1st Edition
The State in India after Liberalization Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Introduction: The State in India After Liberalization Akhil Gupta and K. Sivaramakrishnan Part 1: The Indian State as Moral and Political Economy 1. On the Enchantment of the State Sudipto Kaviraj 2. An Institutional Perspective on the Post-liberalization State in India Aseema Sinha Part 2: Citizens, Sociality, and Association 3. States of Empowerment Aradhana Sharma 4. ‘New Politics’ and the Governmentality of the Post-liberalization State in India: An Ethnographic Perspective John Harriss Part 3: Liberalization, the State, and the Experience of Poverty 5. Poverty Knowledge and Poverty Action in India Anirudh Krishna 6. ‘Money Itself Discriminates’: Obstetric Crises in the Time of Liberalization Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery Part 4: Law, Identity, and Rights 7. Normative Vision, Cultural Accommodation and Muslim Law Reform in India Narendra Subramanian 8. The Rule of Law and the Rule of Property: Law-Struggles and the Neo-Liberal State in India Nandini Sundar Part 5: Enterprising Citizens 9. The Terms of Trade: Competition and Cooperation in Neoliberal North India Kriti Kapilla 10. Becoming Entrepreneurial Subjects: Neoliberalism and Media Purnima Mankekar
Biography
Akhil Gupta is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California in Los Angeles. His research interests lie in political anthropology, cultural theory and cultural geography, postcolonial studies, development, and food and the environment.
K. Sivaramakrishnan is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. An environmental historian and political anthropologist, his research interests include colonial and contemporary forest and nature conservation in South Asia, rural and regional development, comparative social theory, and the cultural geography of migration in India.
"The contributions to this volume provide a colourful panorama of life in ‘liberalized’ India. The state is not always directly visible in these contributions, but the changed conditions of political life in the ‘new’ India are well illustrated by all those who have summed up their interesting field work in this publication." - Dietmar Rothermund, H-Soz-u-Kult, 2011
