Class and Conflict
Revisiting Pranab Bardhan's Political Economy of India
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9780199499687
Publication date:
18/11/2019
Hardback
312 pages
216x140mm
Price: 1395.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199499687
Publication date:
18/11/2019
Hardback
312 pages
Elizabeth Chatterjee, Matthew McCartney
The book is written by leading young and established scholars, many of them very well known in the field-not least Pranab Bardhan himself,This volume provides a sweeping overview of what has changed in the second half of India's great seven-decade experiment with democracy,It tackles some of the thorniest issues in Indian politics today, including the growing influence of big business and the middle classes, competition for state resources, the sustainability of economic growth, and why India continues to be plagued by bad roads and poor electricity supply
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Elizabeth Chatterjee, Matthew McCartney
Description
In 1984, Pranab Bardhan published his classic work The Political Economy of Development in India (PEDI). It went on to become one of the most influential references on the political economy of development in the pre-reform period of independent India. Class and Conflict reflects on the enduring influence of Bardhan's original publication in the context of post-liberalization developments in India. Drawing on their own world-leading research, the contributors to this volume engage with a wide range of issues, such as whether big business dominates India today, how subsidies retard economic growth, and how the middle classes are transforming politics. Together they try to answer the big question: what has really changed in the political and economic climate of the country over the last 30 years?
Exploring the continuities and changes that have characterized India's political economy since 1984, this volume takes stock of the main challenges of India's economic development today. It contributes to current debates on economic growth, crony capitalism, agrarian crisis, the politics of class and caste, and the role of the state in a liberalizing economy.
About the author
Edited by Elizabeth Chatterjee, Lecturer in Regional and Comparative Politics, Queen Mary University of London, UK, and Edited by Matthew McCartney, Associate Professor of Political Economy and Human Development of South Asia, University of Oxford, UK
Elizabeth Chatterjee is lecturer in Regional and Comparative Politics at Queen Mary University of London. Matthew McCartney is associate professor of the department of Political Economy and Human Development of South Asia at the University of Oxford.
Elizabeth Chatterjee, Matthew McCartney
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of figures and tables
Part I. Overview
1. Elizabeth Chatterjee and Matthew McCartney, 'Revisiting The Political Economy of Development in India'
2. Pranab Bardhan, 'Reflections on Indian Political Economy'
Part II. The Indian Economy Three Decades On
3. Matthew McCartney, 'The Stagnation Debate: An Enduring Legacy'
4. Maitreesh Ghatak and Ritwika Sen, 'Growth and the Subsidy Raj in India: Re-examining the Bardhan Hypothesis'
5. James Manor, 'India's Political Economy: Has Something Crucial Recently Changed?'
Part III. The Dominant Proprietary Classes: Continuity and Change
6. Rob Jenkins, 'Business Interests and State Autonomy in India'
7. John Harriss, 'The Second Dominant Proprietary Class: Rich Farmers and the Political Economy of Indian Development'
8. Elizabeth Chatterjee, 'All Shook Up? State Professionals in the Reform Era'
Part IV. New Elites
9. Leela Fernandes, 'Rethinking the Dominant Proprietary Classes: India's Middle Classes and the Reproduction of Inequality'
10. Barbara Harriss-White, Muhammad Ali Jan, and Asha Amirali, 'Malgudi on the Move: Bardhan's Political Economy and the Rest of India'
Part V. Conclusions
11. Michael Walton, 'An Indian Gilded Age? Continuity and Change in the Political Economy of India's Development'
Index
About the editors
Elizabeth Chatterjee, Matthew McCartney
Description
In 1984, Pranab Bardhan published his classic work The Political Economy of Development in India (PEDI). It went on to become one of the most influential references on the political economy of development in the pre-reform period of independent India. Class and Conflict reflects on the enduring influence of Bardhan's original publication in the context of post-liberalization developments in India. Drawing on their own world-leading research, the contributors to this volume engage with a wide range of issues, such as whether big business dominates India today, how subsidies retard economic growth, and how the middle classes are transforming politics. Together they try to answer the big question: what has really changed in the political and economic climate of the country over the last 30 years?
Exploring the continuities and changes that have characterized India's political economy since 1984, this volume takes stock of the main challenges of India's economic development today. It contributes to current debates on economic growth, crony capitalism, agrarian crisis, the politics of class and caste, and the role of the state in a liberalizing economy.
About the author
Edited by Elizabeth Chatterjee, Lecturer in Regional and Comparative Politics, Queen Mary University of London, UK, and Edited by Matthew McCartney, Associate Professor of Political Economy and Human Development of South Asia, University of Oxford, UK
Elizabeth Chatterjee is lecturer in Regional and Comparative Politics at Queen Mary University of London. Matthew McCartney is associate professor of the department of Political Economy and Human Development of South Asia at the University of Oxford.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of figures and tables
Part I. Overview
1. Elizabeth Chatterjee and Matthew McCartney, 'Revisiting The Political Economy of Development in India'
2. Pranab Bardhan, 'Reflections on Indian Political Economy'
Part II. The Indian Economy Three Decades On
3. Matthew McCartney, 'The Stagnation Debate: An Enduring Legacy'
4. Maitreesh Ghatak and Ritwika Sen, 'Growth and the Subsidy Raj in India: Re-examining the Bardhan Hypothesis'
5. James Manor, 'India's Political Economy: Has Something Crucial Recently Changed?'
Part III. The Dominant Proprietary Classes: Continuity and Change
6. Rob Jenkins, 'Business Interests and State Autonomy in India'
7. John Harriss, 'The Second Dominant Proprietary Class: Rich Farmers and the Political Economy of Indian Development'
8. Elizabeth Chatterjee, 'All Shook Up? State Professionals in the Reform Era'
Part IV. New Elites
9. Leela Fernandes, 'Rethinking the Dominant Proprietary Classes: India's Middle Classes and the Reproduction of Inequality'
10. Barbara Harriss-White, Muhammad Ali Jan, and Asha Amirali, 'Malgudi on the Move: Bardhan's Political Economy and the Rest of India'
Part V. Conclusions
11. Michael Walton, 'An Indian Gilded Age? Continuity and Change in the Political Economy of India's Development'
Index
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