TY - BOOK AU - Vanaik, Achin AU - Bhargava, Rajeev TI - Understanding Contemporary India: Critical Perspectives SN - 9788125039891 U1 - 342.54 PY - 2010/// CY - New Delhi PB - Orient BlackSwan KW - Humanities and Social Science N1 - Understanding Contemporary India: Critical Perspectives brings together contributions from scholars and teachers of the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi. The Reader examines the peculiarities of Indian democracy—the character of its political institutions and patterns of governance—and the remarkable paradoxes that co-exist in what is easily the most diverse society in the world perceived from whatever angle one chooses—socially, culturally, geo-ethnically, politically and intellectually ER -