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POLITICSState-DirectedDevelopment: PoliticalPower andIndustrialization in theGlobal PeripheryAtul KohliWhy have some developingcountry states been moresuccessful at facilitatingindustrialization than others? Ananswer to this question isdeveloped by focusing both onpatterns of state construction and intervention aimed atpromoting industrialization. Four countries are analyzed indetail - South Korea, Brazil, India, and Nigeria - over thetwentieth century. The states in these countries varied fromcohesive-capitalist (mainly in Korea), through fragmentedmulticlass(mainly in India), to neo-patrimonial (mainly inNigeria). It is argued that cohesive-capitalist states havebeen most effective at promoting industrialization and neopatrimonialstates the least. The performance offragmented-multiclass states falls somewhere in the middle.Atul Kohli is the David K.E. Bruce Professor of InternationalAffairs at Princeton University.9780521672825 478pp PB ` 595.00Gandhi: ‘Hind Swaraj’ andOther WritingsCentenary EditionAnthony J. Parel (ed)Hind Swaraj is Mahatma Gandhi’sfundamental work. Not only is itkey to understanding his life andthoughts, but also the politics ofSouth Asia in the first half of thetwentieth century. Celebrating 100years since Hind Swaraj was firstpublished in a newspaper, thiscentenary edition includes a newPreface and Editor’s Introduction, as well as a new chapteron ‘Gandhi and the ‘Four Canonical Aims of Life”. The volumepresents a critical edition of the 1910 text of Hind Swaraj,fully annotated and including Gandhi’s own Preface andForeword (not found in other editions). Anthony J. Parel setsthe work in its historical and political contexts and analysesthe significance of Gandhi’s experiences in England andSouth Africa. The second part of the volume contains someof Gandhi’s other writings, including his correspondencewith Tolstoy and Nehru.Anthony J. Parel is Emeritus Professor of Political Science atthe University of Calgary.9780521149143 294pp PB ` 395.00Gandhi as Disciple andMentorThomas WeberThomas Weber’s book comprises aseries of biographical reflectionsabout people who influencedGandhi, and those who were, inturn, influenced by him. While theprevious literature has tended tofocus on Gandhi’s political legacy,Weber’s book explores thespiritual, social and philosophicalresonances of these relationships,and it is with these aspects of the Mahatma’s life in mind,that the author selects his central protagonists. Theseinclude friends such as Henry Polak and HermannKallenbach, who are not as well known as those usuallycited, but who left a deep impression nevertheless, andmotivated some of Gandhi’s major life changes. Conversely,the work of luminaries such as E.F. Schumacher and GeneSharp reveal the Mahatma’s influence in arenas which arenot traditionally associated with his thinking. Weber’s bookoffers new and intriguing insights into the life and thoughtof one of the most significant figures of the twentiethcentury.Thomas Weber teaches politics and peace studies at LaTrobe University.9788175964327 294pp PB ` 350.00The Success of India’sDemocracyAtul Kohli (ed)How has democracy taken root inIndia in the face of a low-incomeeconomy, poverty, illiteracy andethnic diversity? Leading scholarsexplore this intriguing anomaly.Themes addressed include politics,ethnicity, federalism, caste, poverty,and Hindu nationalism. This is atightly conceived volume on acontroversial topic for studentsand generalists.Atul Kohli is Professor of Politics and International Affairs atPrinceton University.5 tables9788175961074 312pp PB ` 395.0034 order online at www.cambridgeindia.org