Routledge handbook of contemporary India / / edited by Knut A. Jacobsen.

• Superior document: Routledge handbooks
• Author: Jacobsen, Knut A., 1956-
• TeilnehmendeR: Jacobsen, Knut A., 1956-
• Place / Publishing House: London ;, New York : : Routledge,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2015; 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge handbooks.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (523 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

India is the second largest country in the world with regard to population, the world's largest democracy and by far the largest country in South Asia, and one of the most diverse and pluralistic nations in the world in terms of official languages, cultures, religions and social identities. Indians have for centuries exchanged ideas with other cultures globally and some traditions have been transformed in those transnational and transcultural encounters and become successful innovations with an extraordinary global popularity. India is an emerging global power in terms of economy, but in spite

Table of Contents

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Contemporary India: foundation, relations, diversity and innovations; Part I Foundation; 1 Dreams, memories and legacies: partitioning India; 2 Symbiosis and resilience: the dynamics of social change and transition to democracy in India; 3 Foundations for a sustainable growth: India's Constitution and its Supreme Court; 4 Economic foundation of India; 5 Equity, quantity and quality: the precarious balancing act in India's schools; 6 Agriculture and the development burden

Part II India and the world7 Politics, security and foreign policy; 8 Is India a South Asian or an Asian power?; 9 India's role as an international development actor; 10 Dispersals, migrations, diversity of communities and the notion of an Indian diaspora; 11 Yoga and physical culture: transnational history and blurred discursive contexts; 12 Modernised Ayurveda in India and the West; Part III Society, class, caste and gender; 13 The politics of economic reforms in India; 14 Divided we stand: the Indian city after economic liberalisation; 15 India's middle classes in contemporary India

16 Caste: why does it still matter?17 Corruption and anti-corruption in modern India: history, patronage and the moral politics of anti-colonialism; 18 Regional perspective: Gujarat and the contradictory co-existence of economic enterprise and political illiberalism; 19 Intimate spaces of struggle: rethinking family and marriage in contemporary India; 20 Adivasis and contemporary India: engagements with the state, non-state actors and the capitalist economy; Part IV Religion and diversity; 21 Myth as history and history as myth: the instructive case of India

22 Matters that matter: material religion in contemporary Hinduism23 Hindu pilgrimage sites and travel: infrastructure, economy, identity and conflicts; 24 Ambedkar's life and his Navayana Buddhism; 25 Religion, identity and empowerment: the making of Ravidassia Dharm (Dalit religion) in contemporary Punjab; 26 Muslims in contemporary India: socio-religious diversity and the questions of citizenship; 27 Religious violence, crime statistics and India's Muslim minority; 28 Christians in India: living on the margins with a diverse and controversial past; Part V Cultural change and innovations

29 Combative constructions of femininity in the late twentieth-century narratives of India30 The new Indian male: muscles, masculinity and middle classness; 31 Changing food habits in contemporary India: discourses and practices from the middle classes in Chennai (Tamil Nadu); 32 Coping with the diseases of modernity: the use of siddha medical knowledge and practices to treat diabetics; Index