Longing for an Elsewhere : Mysore and the Making of India's Developmental State.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gowda, Chandan.

Series:

Modern South Asia Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--India--Mysore--History.

Economic development.

Mysore (India)--Economic conditions.

Mysore (India).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

Longing for an Elsewhere is about the colonial ancestry of India's contemporary embrace of economic development. Unlike existing social science scholarship, which traces the emergence of the developmental state to the process of decolonization seen in the mid-twentieth century, it argues that its origins extend further back in time and are anchored in the preoccupation of local colonial elites in emulating the industrialization in Europe and the United States.

Contents:

Cover

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication page

Contents

List of Figures and Table

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations Used in Citations

About the Companion Website

1 Revisiting the Developmental State

2 The World of Mysore

3 The Colonial Roots of Development

4 Birmingham in Mysore: The Cultural Life of an Iron Plant

5 "In the Fulness of Time": Improving Villages, Modernizing Agriculture

6 An Episode in Dissent

7 Plural Futures

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-19-783661-5

0-19-783660-7

0-19-783659-3

9780197836590

OCLC:

1570330349