List of tables and figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction : a critical look at two decades of market reform in India / Sudipta Bhattacharyya -- Development planning and the interventionist state versus liberalization and the neoliberal state : India, 1989-1996 / Terence J. Byres...

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Reforms and electoral democracy -- pt. 3. Reforms, governance and the state. - Mostly revised version of papers presented at the Seminar on the Politics of Economic Reforms in India, held at Hyderabad in April 2002.