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Soft state; a newspaperman's chronicle of India
- Title
- Soft state; a newspaperman's chronicle of India, by Bernard D. Nossiter.
- Author
- Nossiter, Bernard D.
- Publication
- New York, Harper & Row [1970]
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Details
- Description
- 185 pages map; 22 cm
- Summary
- Critical study of political problems and the traditional social structure in India, with particular reference to the elements constituting obstacles to the promotion of economic development - covers malnutrition, the economic structure, language difficulties, foreign policy, etc., and suggests that, in the long run, economic aid may serve only to increase the suffering of the poverty stricken.
- Subject
- political problem
- tradition
- social structure
- obstacle
- economic development
- malnutrition
- economic structure
- language
- foreign policy
- economic aid
- poverty
- problème politique
- structure sociale
- développement économique
- structure économique
- langage
- politique étrangère
- aide économique
- pauvreté
- problema político
- tradición
- estructura social
- obstáculo
- desarrollo económico
- desnutrición
- estructura económica
- lengua
- política exterior
- ayuda económica
- pobreza
- India
- India
- India > Economic conditions > 20th century
- India > Social conditions > 20th century
- Inde
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Arrival -- Food, Famine and Other Fables -- "A Happy Family Is a Small Family" -- Economics Upside Down -- Controus of the Soft State -- Strife in Calcutta -- Soft State in the Tropics -- The Hard Choice of Language -- Politics in the Soft State -- The Foreign Relation -- India's Vietnam -- The Suspect Foreigner -- Every Man an Island.
- LCCN
- 71123956
- OCLC
- ocm00095316
- 95316
- SCSB-870633
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library