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The state in India after liberalization : interdisciplinary perspectives
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The state in India after liberalization : interdisciplinary perspectives

Author: Akhil Gupta; K Sivaramakrishnan
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Series: Routledge contemporary South Asia series, 31.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This book assesses the impact of liberalization on practices of government and relations between state and society. It is clear that liberalization as state policy has complex forms of regulation and deregulation inbuilt, and these policies have resulted in dramatic increases in productivity and economic wealth but also generated spectacular new forms of inequality between social groups, regions, and sectors... --  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
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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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  Read more...

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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 Read more...

 
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