India Briefing, 1991

Philip Oldenburg is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He is the author of Big City Government in India: Councilor, Administration, and Citizen in India (1976) and of numerous articles, most recently Land Consolidation as Land Reform, in India, World Development (1990).

• Preface -- Introduction -- Politics: How Threatening a Crisis? -- India As a Great Power: Perceptions and Prospects -- The Indian Economy: Muddling Through in a Year of Turmoil -- Dalit: New Perspectives on India’s Untouchables -- Kashmir’s Agony -- Census of 1991— Provisional Figures