INDIA : Another Millennium?

Author: Romila ThaparPublisher: PenguinYear: 2001Language: EnglishPages: 317ISBN/UPC (if available): 0140298835 DescriptionNow available in paperback edition, this volume, edited and accompanied by Romila Thapar's introduction, features fourteen of India’s foremost scholars and specialists in various fields exploring the challenges that lie before twenty-first century India in its quest for a democratic and just society.Globalization and the IT revolution provide a new context to the problems faced by contemporary India. But will globalization ensure rapid economic growth and development in the face of low literacy, rising population, and the gradual withdrawal of the State from social commitments? Will imitation westernization, and the consumerism that comes with it, further a just society? What are the strains that democracy will be subjected to in the empowerment struggle by marginalized groups, and the growing social and economic disparities that are often accompanied by violen