This book brings together three decades of scholarship on Indian politics from a comparative and historical perspective. It provides an overview of the evolution and interrelations between multi-party democracy and economic development in India from the 1980s to the present time. While making a case for a social democratic model of development for India, the volume: emphasizes key challenges including issues of governance, developmental disparity, and inequality analyses the political dimension of economic reforms highlights significant debates on state-society relations in India
