Democratic Lessons
DEEPENING DEMOCRACY
Challenges of Governance and Globalization in India
by Madhu Purnima kishwar, Oxford University Press, 2005
Extract from a Review in Far Eastern Economic Review:
Melana Zyla Vickers, Far Eastern Economic Review, July August 2005
A reader looking for India answers that go beyond tinkering with government and the familiar “private-public partnership” argument would be better off picking up Deepening Democracy by Madhu Kishwar...What makes Ms. Kishwar’s book so readable is her powerful writing and her fantastic, grassroots reporting…Whether Ms. Kishwar is talking about [the dominance of] English or about cycle rickshaws, she succeeds in poking such holes in the status quo that her propositions for change cannot be ignored. Her proposals would be good medicine not only for India but for economies across Asia and the globe.
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'One does not have to agree with Madhu Kishwar to that she is one of India's most independent-minded scholars, unrestrained by political and academic Her distinctive take on the Indian around a spirited rejection of the Statism that informs the opposition to globalization among most political formations in India, and a defiant plea to decentralize Indian politics to take advantage of the possibilities that globalization opens up for advantage of the possibilities that globalization opens up for Indain’s poor.
Ashis Nandy
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
A Note on the Book
As India prepares to enter an era that promises more wealth, equity, and prosperity to its citizens, this volume brings together essays by noted scholar-activist Madhu Purnima Kishwar on enduring issues such as rights, governance, and the impact of globalization on the average Indian citizen.
The volume covers a range of issues from a glimpse of the License-Permit-Raid Raj as it affects the livelihood of the self-employed poor, to a critique of India's farm and economic policies. It further discusses the new divides being created by the country's language policy to the causes and possible remedies for ethnic conflicts in India.
A common thread running through all essays is how most of India's contemporary problems arise out of malgovernance, the choice of inappropriate policies, and a lack of accountability in government that adversely affects the people of India, depresses their incomes and makes it difficult for ordinary hard working citizens to earn a simple livelihood without payoffs and suffering numerous humiliations. Kishwar argues that the poor need economic freedom far more urgently than the rich and builds a case for a bottom-up agenda of economic reforms.
Challenging the critics of globalization, the volume demonstrates how, if India participates actively and intelligently in the WTO, this will open far-reaching opportunities for the farm sector as well as its industries.
While acknowledging that the current trade regime is biased in favour of powerful industrialized nations, Kishwar points to entrenched assumptions and positions taken by those she calls the Anti-Globalization Brigade who claim that liberalization and globalization are intrinsically anti-Third World and anti-poor. Written in a lucid and engaging style, this book will draw a wide readership among scholars across disciplines, in addition to activists, journalists, policy makers, bureaucrats, and the lay reader.
Madhu Purnima Kishwar is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi as well as founder-editor of Manushi. Her books include Religion at the Service of Nationalism and Other Essays (OOP, 1998), Off the Beaten Track Essays on Gender Justice for Indian Women (OUP, 2001), Gandhi and Women (Manushi Prakashan, 1985).
Price Rs. 595 ( hardcover) For your copy of the book or for the subscription of Manushi, write to us at: Email: info@manushi-india.org or manushi@csdsdelhi.org
Cheques payable to manushi Trust may be sent at:
Manushi Trust
C-1/3, Sangam Estate
1, Underhill Road
Civil Lines
Delhi -110 054
Phone: 91-11-23916437, 23978851
Challenges of Governance and Globalization in India
by Madhu Purnima kishwar, Oxford University Press, 2005
Extract from a Review in Far Eastern Economic Review:
Melana Zyla Vickers, Far Eastern Economic Review, July August 2005
A reader looking for India answers that go beyond tinkering with government and the familiar “private-public partnership” argument would be better off picking up Deepening Democracy by Madhu Kishwar...What makes Ms. Kishwar’s book so readable is her powerful writing and her fantastic, grassroots reporting…Whether Ms. Kishwar is talking about [the dominance of] English or about cycle rickshaws, she succeeds in poking such holes in the status quo that her propositions for change cannot be ignored. Her proposals would be good medicine not only for India but for economies across Asia and the globe.
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'One does not have to agree with Madhu Kishwar to that she is one of India's most independent-minded scholars, unrestrained by political and academic Her distinctive take on the Indian around a spirited rejection of the Statism that informs the opposition to globalization among most political formations in India, and a defiant plea to decentralize Indian politics to take advantage of the possibilities that globalization opens up for advantage of the possibilities that globalization opens up for Indain’s poor.
Ashis Nandy
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
A Note on the Book
As India prepares to enter an era that promises more wealth, equity, and prosperity to its citizens, this volume brings together essays by noted scholar-activist Madhu Purnima Kishwar on enduring issues such as rights, governance, and the impact of globalization on the average Indian citizen.
The volume covers a range of issues from a glimpse of the License-Permit-Raid Raj as it affects the livelihood of the self-employed poor, to a critique of India's farm and economic policies. It further discusses the new divides being created by the country's language policy to the causes and possible remedies for ethnic conflicts in India.
A common thread running through all essays is how most of India's contemporary problems arise out of malgovernance, the choice of inappropriate policies, and a lack of accountability in government that adversely affects the people of India, depresses their incomes and makes it difficult for ordinary hard working citizens to earn a simple livelihood without payoffs and suffering numerous humiliations. Kishwar argues that the poor need economic freedom far more urgently than the rich and builds a case for a bottom-up agenda of economic reforms.
Challenging the critics of globalization, the volume demonstrates how, if India participates actively and intelligently in the WTO, this will open far-reaching opportunities for the farm sector as well as its industries.
While acknowledging that the current trade regime is biased in favour of powerful industrialized nations, Kishwar points to entrenched assumptions and positions taken by those she calls the Anti-Globalization Brigade who claim that liberalization and globalization are intrinsically anti-Third World and anti-poor. Written in a lucid and engaging style, this book will draw a wide readership among scholars across disciplines, in addition to activists, journalists, policy makers, bureaucrats, and the lay reader.
Madhu Purnima Kishwar is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi as well as founder-editor of Manushi. Her books include Religion at the Service of Nationalism and Other Essays (OOP, 1998), Off the Beaten Track Essays on Gender Justice for Indian Women (OUP, 2001), Gandhi and Women (Manushi Prakashan, 1985).
Price Rs. 595 ( hardcover) For your copy of the book or for the subscription of Manushi, write to us at: Email: info@manushi-india.org or manushi@csdsdelhi.org
Cheques payable to manushi Trust may be sent at:
Manushi Trust
C-1/3, Sangam Estate
1, Underhill Road
Civil Lines
Delhi -110 054
Phone: 91-11-23916437, 23978851
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