1st Edition
Neoliberalism and the Transforming Left in India A contradictory manifesto
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
Biography
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.
