Class, politics, and agrarian policies in post-liberalisation India / Sejuti Das Gupta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Das Gupta, Sejuti, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social classes--India.

Social classes.

Agriculture and state--India.

Agriculture and state.

India--Politics and government--1977-.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 316 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Has there been a shift in agrarian policies in India since liberalisation? What has been the impact of these policies on new class formation and consolidation of existing ones? Did proprietary classes with close relations to the state influence the formulation of these policies? Do class-state relations have to be uniform across nations under globalisation? Studying post-liberalisation India, this book answers these questions by scrutinising the tenets of agrarian policies of three states - Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, and Karnataka. In doing so, it analyses the political economy of agricultural policy and the class-state relations operating in the country. Two common arguments encountered in post-liberalisation India are that politics ought to be studied through the lens of identity, caste, language, and religion, and that under globalisation, peculiarities of the nation state have been ironed out. While arguments around these themes are seen in existing literature, the way class interest is consolidated as political settlement and the state's role in creating and maintaining classes have received limited attention. Studies on Indian politics have focused mainly on communal and caste identities, and this book adds to the understanding by arguing that class plays a critical role in agrarian politics and politics in general; class is defined as an economic and political criterion. It concludes that class and its relation to the state has come to occupy a defining role in the politics of new India and, thus, it becomes imperative to conduct this study through the lens of political economy"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction

Policy-making, class factor, and political settlement: setting the theoretical framework

Privatising the inputs of production: a case of careful choice of beneficiaries and losers

Chhattisgarh: new state, new opportunities for old class domination

Gujarat: strong state-directed capitalism across sectors

Karnataka: state patronage, market opportunism, and urban-rural closing gap

State in action, political settlement, and the agrarian flux

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Apr 2024).

ISBN:

9781009496926

1009496921

9781009481328

1009481320