Table Of ContentKEYWORDS FOR MODERN INDIA
Keywords for Modern India
Craig Jeffrey and John Harriss
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CONTENTS
Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 1
KeywordsforModernIndia ............................................................................................... 8
ReferencesandFurtherReading ..................................................................................... 187
Bibliography .................................................................................................................. 191
KEYWORDS FOR MODERN INDIA
A
Adivasi ............................................................................................................................. 8
Ambedkar ........................................................................................................................ 10
B
BDO(BlockDevelopmentOfficer)(seebureaucracy) ........................................................ 14
Bollywood ........................................................................................................................ 12
Bondage,BondedLabour(seelabour) ........................................................................... 105
Bourgeois ........................................................................................................................ 13
Bureaucracy ..................................................................................................................... 14
C
Capitalism ....................................................................................................................... 17
Caste ............................................................................................................................... 18
Charity ............................................................................................................................. 21
Citizenship ...................................................................................................................... 23
City .................................................................................................................................. 25
CivilSociety ..................................................................................................................... 27
Class ...............................................................................................................................29
Clientelism(seepatronage) ........................................................................................... 139
Collector(seebureaucracy).............................................................................................. 14
Colonialism ..................................................................................................................... 31
Commons ........................................................................................................................ 33
Communalism(seecommunity) ....................................................................................... 36
Communism .................................................................................................................... 35
Community ...................................................................................................................... 36
Congress ......................................................................................................................... 38
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(The)Constitution ............................................................................................................39
Consumerism................................................................................................................... 41
Contraception(seepopulation) ...................................................................................... 146
Coolie(seelabour) ........................................................................................................ 105
Corruption ....................................................................................................................... 43
Cricket ............................................................................................................................. 45
Criminal .......................................................................................................................... 46
Culture............................................................................................................................. 47
D
Dalit ................................................................................................................................ 50
Democracy ....................................................................................................................... 51
DemographicDividend(seeeducation,population) ......................................................... 59
Development ................................................................................................................... 54
Diaspora .......................................................................................................................... 56
DistrictMagistrate(seebureaucracy) ............................................................................... 14
Dowry(seemarriage) ...................................................................................................... 115
E
Education ........................................................................................................................ 59
Empowerment ................................................................................................................. 60
Encroachment(seeslum) ............................................................................................... 161
Enterprise ....................................................................................................................... 62
Environment .................................................................................................................... 63
Equality ........................................................................................................................... 65
F
Faction ........................................................................................................................... 68
Family ............................................................................................................................. 69
FamilyPlanning(seepopulation) ................................................................................... 146
Federalism ....................................................................................................................... 71
Feminism ......................................................................................................................... 73
Forests............................................................................................................................. 75
Fundamentalism .............................................................................................................. 77
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G
Gandhi ............................................................................................................................ 79
Gender ........................................................................................................................... 80
Generation ...................................................................................................................... 82
Gift(seecharity) .............................................................................................................. 21
Globalization .................................................................................................................. 84
GMO ............................................................................................................................... 86
GreenRevolution ............................................................................................................. 87
(Economic)Growth(seedevelopment) ............................................................................. 54
H
Harijan(seeDalit) ............................................................................................................ 50
Hierarchy(seeequality) ................................................................................................... 65
Hindi(seelanguage) ...................................................................................................... 109
Hindu(Hindustan,Hindustani) ........................................................................................ 89
Hinduism ........................................................................................................................ 90
Hindutva(HinduNationalism) ......................................................................................... 92
History ............................................................................................................................ 94
I
Identity ........................................................................................................................... 96
Individual ........................................................................................................................ 97
Inequality(seeequality) .................................................................................................. 65
Informal .......................................................................................................................... 99
J
Justice ........................................................................................................................... 102
