Ramashray Roy: 2 books
Economy, Democracy and the State
The Indian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2009
This book offers a comprehensive picture of how economic forces have emerged as being of central importance in India and the kind of economic growth that the Indian polity has been able to achieve within the framework of democratic politics. It proposes that the modern state is inextricably linked...
Essays on Modernism, Democracy and Well-being
A Gandhian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
A tour de force in understanding the failure of democracy in providing human well-being.
Has democracy ended human suffering, a task that the political system set out for itself? Or is democracy incompatible with modernity and, therefore, fails to achieve human well-being? If so, are we left...