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Changing Contexts and Shifting Roles of the Indian State - New Perspectives on Development Dynamics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Changing Contexts and Shifting Roles of the Indian State - New Perspectives on Development Dynamics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Dynamics of Asian Development
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This book critically discusses the changing relationship between
the Indian state and capital by examining the mediating role of
society in influencing developmental outcomes. It theorizes the
state's changing context allowing the discussion of its pursuit of
contradictory economic and social welfare goals simultaneously.
Both structural and ideological factors are argued to contribute to
a shifting context, but the centrality of re-distributive politics
and the contradictions therein explain a lot of what the state does
and cannot do. The book also examines what the state aspires to do
but structurally cannot accomplish either because of the scale of
the problem or the dysfunctionality that sets in with continuous
reforms. The collection provides rich evidence on the contested
forms of governance arising from changing contexts and shifting
roles of the state. Readers will benefit from this recasting of the
Indian state in terms of the actual forms of intervention today.
Changing Contexts and Shifting Roles of the Indian State is a
timely book. At a time when the question of the role of the state
in promoting more inclusive forms of development has never been
more urgent, this book provides a range of powerful and insightful
case studies of how a changing Indian capitalism is impacting and
in turn being impacted by the multi-stranded role of the Indian
state. Patrick Heller, Professor of Sociology and International
Affairs, Brown University, Providence. Since the early 1990s, the
Indian economy has moved away from a statist model of development
to a more market-oriented one. However, very little scholarship
exists that attempts to analyse India's recent development
experience from a political economy lens. This book, which is
edited by two of India's reputed scholars in the political economy
of development, addresses this important gap in the literature. It
provides an insightful account of the role of the state and the
market in India's economic resurgence in the last three decades.
The book also contributes to a fresh understanding of what is meant
by a twenty-first century developmental state in a globalised
world. The book will be valuable reading for all scholars of India,
as well as to researchers in the political economy of development.
Kunal Sen, Director, United Nations University - World Institute
for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki. This
collection gives us a richer and more layered understanding of the
Indian contemporary State. Rather than see the State as an
unchanging entity with unchanging interests, the book argues that
the role of the State changes with the context and with the change
in political regime. Thus, taking contradictory decisions such as
greater dispossession of land from the peasantry and expansion of
the universe of economic rights is explainable. The argument is
that we can have a better understanding when we see the Indian
State as dealing with the ebb and flow of a democracy. C.
Rammanohar Reddy, Former Editor, Economic and Political Weekly,
Mumbai.
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