Changing Contexts and Shifting Roles of the Indian State
Subtitle: New Perspectives on Development Dynamics
Publisher: Springer
Published: Apr 27, 2019
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9789811368905
Description: 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.
Notes: Source title: Changing Contexts and Shifting Roles of the Indian State: New Perspectives on Development Dynamics (Dynamics of Asian Development)