Democracy and development in India : from socialism to pro-business / Atul Kohli.

I. Political change -- Centralization and powerlessness : India's democracy in a comparative perspective -- Can democracies accommodate ethnic nationalism? : rise and decline of self-determination movements in India -- Enduring another election : India defies the odds -- From majority to minority rule : making sense of the "new" Indian politics -- II. Political economy -- India's fragmented-multiclass state and protected industrialization -- Politics of economic growth in India, 1980-2005, Part 1: the 1980s -- Politics of economic growth in India, 1980-2005, Part II: the 1990s and beyond -- Politics of economic liberation in India -- Regime types and poverty reform in India -- III. Politics and developoment in select states -- Breakdown in a "backward" state : Bihar -- Growing turmoil in an "advanced" state : Gujarat -- From elite activism to democratic consolidation : the rise of reform communism in West Bengal -- Parliamentary communism and agrarian reform : the evidence from India's Bengal -- The NTR phenomenon in Andhra Pradesh : political change in a south Indian state -- Karnataka's land reforms : a model for India?