Sejuti Das Gupta

Class, Politics, and Agrarian Policies in Post-liberalisation India

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Produktbeschreibung

Studies the changing political economy of India post liberalisation in the 90s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9781108416283
• ISBN-10: 1108416284
• Artikelnr.: 53776790

Autorenporträt

Sejuti Das Gupta teaches at James Madison College, Michigan State University. Her research interests are agrarian political economy, public policy, class-caste and state-society interactions. She has worked at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and in the development sector in India.

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Policy-making, class factor, and political settlement: setting the theoretical framework
3. Privatising the inputs of production: a case of careful choice by beneficiaries and losers
4. Chhattisgarh: new state, new opportunities for old class domination
5. Gujarat: strong state-directed capitalism across sectors
6. Karnataka: state patronage, market opportunism, and urban-rural closing gap
7. State in action, political settlement, and the agrarian flux
Bibliography.