India working : essays on society and economy /
Barbara Harriss-White describes the working of the Indian economy through its most important social structures of accumulation. Successive chapters explore a range of topics including labour, capital, and the state. The author's conclusion challenges the notion that liberalisation releases the...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003
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| Series: | Contemporary South Asia (Cambridge, England) ;
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the character of the Indian economy
- Labour, work and its social construction in India
- Class: Indian development and the intermediate classes
- The local state and the informal economy
- Gender, family businesses and business families
- India's religious plurality and its implications for the economy
- Caste and corporatist capitalism
- Space and synergy
- How India works
- Postscript: Proto-fascist politics and the economy.
