Social Policy and Political Mobilization in India

Producing Hierarchical Fraternity and Polarized Differences

Bibliographic Data

ID3884710
AuthorsAjay Gudavarthy, G Vijay
Year2020
Volume51
Issue2
Pages463-484
Publication date2020-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDevelopment and Change (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/dech.12581
OpenAlexW3006814918
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited9

This article attempts to decode the ways in which social policy that has essentially developmental and welfare imperatives is being used to pursue an exclusivist-authoritarian right-wing agenda in India under Narendra Modi. The authors highlight a contradistinction between the previous United Progressive Alliance regime led by the Congress Party and the current National Democratic Alliance regime led by the BJP to show the shift in the understanding and the role of social policy. In essence, social programmes have been combined with market-oriented reforms, undoing the entitlements-based approach to social policies of the previous regime. The authors then go on to discuss a variety of social policy programmes introduced by the Modi government with a focus on public health and sanitation objectives, but also including gender empowerment imperatives, education, training and employment programmes for socially marginalized groups

Alliance · Authoritarianism · Civil society · Democracy · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social policy · Sociology · Undoing · Human Rights and Development · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Public Administration · Social and Economic Development in India

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