Amazon.com description: Product Description: India has entered the fifth decade of her history as a unitary democratic republic. According to Subroto Roy and William E. James, a reassessment of India's agenda for the 90s is in order. Interdisciplinary in nature, the original essays comprising this volume define India's possible social, political, and economic goals, and call for an open and frank discussion of the country's state of affairs. A major contribution to the debate over India's strategy for the next decade, this book was designed specifically to stimulate dialogue on key issues of social and political significance and will command the attention of political scientists, economists, sociologists, planners and bureaucrats. "The genuine concern over the multiple crises of society and politics in India and Pakistan, which pervades the two volumes, is a notable and welcome feature." --"Political Studies Association "This book is a valuable collection of essays." --Journal of Contemporary Asia "[This book offers] a very good introduction to the range of problems India faces across a variety of economic sectors and in her society and polity." --The Hindu "Useful for political scientists, economists, sociologists, planners, and bureaucrats." --India Quarterly "The outcome of a large interdisciplinary research project initiated in 1986 and completed in 1990 by Indian and foreign scholars. . . will be useful reading for political scientists, economists, anthropologists, sociologists, demographers, and historians." --The Pakistan Development Review