State and Ideology in India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9197983 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Selbourne (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 25 |
| Publication date | 1979-12-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Monthly Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-0520 • E-ISSN: 0027-0520 |
| Publisher | Monthly Review Foundation (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14452/mr-031-07-1979-11_3 |
| OpenAlex | W2021223823 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This is still an unfamiliar topic. Why? Because, despite the increasing attention which is being paid to the political economy of India by progressive intellectuals working in the disciplines of the social sciences, the categories of Gramsci and Althusser (to say nothing of those of Marx and Lenin) do not appear to correspond adequately to the reality of India. Part of the problem is that intellectually the term Third World is so potent, indeed hegemonic. Through over-use it has come to signify only a world of poverty, dependency, and "over-population." Simplistically suggesting a faraway terrain of cyclical coups d'etat and famines, it too often presents us, in addition, with symbolic and pictorial images of suffering which stifle analysis.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Aesthetics · Dependency (UML) · Development economics · Economics · Epistemology · Hegemony · Ideology · Nothing · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Poverty · Shock (circulatory) · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Demography · Engineering · History · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Political theory and Gramsci
| Citations per year | 0.04 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1980 - 1981 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |