India Briefing

Takeoff at Last?

Alyssa Ayres, Philip Oldenburg

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781315289717
• Edition: 5
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Advertising
• Index: Business

Since 2001, India has gained new attention as an emerging world power with a rapidly growing economy, a world-class science and technology sector, and a huge English-speaking labor pool. After a period of escalating tension with neighbor Pakistan, wide-ranging peace talks are underway. Within India, there is an unprecedented mood of optimism about the future. At the same time, the nation wrestles with difficult questions about the place of secularism in society, the role it sees for itself globally and within Asia, and the reality that millions of Indians still live at the subsistence level. This volume of India Briefing examines India's changing fortunes through chapters that cover the economy; the twists and turns of domestic politics; labor in the large informal sector; the cultural roots of Hindu nationalism; the foreign relations rollercoaster; the business of Bollywood; and a special chapter on the range of new resources about India available on the web.

Index

AAPI see Association of American Physicians from India

Abhignana Shakuntalam (Kalidasa), 199

Abhiras, 127–28

Abortion, 161

Accountability, medical, 185

Accounting practices, 6, 106

Ackerman, Gary, 116

Acquisitions, 59

Acute disease, 159n.1

Acute respiratory infections (ARI), 166, 189

Advani, L.K., 43, 230, 234, 235, 245, 255, 256

Advertising industry, 161

Affirmative action programs, 122, 130, 131–48, 151, 156

Afghanistan, 9

Aging, 159

Agriculture, 47, 79, 84–86

output, 76–77, 85

policy, 76–77

wages in, 85

see also Irrigation

Ahmad, Shamshad, 242, 252

AIADMK see All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

AIDS, 12n.5, 172–73, 173n.28, 194, 243

AIF see American Indian Foundation

Air cargo industry, 81

Airlines, 73

Air pollution, 166, 179–80

Air traffic controllers, 248

Air travel, 59

Albright, Madeleine, 8

Alexander, Meena, 214

All About H. Hatterr (Desani), 203

Allahabad High Court, 231

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), 22, 23, 25, 29, 232, 235, 241, 250, 251, 271

All India Congress Committee (1998), 28, 233

Allopathic doctors, 183

Alopa Networks, 104

Ambedkar, Bhim Rao, 129–30

Ambedkar Villages Scheme, 145

Amber Networks, 104

American Indian Foundation (AIF), 109–10

Amoebic dysentery, 165

Anand, Mulk Raj, 202

Andhra ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Editors' Note
• Map of South Asia
• Map of India
• Introduction
• Politics in India's Decentered Polity
• The Indian Economy: Pushing Ahead and Pulling Apart
• From Bangalore to Silicon Valley and Back: How the Indian Diaspora in the United States Is Changing India
• The Subordinate Caste Revolution
• The Challenges of India's Health and Health Care Transitions
• Representing India: Indian Literature on the World Stage
• 1998-2000: A Chronology
• Abbreviations and Glossary
• About the Contributors
• Index