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 191 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of chiefly color plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm.
- Series:
- Seminar studies in history
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE ANALYSIS -- Introduction -- 1.Implementing A Secular State -- Concurrences - Partition and the Constituent Assembly -- The Partition: The Problem of Historiography -- Partition and the Constitution -- One Hundred Million Votes -- Caste -- The Constitution and Untouchability -- Zamindari Abolition and Land Reform -- Conclusion -- 2.Consolidating The Nation -- Kashmir and Hyderabad -- The China War (1962) -- Goa: The Last European Colony? -- The Communist Party in Kerala and Regional Assertion -- Conclusion -- 3.Modernism, Government, And The Arts -- Chandigarh and Modernism -- Le Corbusier's Influence on Indian Architecture -- Founding Museums, Promoting the Arts -- Modern Art -- National Museums -- Nationalist Literatures in a Multi-Cultural Nation -- Film -- Conclusion -- 4.Green And Other Revolutions -- The Green Revolution -- The Naxalbari Rebellion -- India and the Revolt in East Pakistan -- Pakistan's Internal Conflict -- Total Revolution and JP -- Anti-Price Rise Movement -- Towards Women's Equality -- Conclusion -- 5.Democratic Watersheds -- The Emergency -- The Proclamation of the Emergency -- The 1977 Election -- Legacies of the Junata Government -- Consequence of the Junata Democracy in the States -- Backward Classes and the Janata Government -- The BJP and the Mandir Issue -- Conclusion: Mandal/Mandir and Changes in Governing -- 6.Social History At The Crossroads Of Local, National And Global Movements -- Shah Bano - One Woman's Story, Larger Consequences -- Responses to the Muslim Women's Bill -- Women's Parliamentary Politics -- Panchayats and Reservations -- Interpreting New Panchayats -- From Panchayats to Parliament -- Mayawati and Phoolan Devi, Leaders of Depressed Classes -- The Forest and Trees: Environmental Politics -- One Person's Outsourcing and Another's Mumbai -- Conclusion -- Conclusion - Democracy And Activism -- Globalization and Economic Boom -- On the Global State, New Terrorism -- Globalization of Culture and Art -- Continuing Themes -- pt. TWO DOCUMENTS -- 1.Jawaharlal Nehru's Speech at Independence -- 2.Question in the Constituent Assembly about Partition -- 3.Report of the Advisory Committee on the Subject of Minority Rights -- 4.Articles 15 and 29 of the Constitution of India -- 5.Hyderabad and the United Nations -- 6.Two Accounts of the Telangana Movement -- 7.Land Revenue Administration: District Gazeteer of Cuddapah, Andhra Pradesh -- 8.Telegram: Request from Kashmir -- 9.Accession of Kashmir -- 10.Panchsheel Agreement, 1954 -- 11.Tibetan Refugees and the Dalai Lama Arrive in India -- 12.Edict of Chandigarh -- 13.Le Corbusier Sketch of Grain Market in Chandigarh - see Plate 5 -- 14.Statute of Land - Chandigarh -- 15.Nek Chand Garden - see Plate 2 -- 16.Principles of the Foundation of the National Gallery of Modern Art -- 17.`Mahisasura' by Tyeb Mehta - see Plate 1 -- 18.`Spirit of Everyday Life' by Meera Mukherjee - see Plate 7 -- 19.Retrospective on National Museum of India -- 20.On Harappa: Depictions of Ancient Pasts -- 21.Founding of Sahitya Akademi -- 22.Languages Recognised in the Constitution -- 23.The Official Language Issue -- 24.Regulation of the Film Industry -- 25.Political Calls for Land Reform -- 26.Agricultural Statistics -- 27.Surrender of Pakistan in Bangladesh War -- 28.Jayaprakash Narayan and "Total Revolution" -- 29.The Committee on the Status of Women in India -- 30.The Emergency: Twenty-Point Programme -- 31.Economic and Political Weekly on the Shah Commission Findings -- 32.Oral Accounts of the Emergency -- 33.Speech by A. K. Gopalan, a Member of Parliament, arrested during the Emergency -- 34.Anandpur Sahib Agreement of the Shiromani Akali Dal -- 35.Indira Gandhi's Last Speech -- 36.1984 Election Poster - see Plate 3 -- 37.Mandal Commission Report on Backward Classes -- 38.Amul Butter Advertisement - see Plate 8 -- 39.Destruction of the Babri Masjid -- 40.The Shah Bano Maintenance in Marriage Case -- 41.Kerala's Experience with Adapting Panchayats -- 42.Tehri Dam Judgment in the Supreme Court.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780582414945 (pbk.)
0582414946 (pbk.) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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