The primary motivation of this paper is an inquiry into short-run efficiency, with factory level data, that can throw light on the reasons for survival of the jute industry in India. After briefly recapitulating the history of the rise of the Indian jute industry, and its stagnation in later...

Chapter 1 : Introduction -- Chapter 2: Neoliberalism and After: The Indian Experience -- Chapter 3:Post-Reform Development in Indian States: Some Issues on Regional Inequality -- Chapter 4: Agriculture in the Perspective of Economic Liberalisation in India -- Chapter 5: Agriculture and State...