India of Our Times: An Experiment in Democracy

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Dr. Harish Kapur explores the recent history of India, focusing on the slow and complex historical process of British rule and its legacies for an independent India. The focus is on the positive impact of the British rule in India: how it transformed the socio-economic-political map of India. He delves into aspects relating to the functioning of political democracy in India, its changing economy and increasing complexity in society. He examines the establishment of ideological pragmatism and political pluralism, the introduction of self-governing institutions, the enactment of social reforms and the introduction of science and technology, viewing it all as legacies of the British.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Harish Kapur

Dr. Harish Kapur is Professor Emeritus at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland. There he teaches international relations. Before joining the Institute, he was Assistant Legal Advisor in the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva. He spent two years in the sixties as a Research Associate at the Russian Research Centre of Harvard University. His basic research focus has been on the foreign policy of nations. He has written a number of books on the subject pertaining to the former Soviet Union, China and India. In 2003, he wrote a book entitled â€˜Taiwan in a Changing World: Search for Security.