Changing Contexts and Shifting Roles of the Indian State

Analyzes the seemingly contradictory roles of the state in undertaking major state-sponsored social programs and the opening up of greater spaces for the market

Delves into the dynamic relationship between the state and the form of democracy under changing political regimes Discusses the state's engagements with both economic development and welfare

Auteur
Anthony P. D'Costa is the Eminent Scholar in Global Studies and Professor of Economics at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Previously he was the Chair and Professor of Contemporary Indian Studies, and Director of the Development Studies Program at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne. He was also affiliated with the University's Australia India Institute for three years. During 200813, he was the Research Director and A.P. Moller-Maersk Professor of Indian Studies, Asia Research Centre at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He was also with the University of Washington for 18 years. He has written extensively on the political economy of steel, auto, and IT industries covering themes of capitalism and globalization, economic and social development, business dynamics and innovations, and industrial restructuring. Currently his work focuses on employment challenges in late industrializing India and is working on a new framework called compressed capitalism. His recent books are After-Development Dynamics: South Korea's Contemporary Engagement with Asia (edited, OUP, 2015), International Mobility, Global Capitalism, and Changing Structures of Accumulation: Transforming the Japan-India IT Relationship (Routledge, 2016), and The Land Question in India: State, Dispossession, and Capitalist Transition (coedited, OUP, 2017). He has published in World Development, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of International Development, Review of International Political Economy, Economic and Political Economy, Asian Business and Management, Industrial and Corporate Change, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, and Critical Asian Studies, among others. He has been a fellow of the American Institute of Indian Studies, Fulbright-Hays, Korea Foundation, Social Science Research Council, UN World Institute of Development Economics Research, Helsinki; Abe (Japan Foundation), and the EastWest Center in Honolulu.
Achin Chakraborty is a Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute of Development Studies in Kolkata, India. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of California at Riverside, USA, in 1995. His areas of research interest include welfare economics, microeconomic issues in development economics, human development, health economics, environmental economics, and methodology of economics. He was earlier on the faculty of the Centre for Development Studies in Kerala. He has published widely in such journals as Economic Theory, Social Indicators Research, Journal of Quantitative Economics, Environment and Development Economics, Economic and Political Weekly, and others. He has co-edited with Anthony D'Costa the recently published book The Land Question in India: State, Dispossession and Capitalist Transition (OUP, 2017).

Contenu

Chapter 1. Changing Contexts, Shifting Roles, and the Recasting of the Role of the Indian State: An Introduction (Anthony P. D'Costa).- Part 1: Theorizing the State's Changing Role in a Changing Context.- Chapter 2. From Passive Beneficiary to 'Rights Claimant': What Difference Does It Make? (Achin Chakraborty).- Chapter 3. Emerging Regimes of Market Citizenship: The Politics of Social Policy in Contemporary India (Priya Chacko).- Chapter 4. An Examination of the Indian State in the Post-Planning Period (Anjan Chakrabarti).- Part 2: Shifting Roles of the State.- Chapter 5. Including the Excluded: Inclusive Economic Growth in India after 2004 (Matthew McCartney).- Chapter 6. Social Protection and the State in India: The Challenge of Extracting Accountability (Salim Lakha).- Chapter 7. Compressed Capitalism and a Critical Reading of the State's Employment Challenges (Anthony P. D'Costa).- Chapter 8. Distinctively Dysfunctional: 'State Capitalism 2.0' and the Indian Power Sector (Elizabeth Chatterjee).- Part 3: State and Contested Forms of Governance.- Chapter 9. Re-reading the `Auto Revolution' in India with a Labour Lens: Shifting Roles and Positions of State, Industry and Workers (Babu P. Remesh).- Chapter 10. Engaging Rural Indian Interventions: Constructing Local Governance through Resource Access and Authority (Siddharth Sareen).- Chapter 11. Penetrative or Embracive? Exploring State, Surveillance and Democracy in India (P. Arun).