<P>This book assesses the impact of liberalization on practices of government and relations between state and society. It is clear that liberalization as state policy has complex forms of regulation and deregulation inbuilt, and these policies have resulted in dramatic increases in productivity and
The State in India After Liberalization
β Scribed by Akhil Gupta; K. Sivaramakrishnan
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 253
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This book assesses the changing nature of the state in the period after liberalization in India. It includes detailed analysis of its implications for important issues such as inequality, poverty, basic needs provision, citizenship, federalism and democratization.
β¦ Table of Contents
Book Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Figures and tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The state in India after liberalization
Part I: The Indian state as moral and political economy
1 On the enchantment of the state: Indian thought on the role of the state in the narrative of modernity
2 An institutional perspective on the post-liberalization state in India
Part II: Citizens, sociality, and association
3 States of empowerment
4 βNew Politicsβ and the governmentality of the post-liberalization state in India: An ethnographic perspective
Part III: Liberalization, the state, and the experience of poverty
5 Poverty knowledge and poverty action in India
6 βMoney itself discriminates: βObstetric crises in the time of liberalization
Part IV: Law, identity, and rights
7 Normative vision, cultural accommodation and Muslim law reform in India
8 The rule of law and the rule of property: Law-struggles and the neo-liberal state in India
Part V: Enterprising citizens
9 The terms of trade: Competition and cooperation in neoliberal North India
10 Becoming entrepreneurial subjects: Neoliberalism and media
Index
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