Publisher's Synopsis
India has entered the fifth decade of her history as a unitary democratic republic. The successes and failures over the past forty years are relative to the promise that had been held out by India′s struggle for independence over the previous 100 years. There is now a need for discussion of where the country is with respect to that promise. This volume is a major contribution to the discussion of India′s agenda for the next 15 or 20 years.