Power Matters: Essays on Institutions, Politics and Society in India

by John Harriss

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This volume brings together ten essays from the author's enduring work on the different dimensions of power in Indian society. Harriss' analysis of power has been debated across scholarly and policy making circles, and the public sphere in India. His influence on India's developmental thinking and the debate on state's developmentalist organizations has been substantial. The volume traces how issues of political and institutional power explains economic change, resource management, and poverty, inequality and governance, social capital and civil society - all issues of contemporary and continuing relevance in Indian politics. Apart from a scholarly audience, this volume will appeal to policy planners, technocrats, and activists in organizations.
  • ISBN10 0198063318
  • ISBN13 9780198063315
  • Publish Date 25 June 2009 (first published 28 September 2006)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 14 January 2015
  • Publish Country IN
  • Imprint OUP India
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 326
  • Language English