R. Srivatsan is Senior Fellow at Anveshi Research Centre for Women's Studies, Hyderabad. This book is the oucome of research conducted as part of the development initiative at the Centre. It revisits the major strands in the development debate from the 1950s to the early 21st century. This anthology with critical introduction and rigorous prefatory remarks for each extract will be invaluable to students and researchers in the social sciences and humanities, especially development studies, history, politics and economics.

Development thought emerged as the governing principle of First World global hegemony in the new world order marked by the end of the Second World War and decolonization. Six decades later, at yet another critical geopolitical conjuncture marked by globalization and neoliberal resurgence, History of Development Thought revisits the major strands in the development debate from the 1950s to the early twenty-first century. The volume places classic international interventions in critical development thinking alongside major contributions to the discourse from the Indian context.

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