Changing Contexts and Shifting Roles of the Indian State New Perspec

This book critically discusses the changing relationship between the Indian state and capital by examining the mediating role of society in influencing developmental outcomes. It theorizes the state’s changing context allowing the discussion of its pursui

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Anthony P. D’Costa Achin Chakraborty Editors

Changing Contexts and Shifting Roles of the Indian State New Perspectives on Development Dynamics

Dynamics of Asian Development Series Editor Anthony P. D’Costa, College of Business, The University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL, USA

Editorial Board Tony Addison, UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, Finland Amiya Bagchi, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, Kolkata, India Amrita Chhachhi, Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Akira Goto, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo, Japan Barbara Harriss-White, Oxford University, Oxford, UK Keun Lee, Department of Economics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (Republic of) R. Nagaraj, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India Rene E. Ofreneo, Center for Labor Justice, University of Philippines, Quezon, Philippines Rajah Rasiah, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Ma Rong, Peking University, Beijing, China Ashwani Saith, Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Gita Sen, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India Andrew Walter, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Christine Wong, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

The series situates contemporary development processes and outcomes in Asia in a global context. State intervention as well as neoliberal policies have created unusual economic and social development opportunities. There are also serious setbacks for marginalized communities, workers, the environment, and social justice. The rise of China, India, and new dynamism of South Korea, Indonesia, and Vietnam in East and South East Asia have given a new meaning to Asian development dynamics. Japan’s energetic ties with India and Vietnam, Korea joining the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee, and China and India’s investments and foreign aid in Africa and Latin America are some of the new processes of development whose impact transcends the vast Asian region. Globalization compounds uneven development, affecting macroeconomic stability, internal and international migration, class and caste dynamics, gender relations, regional parity, education and health, agriculture and rural employment, informal sector, innovation possibilities, and equity. Thus the series views development studies as an unfinished agenda of economic, social, political, cultural interactions, and possible transformations in a fluid policy and global contexts. The editor, with the assistance of a distinguished group of development scholars from Asia and elsewhere specializing in a variety of disciplinary and thematic areas, welcomes proposals that critically assess the above-mentioned wide-ranging developing issues facing Asian societies. With Asia’s contemporary transformation, the series promotes the understanding of Asia’s influence on the prospects of development elsewhere. The editor encourages interdisciplinary, heterodox approaches within the social sciences, and comparati