State in India after Liberalization

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

• Introduction: The State in India After Liberalization Part 1: The Indian State as Moral and Political Economy 1. On the Enchantment of the State 2. An Institutional Perspective on the Post-liberalization State in India Part 2: Citizens, Sociality, and Association 3. States of Empowerment 4. ‘New Politics’ and the Governmentality of the Post-liberalization State in India: An Ethnographic Perspective Part 3: Liberalization, the State, and the Experience of Poverty 5. Poverty Knowledge and Poverty Action in India 6. ‘Money Itself Discriminates’: Obstetric Crises in the Time of Liberalization Part 4: Law, Identity, and Rights 7. Normative Vision, Cultural Accommodation and Muslim Law Reform in India 8. The Rule of Law and the Rule of Property: Law-Struggles and the Neo-Liberal State in India Part 5: Enterprising Citizens 9. The Terms of Trade: Competition and Cooperation in Neoliberal North India 10. Becoming Entrepreneurial Subjects: Neoliberalism and Media