"The handbook seeks to illuminate the key concepts in the study of development-environment through showcasing some of the Majoritarian (formerly "Developing") world's emerging scholars in order to explore theoretical connections through critical/radical theory, "small" theory, various conceptual...

This paper examines the tensions and contradictions within the Indian state in its production of socio-economic policies. Pressure of global governance institutions, multinational corporations, and neoliberal states of the global North that back such corporations, have been instrumental in the...

Neoliberal transformation is not simply a top-down process. Neoliberal hegemony at the global level has an ally in the Indian elite in producing class-biased economic growth at the national scale. Tis paper examines the social contestations around India’s economic policy regime, its...

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 --...

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...

Waquar Ahmed examines the evolution of electric-power policy in India by drawing linkages between global and local national discourses, of development. He focuses on the objectives and goals of the developmental state of India after the end of colonial occupation, and how the transition from...