This collection of essays by leading social scientists focuses on development in India to explore the emergence of "regional modernities" in ways that are distinct from a so-called global modernity and its myriad local variations. The authors emphasize the continued importance of the nation-state, as it enacts development projects and policies, in considering regional formations of modernity...."This is a well-conceived and well-executed anthropological collection of essays."--Lakshmi R. Iyer, United States Department of Agriculture
"This collection sets a very high standard of scholarship in the social science literature on development and modernity. Individually and collectively, the essays in this volume will challenge and provoke scholars engaged in the critique of development in India and elsewhere."--Journal of Asian Studies