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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Akhil Gupta; K Sivaramakrishnan |
| ISBN: | 9780415775533 0415775531 9780203846858 0203846850 |
| OCLC Number: | 179814635 |
| Description: | xv, 236 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The State in India after Liberalization / Akhil Gupta and K. Sivaramakrishnan -- Part 1: The Indian State as Moral and Political Economy -- 1. On the Enchantment of the State / Sudipto Kaviraj -- 2. An Institutional Perspective on the Post-liberalization State in India / Aseema Sinha -- Part 2: Citizens, Sociality, and Association -- 3. States of Empowerment / Aradhana Sharma -- 4. 'New Politics' and the Governmentality of the Post-liberalization State in India: An Ethnographic Perspective / John Harriss -- Part 3: Liberalization, the State, and the Experience of Poverty -- 5. Poverty Knowledge and Poverty Action in India / Anirudh Krishna -- 6. 'Money Itself Discriminates': Obstetric Crises in the Time of Liberalization / Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery -- Part 4: Law, Identity, and Rights -- 7. Normative Vision, Cultural Accommodation and Muslim Law Reform in India / Narendra Subramanian -- 8. The Rule of Law and the Rule of Property: Law-Struggles and the Neo-Liberal State in India / Nandini Sundar -- Part 5: Enterprising Citizens -- 9. The Terms of Trade: Competition and Cooperation in Neoliberal North India / Kriti Kapilla -- 10. Becoming Entrepreneurial Subjects: Neoliberalism and Media / Purnima Mankekar. |
| Series Title: | Routledge contemporary South Asia series, 31. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Akhil Gupta and K. Sivaramakrishnan. |
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Abstract:
Assesses the impact of liberalization on practices of government and relations between state and society. Focusing on what specifically has changed about the state after liberalization in India, this volume deals with comparative questions about the process of neoliberal restructuring across the world.
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"The contributions to this volume provide a colourful panorama of life in 'liberalized' India. The state is not always directly visible in these contributions, but the changed conditions of political life in the 'new' India are well illustrated by all those who have summed up their interesting field work in this publication." - Dietmar Rothermund, H-Soz-u-Kult, 2011 Read more...
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