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India Working: Essays on Society and Economy (Contemporary South Asia) Book

The author describes how the Indian economy works and whether liberalisation has actually helped ordinary Indians.Read More

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  • Book Description

    By drawing on her intimate knowledge of the region and on the adjacent theoretical literature, Barbara Harris-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, class, the state, gender, religious plurality, caste and space.The author's conclusion challenges the prevailing notion that liberalisation releases the economy from political interference. This is a vivid and compelling book, by a distinguished scholar, for students of economics, and for those studying the region.

  • Product Description

    Drawing on her knowledge of the country and on theoretical literature, Barbara Harris-White describes the Indian economy through its most important social structures of accumulation. The book explores a range of topics, including labor, class, the state, gender, religious plurality, caste and space. Harris-White's conclusion adeptly challenges the prevailing belief that liberalization releases the economy from political interference.

  • 0521007631
  • 9780521007634
  • Barbara Harriss-White
  • 6 November 2002
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 336
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