1st Edition

Neo-Liberal Strategies of Governing India

By Ranabir Samaddar Copyright 2016
    352 Pages
    by Routledge India

    352 Pages
    by Routledge India

    Neo-liberal Strategies of Governing India and its companion volume Ideas and Frameworks of Governing India tell the story of governance in independent India and address the critical question: how is a post-colonial democracy governed? Further, they attempt to understand why the process of governing a post-colonial democracy, particularly in the neo

    Part I. Rights and Development as the Site of Governance 1. Governing a Recalcitrant Minority Population 2. Rights, Development, and Governance 3. Claim Making in an Age of Bio-Politics 4. Governmentalisation of Parties Part II. Strategies of Ensuring the Conditions of Accumulation 5. Social Governance and Peacebuilding 6. The Regime of Work and Accumulation 7. Extraction, Transit Labour, and Governance 8. Logistical Governance: Walls, Zones and Corridors Part III. Governance as the Site of Neo-liberal Transformation 9. Crisis, Neo-liberal Governance, and Passive Revolution. Bibliography. Index