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A magisterial class based analysis of the economic situation in contemporary India
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Preface to Paperback Editions
1 Introduction
1 Why Class?
2 Why Not Class – Why Not a Class-Based Analytical Framework?
3 Components of a Class-Based Framework for Understanding Contemporary India
4 The Chapter Outline
2 Class in India
1 Existing Criticisms against Class Analysis of India
2 Existing Approaches to Class in India
3 A Critique of Existing Approaches to Class in India
4 Constructing a Class-Based Framework
5 Conclusion
3 The Capitalist Character of Class Society in Post-colonial India: Moving Beyond the Mode of Production Debate
1 The Development of Capitalist Relations, and the Barriers to This: A Brief Discussion on the Indian Mode of Production Debate
2 A Critique of Some Influential Ideas in the Indian Mode of Production Debate
3 Examining India’s Capitalist Character on the Basis of Marx’s Distinction between Formal and Real Subsumptions of Labor
4 Class Struggle and the (Slow and Uneven) Transition to Real Subsumption of Labor
5 Class Struggle and the ‘Blocked’ Transition to Real Subsumption of Labor
6 Possibilities of, and Limits to, Real Subsumption of Labor
7 Jairus Banaji’s (and Others’) Mistaken Subsumption of Labor Perspective
8 Conclusion
4 Neoliberal Capitalism with Indian Characteristics
1 Neoliberalism: Its General Traits
2 Neoliberalism in India: The Context
3 Neoliberalism with Indian Characteristics: Eight Theses
4 Concluding Comments: What Is to Be Done?
5 Capitalism and Technological Change: Reflections on the Technology-Poverty Relation
1 The Literature on the Green Revolution and Poverty: The Thesis and the Anti-thesis
2 The Literature on the Green Revolution and Poverty: A Critique of Neo-Malthusianism
3 Technology, Population and Poverty: A Contingent Relation
4 The Green Revolution and Poverty in India: An Empirical Analysis
5 Conclusion
6 Low-Wage Neoliberal Capitalism, Social-Cultural Difference, and Nature-Dependent Production
1 Shrimp Aquaculture and the Missing Laborer
2 A Labor-Based Approach to Nature-Dependent Commodity Production
3 The Local, National and the Global Contexts
4 Working for Less and in Poor Conditions: ‘Capital’ Negated
5 Making Sense of Low-Wage Capitalism: From the General to the Locally Specific
6 Conclusion
7 Class Relations, Class Struggle, and the State in India
1 Existing Views on the Indian State: A Critical Review
2 The Indian State and Its Class Base
3 A Coalition/Alliance of Proprietary Classes
4 The Indian State, Lower Classes, and Lower-Class Struggle
5 State Form, State Policy, and Class Struggle
6 The Indian State and the Class Contradictions of Economic Development
7 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Raju J. Das holds a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, Columbus, and is currently a Professor at York University, Toronto. He is the author of
Marxist Class Theory for a Sceptical World.
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A magisterial class based analysis of the economic situation in contemporary India
