TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kim,Heewon
TI  - The struggle for equality: India's Muslims and rethinking the UPA experience 
SN  - 9781108416108
AV  - DS432.M84 K54 2019
U1  - 954.0088/297 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - United Progressive Alliance (India)
KW  - fast
KW  - Muslims
KW  - India
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Equality
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-235) and index
N2  - The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government (2004-14) led by the Congress came to power with a radical agenda for religious minorities. This included legislation and policies against discrimination and disadvantages suffered by religious minorities, especially Muslims, and a new framework for delivering substantive equality of opportunity. This work offers a new interpretation of the UPA's record. In critically re-evaluating the UPA's performance, it uses an institutional policy analysis approach which combines historical institutionalism (and path dependence) with policy analysis. It draws on official sources and extensive interviews with elite administrators and policy makers who were at the core of decision making during the UPA's tenure in office. Detailed case studies are provided of Muslims in public sector employment, the provision of service delivery for Muslim communities in India, and the efforts to create a new legislative framework against communal violence
ER  -