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Since 2001, India has gained new attention as an emerging world power with a rapidly growing economy, a world-class science and technology sector, and a huge English-speaking labor pool. After a period of escalating tension with neighbor Pakistan, wide-ranging peace talks are underway. Within India, there is an unprecedented mood of optimism about the future. At the same time, the nation wrestles with difficult questions about the place of secularism in society, the role it sees for itself globally and within Asia, and the reality that millions of Indians still live at the subsistence level. This volume of India Briefing examines India's changing fortunes through chapters that cover the economy; the twists and turns of domestic politics; labor in the large informal sector; the cultural roots of Hindu nationalism; the foreign relations rollercoaster; the business of Bollywood; and a special chapter on the range of new resources about India available on the web.
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Index
AAPI see Association of American Physicians from India
Abhignana Shakuntalam (Kalidasa), 199
Abhiras, 127–28
Abortion, 161
Accountability, medical, 185
Accounting practices, 6, 106
Ackerman, Gary, 116
Acquisitions, 59
Acute disease, 159n.1
Acute respiratory infections (ARI), 166, 189
Advani, L.K., 43, 230, 234, 235, 245, 255, 256
Advertising industry, 161
Affirmative action programs, 122, 130, 131–48, 151, 156
Afghanistan, 9
Aging, 159
Agriculture, 47, 79, 84–86
output, 76–77, 85
policy, 76–77
wages in, 85
see also Irrigation
Ahmad, Shamshad, 242, 252
AIADMK see All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
AIDS, 12n.5, 172–73, 173n.28, 194, 243
AIF see American Indian Foundation
Air cargo industry, 81
Airlines, 73
Air pollution, 166, 179–80
Air traffic controllers, 248
Air travel, 59
Albright, Madeleine, 8
Alexander, Meena, 214
All About H. Hatterr (Desani), 203
Allahabad High Court, 231
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), 22, 23, 25, 29, 232, 235, 241, 250, 251, 271
All India Congress Committee (1998), 28, 233
Allopathic doctors, 183
Alopa Networks, 104
Ambedkar, Bhim Rao, 129–30
Ambedkar Villages Scheme, 145
Amber Networks, 104
American Indian Foundation (AIF), 109–10
Amoebic dysentery, 165
Anand, Mulk Raj, 202
Andhra ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Editors' Note
- Map of South Asia
- Map of India
- Introduction
- Politics in India's Decentered Polity
- The Indian Economy: Pushing Ahead and Pulling Apart
- From Bangalore to Silicon Valley and Back: How the Indian Diaspora in the United States Is Changing India
- The Subordinate Caste Revolution
- The Challenges of India's Health and Health Care Transitions
- Representing India: Indian Literature on the World Stage
- 1998-2000: A Chronology
- Abbreviations and Glossary
- About the Contributors
- Index