In the backdrop of the understanding given by Sanyal's work relating the accumulation process to the subsistence economy and these in turn to legitimization and hegemony of accumulation through regulation of primitive accumulation and governmentality, we present concrete experiences from a site...

This chapter challenges the myth of pharmaceuticals constituting a Sun Rise industry of great potential for the future of the nation. This notion has come to assign a privileged status to such production, which in turn has contributed to regulatory agencies treating manufacturers as life-savers...

The changing policy orientation from mid-1980s onwards has serious implications for the institutions and actors involved in the process of industrialisation. The labour market is no exception. This paper tries to reflect on this change by understanding the politicaleconomic dynamics of change in...

The pattern of migration to the new industrial towns suggests that unlike the conventional understanding, higher levels of education and skill which were assumed to be variables influencing upward social mobility do not hold true with trends favouring the less educated and less skilled workers...

Flexibilisation is operationalised through casualisation and contractualisation of jobs. The casualisation and contractualisation of jobs has led to informalisation of the labour market. In the context of informalisation of the labour market, the formal institutions of social security such as...

This paper is an attempt to delve into the consequences of the antinomies of flattened notions of subaltern politics on the basis of a field study in Kazipally, a pollution affected village, and to demonstrate how sustained demands for the closure of the polluting industries, based on collective...

'New industrialisation' has created severe water pollution problems in a village in Andhra Pradesh. Treating pollution simply as an externality leads to the destruction of natural resources and a skewed distribution of costs and compensation. Social vulnerability and the existence of powerful...

Rural distress, especially in Eastern India, has been in focus for various reasons. Apart from being a significant challenge for the existing development model, Eastern India has come to be marked by communal tensions, on the one hand, and radical left political movements, on the other. Analysts...

The role that social relations and institutional mechanisms are playing under conditions of extreme uneven development to cope with uncertainty intensified in the context of globalization of the economy