The book surveys and analyzes the economic, political and cultural changes which have taken place in India since its independence. Includes 17 essays by younger Indian scholars and a few western specialists, presented at a 1997 Sussex conference, on Gadhi, literature, dalits, Hyderabad, poverty, economics, women, and a final section on the arts including art, cinema, architecutre and post-colonial issues. It provides dynamic new insights into the half-century since independence.
