科研成果详情

This study is the outcome of a one-month-long research trip to New Dehli in the year 2000. The paper addresses the relationship between national building and the functioning of the State on the one hand and the making of the Indian welfare system as it is today. At the same time – and, more importantly – the author looks at the connection between State and the relative absence and failure of social policies in India. In this study, the author applies a political, historical-institutional approach in tracing the determinants for the successes/failures of India’s welfare system. The paper concludes that the political outcome of the 1950 constitutional compromise and the unrelenting social, lingual, religious, and cultural disunity of the country, in fact, are chiefly responsible for the delay, the failure and the relative absence of social policies, and as a result a decent welfare system, in India.