Yet India's poor are not disenfranchised; they actively participate in the democratic project.

In The State and Poverty in India the author argues cogently that well-organised, left-of-centre parties in government are the most effective in implementing re

This thoughtful and challenging book affords an alternative vision of India's rise in the world.

Inclusive growth needs to be achieved to reduce poverty and other disparities and raise economic growth. This book develops a poverty profile for India in view