The Public Sector and the Regime of Capital in India, 1947–1975

Gupta, Chirashree Das

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“…The piecemeal process of economic liberalisation which, however "half-hearted" at first (Harriss 1987), entailed the gradual dismantling of the Nehru-Mahalanobis strategy of development that had marked the first few decades of post-Independence economic growth. The Nehru-Mahalanobis development model was rooted in the nationalist struggle for independence and aimed inter alia at creating selfsufficiency and an economy free from external and metropolitan domination (Gupta 2017). In this arrangement, much in line with how other newly independent states chose to organise their economies after World War II, the state played a decisive role to the extent that Kothari (2005, 37) has claimed that there was a consensus, from industrialists to left-of-centre politicians and radicals, on the conception of a positive and interventionist role for the state on behalf of the masses.…”

Section: Political Economy Of India's New Land Warsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Politics of Caste in India’s New Land Wars

Nielsen

Sareen

Oskarsson

2020

Journal of Contemporary Asia

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In this article we introduce the special issue through framing the debate on the role of caste in India's current land wars. We draw attention to how caste consistently mediates land transfers in present day India by pre-empting, undermining, or fuelling processes of social contestation, as well as the ways in which land claims in turn shape realigned or reimagined caste identities. Based on this, we make three main arguments. The first and most obvious one is that in contemporary conflicts over land, caste matters in evolving ways that deserve attention. Second, we argue that caste and land are recursively linked categories that are produced and reproduced in continuous interaction, even as multi-scalar political economies (re)shape them. And third, that different registers of caste are articulated by different social groups in more or less overt ways as they stake often competing claims to land.

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Section: Political Economy Of India's New Land Warsmentioning

confidence: 99%