How can industrial production be managed without the guidance of the state? Adnan Naseemullah discusses industrial development in a new era of drastically constricted state capacity, from the perspective of the manufacturing firm. India's manufacturing economy has been growing after state promotion has receded. How, then, does Indian manufacturing develop in this context? Naseemullah argues that Indian firms must create production structures themselves, investing in networks of capital and labor without signals from above. Depending on manufacturers' backgrounds, these relationships are based...

Based on empirical research, this book shows how Public Interest Litigation grants the appellate courts enormous flexibility in procedure allowing them to manoeuvre themselves into positions of overweening authority. While Public Interest Litigation cases are usually politically analysed solely in terms of their effects, whether beneficial or disastrous, this book locates the political challenges that Public Interest Litigation poses in its very process, arguing that its fundamentally protean nature stems from its mimicry of ideas of popular justice. It examines Public Interest Litigation as...

Based on diverse sorts of data and fieldwork in India, this book analyses how the poor participate in a democracy.

This volume studies the reception of the works of the acclaimed post-colonial philosopher Michel Foucault by South Asian scholars.