The Political Economy of Communications in Post-colonial India: 1948–1985

2014 ◽  
pp. 51-69
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial India

scholarly journals The Indian Republic as Governance Guru to the European Union: Does the Subcontinent Offer the Continent a Model for Managing Diversity?

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm MacLaren
Keyword(s):  
Political Community ◽  
The Political ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Constitutional Treaty ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
Managing Diversity ◽  
Unity In Diversity ◽  
The Common

The development and working of governance in post-colonial India provides insights into and lessons for the actual European project of integration. The Republic’s founders coined the slogan ‘unity in diversity’, and their creation has enjoyed considerable (unexpected) success in managing linguistic, religious, ethnic, and territorial diversities. In contrast, the Union’s leaders are still struggling to constitute a political community, as the failure of the draft constitutional treaty made clear.Considering wider dimensions of managing cultural diversity, the paper follows the thesis that in political integration projects, law matters and politics does too, but that the political culture prevailing matters most. The success (or failure) of such attempts is ultimately determined not by the framework rules, institutions, and procedures but by the common (or divergent) values, attitudes, and goals of the political actors involved.

The Political Economy of the Raj: The Decline of Colonialism

1982 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. R. Tomlinson
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
British Empire ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Management ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Choices ◽  
New Perspective

Taking a fresh look at the institutions of economic management in colonial India explains much about the history of the last decades of the raj. The concept of political economy—the interaction of economic forces and political choices—provides a useful approach to the study of government economic policy and practice that can give a new perspective on the history of the late British Empire as a whole.

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