Description: These essays reflect the core argument about the proper relationship between the state and the market. They offer alternative perspectives on the nature, evolution, ideological bias and structural imperatives of the state; contending judgements on the impact of economic restructuring; an examination of the agrarian structure as a result of land-reform legislation; responses to the nature of changes in India society; the various aspects of Muslim personal law, its diversity of interpretation and its relationship to the Indian state; the changed global environment for policy-making, etc. All these essays are concerned with the present and have been written by leading Indian thinkers with diverse ideological, academic and professional backgrounds.

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