Political economy of contemporary India
TL;DR: In this article, the authors take a political-economy approach to capture and explain the extent of crony-capitalism in India, which has been thriving in recent times.
Abstract: The book under review takes a political-economy approach to capture and explain the extent of crony-capitalism in India, which has been thriving in recent times. The editors, both economists, have ...
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01 Jan 2017
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a method to solve the problem of urban mobility in the context of urban planning, using the concept of urban space.Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
Abstract: Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2017.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the evolution of land ownership in India does not support the claim that the primitive accumulation of capital is one of the important processes in operation in contemporary India, and the evidence suggests that the process of primitive accumulation has been arrested or significantly slowed down.
Abstract: Kalyal Sanayal’s work on postcolonial capitalism has been influential in many strands of critical social theory. In this brief note, I investigate three key components of his argument and find them wanting. In particular, I show that the evolution of land ownership in India does not support the claim that the primitive accumulation of capital is one of the important processes in operation in contemporary India. On the contrary, the evidence suggests that the process of primitive accumulation has been arrested or significantly slowed down. In addition to the critical comments on Sanyal (2007), I indicate towards an alternative framework that is better able to explain the key features of contemporary India.
4 citations
01 Jan 2019
TL;DR: The Indian state has been waging a war on adivasis, the aboriginal people who make up about eight percent of India's population, in Bastar in the state of Chhattisgarh as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The Indian state has been waging a war on adivasis, the aboriginal people who make up about eight percent of India’s population, in Bastar in the state of Chhattisgarh. Bastar is one of the mineral rich regions in the country. To tap into the mineral wealth, the transnational corporations as well as big Indian corporations have signed hundreds of Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with the government of Chhattisgarh. To execute these MoUs and extract resources, the state has been attempting to remove the adivasis from their land. But, adivasis are not alone; the Maoist revolutionaries are with them. They are resisting together the Indian state’s plans of dispossession and raising a historic slogan “Jal, jangal, jameen” (adivasi rights over water, forest, and land), izzat (self-respect) and adhikar (political power). India’s war on adivasis can only be understood by situating it in the context of neoliberal extractivism and its relationship with transnational corporations, the Indian capitalist class, and the state apparatus. Extractivism is an age-old process that the colonial power used for the expropriation and exploitation of marginalized people and their resources. Although extractive methods and dynamics have changed in the neoliberal age, what remain intact are the ruthless plunder, violence, and the enclosure of the commons. Drawing insights from Nandini Sundar’s, The Burning Forest: India’s War in Bastar (2016), this chapter critically examines the motives and methods of the Indian state’s war on adivasis, alongside the indomitable resistance of adivasi-Maoists.
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01 Jan 2021
TL;DR: Social media became inevitable and found everywhere irrespective of nature of growth, gender, age, religion, caste and class whether developed and developing or rural and urban or male and female or literate and illiterate or professional and non-professional as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Social media became inevitable and found everywhere irrespective of nature of growths, gender, age, religion, caste and class whether developed and developing or rural and urban or male and female or literate and illiterate or professional and non-professional. The human lives not only found around it rather thinking without social media is not apt in sense of not connected to the surrounding spatiality wherein lives were portrayed and represented in mundane themes including politics and economics.
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01 Jan 2020
TL;DR: In this article, the authors make a comprehensive analysis of Turkey's political economy in the twenty-first century and grasp how it has diversified in the domestic, instrumental and geographic domains.
Abstract: Turkey’s political economy in the 2000s has shown a remarkable diversification in its international political economy landscape, its domestic political economy framework, instrumental alternatives and geographic outreach, despite intensifying internal and external challenges. The overall framework of this book seeks to make a comprehensive analysis of Turkey’s political economy in the twenty-first century and to grasp how it has diversified in the domestic, instrumental and geographic domains. To this end, this introductory chapter will first rethink Turkey’s political economy with an eye to explaining Turkey’s economic growth and political transformation in line with the changes occurring in world economics from the Washington Consensus era to the current “mix” or “hybrid” era encompassing both the characteristics of post-Washington and Beijing Consensus era. In sum, the overarching aim of this book project is twofold: to scrutinize the transformation experienced in Turkey’s political economy in the 2000s and to link this transformation with the changing preferences in Turkish foreign policy.