Class, Politics, and Agrarian Policies in Post-liberalisation India

AvSejuti Das Gupta

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Has there been a shift in agrarian policies in India since liberalisation? What has been the impact of these policies on new class formation and consolidation of existing ones? Did proprietary classes with close relations to the state influence the formulation of these policies? Do class–state relations have to be uniform across nations under globalisation? Studying post-liberalisation India, this book answers these questions by scrutinising the tenets of agrarian policies of three Indian states – Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, and Karnataka. In doing so, it analyses the political economy of agricultural policy and the class–state relations operating in the country concluding that class and its relation to the state have come to occupy a defining role in the politics of new India. This edition has an all-new introduction and conclusion that considers the farmer movements in 2020-21 and how that impacts agrarian class structure and role of the state.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-11-21
Mått:159 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt:650 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:336
Upplaga:2
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009481335

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Sejuti Das Gupta teaches at the Department of Sociology, James Madison College, Michigan State University. She has also taught at the School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India. Her research interests are agrarian economics, agrarian policy and development, political sociology, rural studies, economic growth and liberalisation.

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'An important book that combines class analysis with subnational analysis to understand the changing nature of state-class and political economy of India in the context of ongoing globalization and economic change. In the process we are able to locate ongoing inequalities with a powerful framework and place both global and domestic change alongside agrarian crises and problems. The framework outlined in the book updates the nature of state since 2004 and how caste power also enhances class power, creating a political settlement and bargain between fractions of classes and the changing nature of the state. It is a book worth reading and digesting both for its empirical analysis of agrarian class relations across Chhattisgarh, Gujarat and Karnataka and for the notions of state-class relations, structure, and political settlement that it advances.' Aseema Sinha, Claremont McKenna College, USA

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List of tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Policy-making, class factor, and political settlement: setting the theoretical framework; 3. Privatising the inputs of production: a case of careful choice by beneficiaries and losers; 4. Chhattisgarh: new state, new opportunities for old class domination; 5. Gujarat: strong state-directed capitalism across sectors; 6. Karnataka: state patronage, market opportunism, and urban-rural closing gap; 7. State in action, political settlement, and the agrarian flux; Bibliography.