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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811647403321

Titolo

The state in India after liberalization : interdisciplinary perspectives / / edited by Akhil Gupta and K. Sivaramakrishnan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon, England ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-93719-6

1-136-93720-X

1-282-91316-6

9786612913167

0-203-84685-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Collana

Routledge contemporary South Asia series

Altri autori (Persone)

GuptaAkhil <1959->

SivaramakrishnanK. <1957->

Disciplina

320.954

Soggetti

Democracy - India

Liberalism - India

India Economic conditions

India Politics and government

India Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The state in India after liberalization; Part I: The Indian state as moral and political economy; 1 On the enchantment of the state: Indian thought on the role of the state in the narrative of modernity; 2 An institutional perspective on the post-liberalization state in India; Part II: Citizens, sociality, and association; 3 States of empowerment; 4 'New Politics' and the governmentality of the post-liberalization state in India: An ethnographic perspective

Part III: Liberalization, the state, and the experience of poverty5 Poverty knowledge and poverty action in India; 6 "Money itself discriminates: "Obstetric crises in the time of liberalization; Part IV: Law, identity, and rights; 7 Normative vision, cultural accommodation and Muslim law reform in India; 8 The rule of law and the rule of property: Law-



struggles and the neo-liberal state in India; Part V: Enterprising citizens; 9 The terms of trade: Competition and cooperation in neoliberal North India; 10 Becoming entrepreneurial subjects: Neoliberalism and media; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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. Through a detailed examination of the Indian state, the contributors - all experts in their respective fields - explore questions such as: Have the new inequa