01503 a2200157 4500 20260609152528.0 260609b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781009668378 Tillin, Louise 120890 Making India work: The development of welfare in a multi-level democracy Cambridge University Press ; New Delhi; 2025 xii, 151 pages; Welfare politics take centre stage in India's electoral landscape today. Direct benefits and employment generation form the mainstays of social provision, while most citizens lack dependable rights to sickness leave, pensions, maternity benefits or unemployment insurance. But how did this system evolve? Louise Tillin traces the origins and development of India's welfare regime, recovering a history previously relegated to the margins of scholarship on the political economy of development. Her deeply researched analysis, spanning from the early twentieth century to the present, captures long-term patterns of continuity and change against a backdrop of nation-building, economic change, and democratisation. Making India Work demonstrates that while patronage and resource constraints have undermined the provision of public goods, Indian workers, employers, politicians and bureaucrats have long debated what an Indian 'welfare state' should look like. The ideas and principles shaping earlier policies remain influential today. 62471 BK 136771 136771 2026-06-12 11:49:20 1 338.954 TIL 34174 2026-07-12 2026-06-12 2026-06-09 BK 172726 0 ddc 0 338_954000000000000_TIL 0 0 ISEC ISEC 2026-06-09 ES