Theory, Policy, Practice: Development and Discontents in India

✍ Scribed by Suman Nath (editor), Debraj Bhattacharya (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge India
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 295
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores the meanings and perceptions of development and the dialectics of theory, policy and practice. It looks at how theory translates into policy, and the disconnections in its design and implementation in the Indian context.

The book focuses on the influence of capitalist globalisation, democratisation, decentralisation and neoliberal economic reforms on the development discourse in India and how these have challenged the traditional role of the ‘state’, the meaning of citizenship, and public participation. Through an analysis of case studies from various parts of the country, it bridges the gap between policy prescriptions and practices and unpacks the institutional, political and policy-led compulsions and incompatibilities which most often remain unreported. It also discusses the intersections between policymaking and the politics of class, caste and gender, and emphasises the role bureaucracy plays in institutional governance.

The volume includes articles from professionals ranging from academics, practitioners and activists. It will be of interest to scholars and researchers of public policy, development studies, South Asian politics, and economics as well as policy makers and practitioners in government and civil society.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 Institutional environment and organisational responses in changing decentralised governance systems in India: An ethnographic study
Chapter 2 The Community Development Block and India’s development discourse
Chapter 3 Urban restructuring, forced evictions and transition of the welfare city into entrepreneurial city: The case study of Bawana resettlement colony, Delhi
Chapter 4 Mapping the development paradigm of Northeast India from ancient past to present in the realm of political history and economy
Chapter 5 A Multisited ethnography of land management in the context of the development policy in West Bengal
Chapter 6 Revisiting Wittfogel: “Hydraulic society” in colonial India and its post-colonial legacies in hydropower management
Chapter 7 Re-contextualising microcredit: From reinventing development to the financialisation of everyday life
Chapter 8 The making of a neglected tropical disease: Discourse on snakebite and its medical management in India
Chapter 9 Negotiation by the waste pickers : In the context of socioeconomic and cultural marginalisation 
Chapter 10 Dominant party rule, development and the rise of Hindu nationalism in West Bengal
Chapter 11 Harnessing the digital revolution for development: The Indian experience
Chapter 12 Organisation structure of family-owned and controlled business groups in India: Some reflections on theories and policies of corporate governance
Appendix
Index