Class, Politics, and Agrarian Policies in Post-Liberalisation India

Informationen zum Autor Sejuti Das Gupta teaches at the Department of Sociology, James Madison College, Michigan State University. She has also taught at the School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India. Her research interests are agrarian economics, agrarian policy and development, political sociology, rural studies, economic growth and liberalisation. Klappentext The book visits the idea of New India, studying how the political economy of India has changed significantly in post-liberalisation India. Vorwort Studies the changing political economy of India post liberalisation in the 90s. Zusammenfassung The book visits the idea of New India, studying how the political economy of India has changed significantly in post-liberalisation India. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Policy-making, class factor, and political settlement: setting the theoretical framework; 3. Privatising the inputs of production: a case of careful choice by beneficiaries and losers; 4. Chhattisgarh: new state, new opportunities for old class domination; 5. Gujarat: strong state-directed capitalism across sectors; 6. Karnataka: state patronage, market opportunism, and urban-rural closing gap; 7. State in action, political settlement, and the agrarian flux; Bibliography.

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• Authors: Sejuti Das Gupta, Sejuti (James Madison College Das Gupta
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2024
• EAN: 9781009481335
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0948133-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, 21st Century, India, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, economic growth, Political Economy, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), For higher / tertiary / university education