This revised and updated new edition of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India concentrates on India as it emerged after the economic reforms and the new economic policy of the 1980s and 1990s and as it develops in the twenty-first century. It presents new developments and advancements in the research literature and includes discussions of the major political change in India since the Hindu nationalist party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in 2014.
This Handbook contains chapters by the fields foremost scholars dealing with fundamental issues in Indias current cultural and social transformation. This new edition also contains six new chapters on topics not covered by the first edition, such as changes caused by the Hindu majoritarian political ideology, the Hinduization process in the northeast of India and contemporary Dalit and Adivasi literatures. Following an introduction by the editor, the book is divided into five parts:
Part I: Foundation
Part II: India and the world
Part III: Society, class, caste and gender
Part IV: Religion and diversity
Part V: Cultural change and innovations
Exploring the cultural changes and innovations relating a number of contexts in contemporary India, this Handbook is essential reading for students and scholars interested in Indian and South Asian culture, politics and society.
This revised and updated new edition of the Handbook concentrates on India as it emerged after the economic reforms and the new economic policy of the 1980s and 1990s and as it develops in the twenty-first century.
Chapter
1. Contemporary India: Foundation, relations, diversity,
religions and change Part I: Foundation
Chapter
2. Partitioning India:
Dreams, Memories and Legacies;
Chapter
3. Symbiosis and Resilience: The
Dynamics of Social Change and Transition to Democracy in India;
Chapter
4.
Foundations for a Sustainable Growth: Indias Constitution and its Supreme
Court;
Chapter
5. Economic Foundation of India;
Chapter
6. Equity, Quantity
and Quality: The Precarious Balancing act in Indias Schools;
Chapter
7.
Agriculture and the Development Burden;
Chapter
8. From Composite Nationalism
to Hindu Majoritarianism: Indias Transition Part II India and the World
Chapter
9. Politics, Security and Foreign Policy;
Chapter
10. Is India a
South Asian or an Asian Power?
Chapter
11. India's Role as a Global
Development Partner;
Chapter
12. Dispersals, Migrations, the Notion of an
Indian Diaspora and the Diversity of Communities;
Chapter
13. Matters That
Matter: Material Religion in Contemporary Hinduism;
Chapter
14. International
networks supporting Hindutva;
Chapter
15. Yoga and Physical Culture:
Transnational History and Blurred Discursive Contexts Part III Society,
Class, Caste and Gender
Chapter
16. The Politics of Economic Reforms in
India;
Chapter
17. Divided We Stand: The Indian City after Economic
Liberalisation;
Chapter
18. Indias Middle Classes in Contemporary India;
Chapter
19. Caste: Why Does It Still Matter?
Chapter
20. Hindutva and
hygiene: Swachh Bharat Mission as an urban spatial purification project;
Chapter
21. Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Modern India: History.
Patronage, and the Moral Politics of Anti-colonialism;
Chapter
22. Regional
Perspective: Gujarat and the Contradictory Co-existence of Economic
Enterprise and Political Illiberalism;
Chapter
23. Intimate Spaces of
Struggle: Rethinking Family and Marriage in Contemporary India;
Chapter
24.
Adivasis and Contemporary India: Engagements with the state, non-state actors
and the capitalist economy Part IV Religion and Diversity
Chapter
25. Myth as
History and History as Myth: The Instructive Case of India;
Chapter
26. Hindu
Pilgrimage Sites and Travel: Infrastructure, Economy, Identity and Conflicts;
Chapter
27. Death of the Sacred: Cow, Caste and Hindu Nationalism;
Chapter
28. Hindutva Becoming in the Northeast of India;
Chapter
29. Ambedkar's Life
and His Navayana Buddhism;
Chapter
30. Religion, Identity and Empowerment:
The Making of Ravidassia Dharm (Dalit Religion) in Contemporary Punjab;
Chapter
31. Muslims in Contemporary India: Socio-religious Diversity and the
Questions of Citizenship;
Chapter
32. Indias Muslim Minority: Religious
Violence and Why Indias Crime Statistics Cannot be Trusted;
Chapter
33.
Christians in India: Living on the Margins with a Diverse and Controversial
Past Part V Cultural Change and Innovations
Chapter
34. We Too Have the
Sun: Literatures from the Adivasi and Dalit communities of East India;
Chapter
35. Combative Constructions of Femininity in the Late Twentieth
Century Narratives of India;
Chapter
36. Masculinity and Muscularity in a
Changing India: Socioeconomic Mobility among New (Lower) Middle Class Mens;
Chapter
37. Changing Food Habits in Contemporary India: Discourses and
practices among the middle classes;
Chapter
38. Coping with the Diseases of
Modernity: The use of siddha medical knowledge and practices to treat
patients with diabetes; Index
Knut A. Jacobsen is a Professor of Religion at the University of Bergen, Norway. His most recent book published by Routledge is Yoga in Modern Hinduism (2018) and the co-edited book Religion and Technology in India (2018), and he is the editor of the Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions (2020).
