Download or read book Politics and the State in India written by Zoya Hasan and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2000-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the processes of state formation and consolidation, and the erosion of the post-colonial state, this book highlights three themes: the constraints of modernization; the contradictory logic of modernization vis-a-vis assertive political identities; and the politics of the governed and the battle for equal status at the level of the state. It sees the present crisis of the Indian state as a direct result of the post-colonial state's inability to grapple with the social and multicultural realities of the Indian polity, thus making way for various religious, caste and regional frictions to surface.