Indias Social and Political Landscape Has, in Recent Times, Witnessed Many Significant Transformations. This Book offers A Wideranging Review of How India Has, Over The Last Few Years, Fared On The Most Critical Dimensions of Our Collective Lifepolitics, Economy, Governance, Development, Culture and Society.the Project of Change Entailed Processes of Both Reform and Reformation If Reform Was About Correcting Or Improving What Was Considered Unsatisfactory, Reformation Was A Bolder Project That Aimed To Construct anew, anchored in A Fundamental Revisioning of India in Social, Cultural and Even Moral Terms. in Many Ways, The Programme of Reforming India May Have Outpaced That of Reforming India and Even Exceeded Its Own Expectations.this Volume Provides an Overview of The Prevailing Political Imaginary of Nationalism and of The Current Trends of Public Discourse in Indian Democracy, It Seeks To Identify and interpret The Transformations in State institutions and The Public Sphere and Evaluate Their Implications for The Future.reforming India Brings Together Reflections, From Leading Commentators in Their Fields, On Some of These Transformationsfrom The Promise of Economic Revival and Demonetization To The Impact On Gender Relations, Higher Education and The Media. Has The Country Been Transformed in Ways That Were Promised Or indeed in Other Ways That Had Not Been anticipatedwith Essays From Smita Gupta, Ashok K. Lahiri, C. Rammanohar Reddy, indira Rajaraman, Radhicka Kapoor, Prem Shankar Jha, Harish Damodaran, A. K. Bhattacharya, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Yamini Aiyar, Yogendra Yadav, Diane Coffey, anirudh Krishna, Navroz K. Dubash, Shibani Ghosh, Madhav Khosla, Ramachandra Guha, Srinath Raghavan, Ashutosh Varshney, Suhas Palshikar, anand Teltumbde, Pratiksha Baxi, Amitabh Behar, Sanjay Srivastava, Surinder S. Jodhka, Ravindra Karnena, Niraja Gopal Jayal, Gautam Bhatia Lawyer, Ravish Kumar, Taberez Ahmed Neyazi, Neera Chandhoke, Apoorvanand, Gautam Bhatia Architect, Siddhartha Chatterjee and Chandrika Grover Ralleigh. Product Description about The Author niraja Gopal Jayal is Professor At The Centre for The Study of Law and Governance At The Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her Book, Citizenship and Its Discontents Harvard University Press, 2013, Won The ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize of The Association of Asian Studies in 2015. She is Also The Author of Representing India Ethnic Diversity and The Governance of Public institutions Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 and Democracy and The State Welfare, Secularism and Development in Contemporary India Oup, 1999. She Has Coedited The Oxford Companion To Politics in India, and is The Editor, Coeditor of, Among Others, Democracy in India Oup, 2001 and Local Governance in India Decentralisation and Beyond Oup 2005. she is Currently Working On A Book On The Decline of The Public University in India. She Has Held Visiting Appointments At, Among Others, Kings College, London, The Ehess, Paris, Princeton University, and The University of Melbourne. in 2009, She Delivered The Radhakrishnan Memorial Lecture At All Souls College, Oxford.