India’s Transition: A New Complex of Capitalism and Hindu Nationalism
01 Jan 2020-pp 503-530
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors unpack the rise of nationalism and Hindutva in the post-globalization period and conclude upon the possibility of a complex unity of capitalist minority might and Hindu majority might, albeit with contradictions and conflicts.
Abstract: Globalization has unleashed two concomitant forces in India since 1991: neoliberalism and private capitalism. Neoliberal globalization enabled India’s economic transition from state capitalism under a centralized plan regime (1951–1991) toward private capitalism that took the form of global capitalism (1991–). In the post-globalization era, while Indian capitalism has been successful in terms of outcomes of high growth and extreme income poverty reduction, its form of global capitalism represented by circuits-camp of global capital is shown as constituted by the structural exclusion of world of the third. This economic map is revealed to have sown new seeds of contradictions that manifested in new-fangled problems of income and social inequalities, misdirection in sectoral change, low quality of job creation, and agrarian crisis. Finally, we unpack the rise of nationalism and Hindutva in the post-globalization period and conclude by reflecting upon the possibility of a complex unity of capitalist minority might and Hindu majority might, albeit with contradictions and conflicts.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe India's economic transition as epochal, materializing out of the new emergent triad of neo-liberal globalization, global capitalism and inclusive development.
Abstract: Taking the period following the advent of liberalization, this book explains the transition of the Indian economy against the backdrop of development. If the objective is to explore the new economic map of India, then the distinct contributions in the book could be seen as twofold. The first is the analytical frame whereby the authors deploy a unique Marxist approach consisting of the initial concepts of class process and the developing countries to address India's economic transition. The second contribution is substantive whereby the authors describe India's economic transition as epochal, materializing out of the new emergent triad of neo-liberal globalization, global capitalism and inclusive development. This is how the book theorizes the structural transformation of the Indian economy in the twenty-first century. Through this framework, it interrogates and critiques the given debates, ideas and policies about the economic development of a developing nation.
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TL;DR: In this article , a basic introduction to a bare minimum corpus of concepts associated with class-focused Marxian theory is provided, and a discussion moves on to capitalist class enterprise and to class struggle.
Abstract: Our particular rendition of world of the third Marxism cannot be founded without the return of a class-focused discourse—class understood in terms of processes of surplus labour. Beginning with the entry point of class as processes of surplus labour and the epistemo-ontology of overdetermination, this chapter provides a basic introduction to a bare minimum corpus of concepts associated with class-focused Marxian theory. Its object of analysis is then focused upon the manner in which various non-class processes constitute and are constituted by class processes. Using a class matrix, various types of class process of performance and appropriation of surplus labour—independent, slave, feudal, capitalist, communist, and communitic—are elaborated upon. The class-focused conceptualization of reality is presented as decentred and disaggregated. The focus then shifts to the capitalist class process which is explored in detail. Finally, the discussion moves on to capitalist class enterprise and to class struggle.
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TL;DR: A review of Indian planning in the light of development theory and the debates on planning carried out in other countries is provided in this article, which deals with the experience of development planning as practised in India over the last thirty-five years.
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TL;DR: The authors explored the causes of India's productivity surge around 1980, more than a decade before serious economic reforms were initiated, and found evidence that the trigger may have been an attitudinal shift by the government in the early 1980s that unlike the reforms of the 1990s, was probusiness rather than promarket in character, favoring the interests of existing businesses rather than new entrants or consumers.
Abstract: This paper explores the causes of India's productivity surge around 1980, more than a decade before serious economic reforms were initiated. Trade liberalization, expansionary demand, a favorable external environment, and improved agricultural performance did not play a role. We find evidence that the trigger may have been an attitudinal shift by the government in the early 1980s that unlike the reforms of the 1990s, was probusiness rather than promarket in character, favoring the interests of existing businesses rather than new entrants or consumers. A relatively small shift elicited a large productivity response, because India was far away from its income-possibility frontier. Registered manufacturing, which had been built up in previous decades, played an important role in determining which states took advantage of the changed environment.
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