TY - BOOK AU - Jacobsen,Knut A. TI - Routledge handbook of contemporary India SN - 9781138313750 (pbk.) U1 - 306.0954 JAC 23 PY - 2016/// CY - London PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group KW - India KW - Social conditions KW - Economic conditions KW - History KW - Partition, 1947 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - This handbook is essential reading for students and scholars interested in Indian and South Asian culture, politics, and society. It contains chapters by the field's foremost scholars dealing with fundamental issues in India's current cultural and social transformation. It concentrates on India as it emerged after the economic reforms and the new economic policy of the 1980s and 1990s and as it develops in the twenty-first century ER -