Neoliberalism and the Transforming Left in India: A Contradictory Manifesto

ISBN-13: 9780367887674 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 228 str.

Ritanjan Das

Opis

This book presents a reappraisal of the political economic history of the CPIM/Left Front regime against the backdrop of the Indian reform experience. It examines two distinct areas: the conditions that necessitated the regime to engineer a transition from an erstwhile agricultural-based growth model to a more pro-market economic agenda post-199

Spis treści

Prologue

1. The Politics Of Economic Transition: Surprises, Perspectives, and the Indian Reform Experience

2. From Bhadraloks to Party-Society: Trends in Bengali Left Politics

3. The Production and Legitimisation of Hegemony: Political Rationale of the CPIM

4. Reforming by Compulsion? Fiscal, Federal and Ideological Choices

5. The Politics of Transition: Contradictions, Negotiation and Consensus

6. Land, Consent And Violence: ‘Implosion’ of the Shadow State

7. Conclusion

O autorze

Ritanjan Das received his PhD in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and is currently working as Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His research focuses on the political economy of development, dispossession, power and cultural identity in contemporary India.