A GREAT TRANSFORMATION?

Understanding India's New Political Economy

Project Papers

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I: The Political Economy of Industry, Labor and Trade
Democracy and the Current Economic Transformation
Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University, and Director of the Center for the Study of Social Sciences, Calcutta


Economic Liberalization and its Political Effects on Industry, Business and Political Parties
Aseema Sinha, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Politics of India‘s Special Economic Zones
Rob Jenkins, Professor of Politics, Birkbeck College, London

II: Social Class Dynamics

Cities and the new ‘middle’ classes
John Harriss, Professor of International Studies, Simon Fraser University

Urban class dynamics and the poor
Nandini Gooptu, University Lecturer in South Asian Studies, Oxford University

Political Economy of Agrarian Distress in India Since the 1990s
Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Assistant Professor of Economics, Queen’s College, City University of New York

III: The Political Economy of the State-Society Relations

Public finance
Rathin Roy, Public Resource Management Advisor, Bureau for. Development Policy, UNDP, New York

Shifts in India‘s Welfare Regime: Targeting, Privatisation and the ‘Great Transformation’
Jos Mooij, Senior Lecturer Public Policy and Management, Institute of Social Studies

Patterns of Wealth Distribution in India During the Period of Reforms
Arjun Jayadev, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston

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IV: Elections, Parties and the Party System

The Congress Party and the ‘Great Transformation’
James Manor, Anyaoku Chair of Commonwealth Studies, Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Hindu nationalist forces
Radhika Desai, Professor of Political Studies, University of Manitoba

The Paradoxes of the Third Force
Sanjay Ruparelia, Assistant Professor of Political Science, New School for Social Research

V: A New Federalism?

Geographies of Federalism in Post-Reform India
Stuart Corbridge, Professor of Human Geography, LSE

The Transformation of Citizenship in the 1990s
Niraja Gopal Jayal, Professor of Political Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Making Citizens from Below: The Prospects and Challenges of Decentralization in India
Patrick Heller, Associate Professor of Sociology, Brown University

VI: Political Movements, Old and New, and the Media

New social movements
Ronald Herring, Professor of Government, Cornell University

Gender politics
Raka Ray, Associate Professor of Sociology and South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley

The media
Arvind Rajagopal, Associate Professor of Culture and Communication, NYU

VII: Conceptions of India and its Place in the World

Understanding India's Foreign Policy Shift
Achin Vanaik, Professor of International Relations and Global Politics, Delhi University

India’s changing economic relations
Sanjay Reddy, Assistant Professor of Economics, Barnard College and SIPA, Columbia University


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