ABSTRACT
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-liberal age, should be studied as the central question within the history of post-colonial democracy. The volumes offer hitherto unexplored analyses of governance — political and ideological aspects along with technological characteristics — in a historical framework.
This volume discusses:
- a contemporary history of democracy — ways of governing, resistance and their engagement
- political economy, development and neo-liberal governance
- governance as a strategy of accommodating claims and facilitating accumulation
In breaking new ground in the study of what constitutes the political subject, these volumes will be indispensable to scholars, researchers and students of politics, public administration, development studies, South Asian studies and modern India.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |167 pages
Rights and development as the site of governance
chapter |49 pages
Governing a recalcitrant minority population
chapter |39 pages
Rights, development and governance
chapter |23 pages
Claim-making in an age of bio-politics
chapter |54 pages
Governmentalization of parties
part |134 pages
Strategies of ensuring the conditions of accumulation
chapter |30 pages
Social governance and peace building
chapter |37 pages
The regime of work and accumulation
chapter |34 pages
Extraction, transit labour and governance
part |10 pages
Governance as the site of neo-liberal transformation