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1 online resource (187 pages) |
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Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 75 |
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Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 75.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of maps and tables; Acknowledgements; 1. The politics of economic restructuring in India; 1.1. Introducing the core topics; 1.2. Theoretical foundations; 1.3. A hybrid conceptual framework; 1.4. Positioning this research; 1.5. Presenting the volume; 2. Nation-building and scale in India's federal polity; 2.1. Institutional infrastructure of India's federal system; 2.2. State scaling in the service of a national development strategy |
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2.3. Policy space at the State level; 2.4. Political economy of multilevel policy-making; 2.5. Scales for political society and collective action; 2.6. The emergence of regional parties; 2.7. Conclusion; 3. The politics and scales of economic reforms; 3.1. The substance of India's economic reforms; 3.2. Sovereignty issues: the decision to reform in 1991; 3.3. A first phase of policy reform in the 1980s; 3.4. Policy-making in a multiscalar framework; 3.5. The politics of reforms; 3.6. Regional political systems; 3.7 Conclusion |
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4. Reforms and the rescaling of state spaces; 4.1. Subnational states in the rescaling literature; 4.2. Competitive regions: promotional policies for industrial development; 4.3. Changing perceptions of subnational territory; 4.4. Reform of States' public finances and central directives; 4.5. Fiscal scope and subnational state capacity; 4.6. Analytical narratives of State-level reforms; 4.7. Conclusion; 4.8. Appendix; 5. State spatial strategies via Special Economic Zones; 5.1. India's revamped SEZ policy |
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5.2. Economic performance and spatial effects of SEZs; 5.3. Rescaling economic regulation; 5.4. Implementing the SEZ policy in a multiscalar state;.5.5. Land -- a State a 'subject'?; 5.6. State-level strategies for developing SEZs; 5.7. Anti-SEZ mobilisation and policy responsiveness; 5.8. Conclusion; 5.9. Appendix; 6. State spaces and changing urban scales; 6.1. Entrepreneurialism and urban governance: engaging with the literature; 6.2. Policy neglect and the 'urban turn'; 6.3. Decentralisation and territorial reorganisation |
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6.4. Metropolitan rescaling: the making of 'Greater Hyderabad'; 6.5. Sub-municipal scales -- new geographies of urban services; 6.6. Cyberabad Development Area -- a spatial instrument; 6.7. Conclusion; 6.8. Appendix; 7. Conclusion: the politics of economic and state restructuring in India; 7.1. Institutions, social processes and space; 7.2. Reconfiguration of state spatial scales; 7.3. Scalar effects of economic reforms and post-reform strategies; 7.4. Economic policy-making at subnational scales |
| Summary |
State re-scaling is the central concept mobilized in this book to interpret the political processes that are producing new economic spaces in India. In the quarter century since economic reforms were introduced, the Indian economy has experienced strong growth accompanied by extensive sectoral and spatial restructuring. This book argues that in this reformed institutional context, where both state spaces and economic geographies are being rescaled, subnational states play an increasingly critical role in coordinating socioeconomic activities. The core thesis that the book defends is that the reform process has profoundly reconfigured the Indian state's rapport with its territory at all spatial scales, and these processes of state spatial rescaling are crucial for comprehending emerging patterns of economic governance and growth. It demonstrates that the outcomes of India's new policy regime are not only the product of impersonal market forces, but that they are also the result of endogenous political strategies, acting in conjunction with the territorial reorganisation of economic activities at various scales, ranging from local to global. Extensive empirical case material, primarily from field-based research, is used to support these theoretical assertions. Scholars of political economy, political and economic geography, industrial development, development studies and Asian Studies will find this a stimulating and innovative contribution to the study of the political economy in the developing countries -- Provided by Publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Economic development -- India
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Industrial policy -- India
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Economic development
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Economic policy
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Geography
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Industrial policy
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Politics and government
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India -- Economic policy -- 1991-2016.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003007131
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India -- Geography
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India -- Politics and government -- 1984-
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India
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315858869 |
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131585886X |
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1306218438 |
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9781306218436 |
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9781317937975 |
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131793797X |
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