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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Post-colonial India"”.
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Organising Tataland, the modern nation : a history of development in post/colonial India
Development in the post/colonial world is premised on the twin logics of modernization and nation-building, of which the latter has received little attention in post-development studies, and relatedly Management and Organisation Studies (MOS). This thesis interrogates – historically and critically …
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The History, Ideology, and Organisation of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in the post-colonial India, 1948–1991
This thesis explores the postcolonial history of the Sangh that marked its ascendancy from a marginal paramilitary organisation in the late 1940s to the apex organisation of the Hindu Nationalist movement with a dense network of branches, cadres, and subsidiaries by the 1990s. This thesis gives …
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One-Party-Dominance in Changing Societies : The African National Congress and Indian National Congress in Comparative Perspective : A Study in Party Systems and Agency in Post-Colonial India and Post-Apartheid South Africa
… in scholarly assessments. Academic accounts of post-colonial India are interspersed with references to a deviant case of, or an empirical anomaly to, party system and democratic theory, and the conventional vocabulary used to describe post-apartheid South African political development frequently …
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Industrial/statecraft : infrastructure and the making of industrial capitalism in India, ca. 1940
… that private capital begins to accumulate in post-colonial India. The project looks at the discourse of industrial development and planning in late and post-colonial India, investigating the manner in which infrastructure appears as a trope not only for state's validation but also for …
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Selfsame spaces: Gandhi, architecture and allusions in twentieth century India.
In this dissertation, I suggest that the Indian political leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi infused deep and enigmatic meanings into everyday physical objects, particularly buildings. Indeed, the manner in which Gandhi named the buildings in his famous Satyagraha Ashram in Ahmedabad in the early …
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American social science and the psychology of development in India, 1940s-1960s
With the arrival of independence in 1947, India’s first generation of post-colonial leaders embraced the concept of ‘development’ as a central objective of nation-building and a raison d'être of the post-colonial state. The opportunity of freedom, it was argued, would pave the way for a dramatic …