E-grāmata: Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-Level Democracy

'Tillin's rich scholarly curiosity explores India's dismal social policies as the outcome of a long history of tensions between social forces and economic and political threats on the one hand and the individual bearers of ideas about social justice and rights on the other, between centralising policy processes and institutions and fissiparous ones - layered and contorted like geological sediments. A great achievement and essential reading.' Barbara Harriss-White, Wolfson College, Oxford 'In this meticulously researched and beautifully written book, Tillin traces the development of welfare in India, placing these dynamics in global and historical context. In a wide-ranging exploration that spans more than a century, from early industrialization, to the Green Revolution, to liberalization and beyond, Tillin examines the economic conditions, policy debates, and political dynamics that shaped welfare regimes over time. Along the way, she demonstrates how work and employment became and remain central to India's approach to social policy, while also showing how electoral competition in a multi-level democracy led to sub-national policy innovations. In illuminating this history, Tillin provides a necessary foundation for an understanding of the unevenness of welfare provision and social development in India today. This is essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers concerned with questions of social rights and redistribution in India and far beyond.' Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, University of Virginia 'This is an analytically astute and historically informed account of India's welfare regimes. It is unique in bringing together regional dynamics, electoral competition, social movements, and normative frameworks, in a compelling account of one of the most significant welfare regimes in the world.' Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Center for Policy Research, Delhi