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Title The state in India after liberalization : interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Akhil Gupta and K. Sivaramakrishnan
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 236 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 31
Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 31.
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
Summary "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"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Liberalism -- India
Democracy -- India
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
Democracy
Economic history
Liberalism
Politics and government
Social conditions
Wirtschaftsordnung
Liberalisierung
SUBJECT India -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064951
India -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064892
India -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064936
Subject India
Indien
Indien -- politik och förvaltning.
Form Electronic book
Author Gupta, Akhil, 1959-
Sivaramakrishnan, K., 1957-
LC no. 2010003330
ISBN 9780203846858
0203846850