Changing contexts and shifting roles of the Indian state :
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[Book]
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new perspectives on development dynamics /
First Statement of Responsibility
editors, Anthony P. D'Acosta, Achin Chakraborty.
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Singapore :
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Springer,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2019]
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1 online resource
SERIES
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Dynamics of Asian development,
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2198-9931
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Intro; Preface and Acknowledgements; Contents; Editors and Contributors; Acronyms; 1 Changing Contexts, Shifting Roles, and the Recasting of the Role of the Indian State: An Introduction; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Growth, Welfare, and the Shifting Role of the State; 1.3 Changing Contexts, Rights, and New Roles; 1.4 Recasting the Indian State Today; 1.5 Chapter Descriptions; References; Theorizing the State's Changing Role in a Changing Context; 2 From Passive Beneficiary to 'Rights Claimant': What Difference Does It Make?; 2.1 Introduction
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2.2 Approaches to Poverty Alleviation and Human Development2.3 From State Provisioning to Rights Realisation as a Normative Goal; 2.4 From Normative to Political; 2.5 Towards an Understanding of the State and Welfare in India; 2.6 Conclusion; References; 3 Emerging Regimes of Market Citizenship: The Politics of Social Policy in Contemporary India; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Variegated Market Citizenship; 3.3 Contesting Social Policy: The Turn to Rights; 3.4 Social Democratic Market Citizenship; 3.5 Virtuous Market Citizenship; 3.6 Conclusion; References
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4 An Examination of Indian State in the Post-planning Period4.1 Neoliberal Globalization and the Political Economy of Reform; 4.2 Global Capitalism and the New Indian Economic Map; 4.3 State of Exception and Legal Right of Violence; 4.4 Class, Social Needs and Development; 4.5 Social Needs, Public Policy and the Indian State; 4.6 Food Security Debate: A Class-Need Reinterpretation; 4.7 Conclusion; References; Shifting Roles of the State; 5 Including the Excluded: Inclusive Economic Growth in India After 2004; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Growth Without Development: The Numbers
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5.3 How to Explain Growth Without Development5.3.1 The Pattern of Economic Growth; 5.3.2 An Elite Revolt; 5.3.3 Discrimination; 5.3.4 The State and Liberalisation; 5.4 Something Changed in the Mid-2000s ... ; 5.5 Explaining the Change; 5.5.1 Improved Information; 5.5.2 Revolt of the Activists; 5.5.3 Politics in the 2000s; 5.6 Conclusion; References; 6 Social Protection and the State in India: The Challenge of Extracting Accountability; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 A Continuing Role for the Developmental State; 6.3 Social Protection and the Rights-Based Discourse; 6.4 Accountability Under MGNREGS
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6.5 ConclusionReferences; 7 Compressed Capitalism and a Critical Reading of the State's Employment Challenges; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Compressed Capitalism and the Framing of Employment Challenges; 7.3 Late Capitalism and the Employment Question; 7.3.1 The Limits of Industrialization Strategy; 7.3.2 Agrarian Transition and Employment; 7.3.3 Informality as Employment of Last Resort; 7.4 State Thinking on and a Critical Reading of Employment Creation; 7.5 Compressed Capitalism and the Remaking of the State; 7.5.1 The Indian State and Economic Growth
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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 pursuit of contradictory economic and social welfare goals simultaneously. Both structural and ideological factors are argued to contribute to a shifting context, but the centrality of re-distributive politics and the contradictions therein explain a lot of what the state does and cannot do. The book also examines what the state aspires to do but structurally cannot accomplish either because of the scale of the problem or the dysfunctionality that sets in with continuous reforms. The collection provides rich evidence on the contested forms of governance arising from changing contexts and shifting roles of the state. Readers will benefit from this recasting of the Indian state in terms of the actual forms of intervention today.