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Decolonizing Development Liberatory Epistemologies from India and Latin America

94 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

94 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

94 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

This book turns to the intellectual discourses that have emerged from India and Latin America, two outposts of the Global South, on the themes of imperialism, sovereignty, development, and socio-economic, racial and caste inequalities. It recovers the elided reflective traditions of thinkers, writers and activists from these peripheries and highlights the distinctive ideas, alliances and... Read more

Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. Decolonizing Development: From Dadabhai Naoroji to Raúl Prebisch 2. Development and Social Identities: Race and Caste in Mariátegui and Ambedkar 3. Memories of Underdevelopment: Miguel Ángel Asturias’s Chronicles on India. Conclusion. Index

Biography

Rahul A. Sirohi is Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati. He is a development economist and his research currently focuses on the development experiences of Asia and Latin America. He is the author of From Developmentalism to Neoliberalism: A Comparative Analysis of Brazil and India (2019) and Reassessing the Pink Tide: Lessons from Brazil and Venezuela (2021).

Sonya Surabhi Gupta is Professor of Latin American studies at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Her research interests focus on knowledge flows in the Global South, with special reference to Latin America and India in a cross-cultural context. Her most recent publication is the edited volume, Subalternities in India and Latin America: Dalit Autobiographies and the Testimonio (2022).