Locked in Place
Subtitle: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: October 13, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780691096599
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Development economics; Economic theory & philosophy; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; History - General History; Asia - Korea; Industrialization; History: World; India; Korea; Asia - India; Economic History; Asian and Asian American Studies; History / India; Political Science and International Relations; Asia - India & South Asia; 20th century; History; Industrial policy; Korea (South)
First sentence: AMID THE ENORMOUS diversity of experience across developing countries since the Second World War, India has managed to stand out.
Description: "During the 1950s and 1960s, India launched an extremely ambitious and highly regarded program of state-led development. But it soon became clear that the Indian state lacked the institutional capacity to carry out rapid industrialization. Drawing on newly available archival sources, Vivek Chibber mounts a forceful challenge to conventional arguments by showing that the insufficient state capacity stemmed mainly from Indian industrialists' massive campaign, in the years after Independence, against a strong developmental state." "Chibber contrasts India's experience with the success of a similar program of state-building in South Korea, where political elites managed to harness domestic capitalists to their agenda. He then develops a theory of the structural conditions that can account for the different reactions of Indian and Korean capitalists as rational responses to the distinct development models adopted in each country." "This book is also the first historical study of India's post-colonial industrial strategy. Emphasizing the central role of capital in the state-building process, and restoring class analysis to the core of the political economy of development, Locked in Place is an innovative work of theoretical power that will interest development specialists, political scientists, and historians of the subcontinent."--Jacket.