About the Book

Conventional interpretations of the New Economic Policy introduced in India in 1991 see this program of economic liberalization as transforming the Indian economy and leading to a substantial increase in the rate of India’s economic growth. But in a country like India, growth is not enough. Who benefits from the new growth regime, and can it significantly improve the conditions of livelihood for India’s 800 million people with incomes below $2 a day? This edited volume looks at international policy regimes and their national adoption under strategic conditions of economic crisis and coercion, and within longer-term structural changes in the power calculus of global capitalism. The contributors examine long-term growth tendencies, poverty and employment rates at the national, regional and local levels in India; the main growth centers; the areas and people left out; the advantages and deficiencies of the existing policy regime, and alternative economic policies for India.

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Contents

Introduction / WAQUAR AHMED, AMITABH KUNDU, AND RICHARD PEET

1.  Neoliberalism, Inequality, and Development  /  RICHARD PEET

2.  From Mixed Economy to Neoliberalism: Class and Caste in India’s Policy Transition  /  WAQUAR AHMED

3.  Urban System in India: Trends, Economic Base, Governance, and a Perspective of Growth under Globalization  /  AMITABH KUNDU

4.  New Urbanism, Neoliberalism, and Urban Restructuring in Mumbai  /  SWAPNA BANERJEE-GUHA

5.  Economic Liberalization and Urban Governance: Impact on Inclusive Growth  /  SHIPRA MAITRA

6.  The Right to Waste: Informal Sector Recyclers and Struggles for Social Justice in Post-Reform Urban India

7.  From Red Tape to Red Carpet? Violent Narratives of Neoliberalizing Ahmedabad  /  IPSITA CHATTERJEE

8.  Neoliberalism, Environmentalism, and Urban Politics in Delhi  /  ROHIT NEGI

9.  Coping with Challenges to Food Security: Climate Change, Biofuels, and GMOs  /  SUMAN SAHAI

10. Imperialism, Resources, and Food Security, with Reference to the Indian Experience  /  UTSA PATNAIK

11. Special Economic Zones: Space, Law, and Dispossession  /  RUPAL OZA

12. Thinking Militant Particularisms Politically: Resistances to Neoliberalism in India  /  DAVID FEATHERSTONE

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About the Author / Editor

Waquar Ahmed is a visiting assistant professor at the Department of Geography, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts.

Amitabh Kundu is professor of economics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Richard Peet is professor of geography at the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts.

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