Politics and Society in India (Record no. 51316)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781032154121
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 320.954 PHI
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Philips, C. H.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Politics and Society in India
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Routledge
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1963
Place of publication, distribution, etc London
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Extent 190
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Title Studies on Modern Asia and Africa
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Summary, etc India inherited a system of representative and responsible government from Britain, a large part of which was incorporated in the new constitution of independent India. But in the early 1960s it was already becoming clear that this political system could not long continue without change; and the probability is that the change would be considerable. A system deriving its inspiration from a homogenous, tight little nation-state like Britain could scarcely fit a sub-continent of heterogeneous elements like India.<br/><br/>Already, under a deceptively smooth surface, important changes in the nature of Indian political life were taking place. Originally published in 1963, the purpose of these collected studies was to explore, in the rapidly changing situation, the intimate relationship of Indian politics and society and to indicate the ways in which the deeper social and political currents were moving. As an aid in assessing the degree of change in the modern political life of India, several studies of traditional attitudes towards politics in the Hindu and Muslim empires are included, along with an assessment of the central meaning of the fundamental British statement of policy in the Montagu Declaration of 1917. Against this background, the greater part of the volume discusses the practices and trends of the previous few years.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Politics
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element India
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