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A magisterial class based analysis of the political situation in contemporary India
List of contents
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
About the author
Raju J. Das is Professor at York University, Toronto. His teaching and research interests are in political economy, class relations, the state, uneven development, poverty, and politics of the Right and the Left. His most recent book is
The Challenges of the New Social Democracy (Brill, 2023).
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A magisterial class based analysis of the political situation in contemporary India
