Changing Contexts and Shifting Roles of the Indian State New Perspectives on Development Dynamics /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: D'Costa, Anthony P. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Chakraborty, Achin (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Dynamics of Asian Development,
• Subjects: Development economics.; Public finance.; Welfare economics.; Development Economics.; Public Economics.; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy.

This book critically discusses the changing relationship between the Indian state and capital by examining the mediating role of society in influencing developmental outcomes. It theorizes the state's changing context allowing the discussion of its pursuit of contradictory economic and social w...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Changing Contexts, Shifting Roles, and the Recasting of the Role of the Indian State: An Introduction (Anthony P. D'Costa)
• Part 1: Theorizing the State's Changing Role in a Changing Context
• Chapter 2. From Passive Beneficiary to 'Rights Claimant': What Difference Does It Make? (Achin Chakraborty)
• Chapter 3. Emerging Regimes of Market Citizenship: The Politics of Social Policy in Contemporary India (Priya Chacko)
• Chapter 4. An Examination of the Indian State in the Post-Planning Period (Anjan Chakrabarti)
• Part 2: Shifting Roles of the State
• Chapter 5. Including the Excluded: Inclusive Economic Growth in India after 2004 (Matthew McCartney)
• Chapter 6. Social Protection and the State in India: The Challenge of Extracting Accountability (Salim Lakha)
• Chapter 7. Compressed Capitalism and a Critical Reading of the State's Employment Challenges (Anthony P. D'Costa)
• Chapter 8. Distinctively Dysfunctional: 'State Capitalism 2.0' and the Indian Power Sector (Elizabeth Chatterjee)
• Part 3: State and Contested Forms of Governance
• Chapter 9. Re-reading the `Auto Revolution' in India with a Labour Lens: Shifting Roles and Positions of State, Industry and Workers (Babu P. Remesh)
• Chapter 10. Engaging Rural Indian Interventions: Constructing Local Governance through Resource Access and Authority (Siddharth Sareen)
• Chapter 11. Penetrative or Embracive? Exploring State, Surveillance and Democracy in India (P. Arun).