Changing contexts and shifting roles of the Indian state: new perspectives on development dynamics

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 w...

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Weitere Verfasser: D'Costa, Anthony P. 1957- (HerausgeberIn), Chakraborty, Achin (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Singapore Springer [2019]
Schriftenreihe:Dynamics of Asian development
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Im Vorwort: "This volume is based on a conference organized in Kolkata by the Australia India Institute, University of Melbourne, and the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata in December 2015."
Beschreibung:xvii, 236 Seiten
ISBN:9789811368905