Transition and development in India
- New York Routledge 2003
- x, 374p. 23 cm ; Pbk
Rs.495/-
Redrawing the Boundary of Transition and Development in India: A Prelude to an Anti-Essentialist Conceptualization of Transition and Development -- Confronting the Indian Modes of Production Debate: An Unhappy Encounter of a Third Kind -- Class and the Question of Transition: Redrawing the Contour of Marxism in India -- Transition and Development: A Marxian Critique of Subaltern Studies -- A Marxian Critique of the Passive Revolution of Capital -- A Marxian Reformulation of the Concept of Transition: An Anti-Essentialist Approach -- Class and Need: An Alternative Political Economy of Development -- The Political Economy of the New Economic Policies -- Transition and the Class Structure in the Indian Economy -- A Conclusion by Way of Opening Up "Other" Spaces.
According to Nehru, the transition from a backward agricultural society to a modern industrial society was the only way for India to progress. This text provides an account of India's move away from state intervention in the economy towards a liberalized market economy.