India's Political Economy, 1947-1977
The Gradual Revolution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2882306 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Baldev Raj Nayar (McGill University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 357 |
| Publication date | 1980-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | India's political economy, 1947-1977: The Gradual Revolution, Francine R Frankel, 2020 |
| Venue | Pacific Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2757506 |
| OpenAlex | W2082585795 |
| Language | EN |
This book addresses the fundamental paradox of India's political economy: how can the goals of economic growth and reduction of economic and social disparities be reconciled without unleashing the disruptive violence of a direct attack on the propertied castes and classes. The author illuminates the contradiction between the practice of accommodative politics and the commitment to social change that characterized India's development policies. Using data from interviews conducted over a 30-year period, Professor Frankel analyses the strategy of democratic social transformation adapted from Gandhi's two-pronged approach: class accommodation combined with an indirect attack on the social basis of exploitation. She examines the failures in implementation of basic social reform that led India during the post-Nehru period into an economic and political impasse. The author shows how these failures not only limited India's progress toward economic growth and social justice, but also disrupted the political consensus that had made a stable democracy possible. The new chapters engage critically with the economic liberalization programme that India initiated since 1991
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Gentrifying the State, Gentrifying Participation
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Food for Soil, Food for People
Political parties, electoral competition, government expenditures and economic reform in India
The ‘Anti-politics machine’ in India
Success and Failure of Crossbred Cows in India
Religion and Conflict in Modern South Asia
The Institutional Roots of Defective Democracy in the Philippines
Poverty amid Plenty in the New India
State-Directed Development
The social and spatial character of the Indian State
Land as an Intermittent Commodity
‘Not Suspended in Mid-Air’
Historical origins of a ‘caste society’
Production, Circulation, and Accumulation
A Symbol of Freedom
Lineages of the Developmentalist State
The Political Economy of Food
Unraveling the enigma of Indira Gandhi's rise in Indian politics
From Astitva (existence) toward Vyaktitva (identity)
The Civil Liberties Movement in India
Malaysia-Beyond the New Economic Policy
Water out of fire
The nation-state and the challenge of global capitalism
Development and demise
State, Business, and Economic Growth in India
Social welfare through guaranteed wage employment
A dead letter of the statute book’
Commodities must be controlled’
The limits of prescription
Peace and conflict
Learning from the East
Modernizing Peasants and “Master Farmers”
An Archive of Development
State Hindutva and Singapore Confucianism as responses to the decline of the welfare state
Technology and Tricks
Ideas, interests, and the tipping point
India's precarious democracy
Democracy, neoliberalism and growth with equity
Local Agency and Structural Continuity
From the Raj to Independence
Political Field Dynamics and the Elite’s Interest in Democracy
Accountability and Capacity in Developing Country Federalism
On New Social Movements and ‘The Reinvention of India’
Education and the state
A Chicago view of the Indian state
The Jana Sangh and bloc politics, 1967–80
Outsourcing the State? Public–Private Partnerships and Information Technologies in India
Status Allocation in Village India
Integration, the Indian state and STAR TV
Developing the state of a nation in a post-colonial world
Elected local bodies, space, and the governance of market expansion in rural India
The failure of capitalism in Pakistan
The militarization of all Hindudom'? The Bharatiya Janata Party, The bomb, and the political spaces of Hindu nationalism
The State of Political Science and Security Studies of India in the United States
After the Third World? History, destiny and the fate of Third Worldism
From Land to the Tiller to Land Liberalisation
Didi, are you Hindu?' Politics of Secularism in Women's Activism in India
Political Economy and the Analysis of Indian Development
Smugglers of Truth
Rural household industries and poverty in India
Political Neo-Malthusianism and the Progression of India's Green Revolution
Geographical unevenness of India's Green Revolution
Tribal politics, finance and the state
Room to Maneuver in the Middle
Gandhi’s Failure
Informal Organizations as Agents of Change
Mapping Internationalization
Elite strategies and incremental policy change
Party Politics and Fiscal Discipline in a Federation
The Origins of Patronage Politics
Reconceptualizing Community Organization in India
Self-Help which Ennobles a Nation
Party Aggregation and the Number of Parties in India and the United States
We want the return for our sweat
Caste, class, and gender
Things Fall Apart
Land use planning, dispossession and contestation in Goa, India
| Highly cited | No |
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