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Toward a Free Economy

Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India

By: Aditya Balasubramanian

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Toward a Free Economy

Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India

By: Aditya Balasubramanian

The unknown history of economic conservatism in India after independence Neoliberalism is routinely characterized as an antidemocratic, expert-driven project aimed at insulating markets from politics, devised in the North Atlantic and projected on the rest of the world. Revising this understanding, Toward a Free Economy shows how economic conservatism emerged and was disseminated in a postcolonial society consistent with the logic of democracy. Twelve years after the British left India, a Swatantra (“Freedom”) Party came to life. It encouraged Indians to break with the Indian National Congress Party, which spearheaded the anticolonial nationalist movement and now dominated Indian democracy. Rejecting Congress’s heavy-industrial developmental state and the accompanying rhetoric of socialism, Swatantra promised “free economy” through its project of opposition politics. As it circulated across various genres, “free economy” took on meanings that varied by region and language, caste and class, and won diverse advocates. These articulations, informed by but distinct from neoliberalism, came chiefly from communities in southern and western India as they embraced new forms of entrepreneurial activity. At their core, they connoted anticommunism, unfettered private economic activity, decentralized development, and the defense of private property. Opposition politics encompassed ideas and practice. Swatantra’s leaders imagined a conservative alternative to a progressive dominant party in a two-party system. They communicated ideas and mobilized people around such issues as inflation, taxation, and property. And they made creative use of India’s institutions to bring checks and balances to the political system. Democracy’s persistence in India is uncommon among postcolonial societies. By excavating a perspective of how Indians made and understood their own democracy and economy, Aditya Balasubramanian broadens our picture of neoliberalism, democracy, and the postcolonial world.

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352

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Princeton University Press

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0691205248

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9780691205243

Border-Marxisms and Historical Materialism

Untimely Encounters

By: Aditya Nigam

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Border-Marxisms and Historical Materialism

Untimely Encounters

By: Aditya Nigam

This book engages with the diverse traditions within non-Western Marxisms, as they emerge across the Global South, positioning itself against calls for a “pure” Marxism. The author views Marxism as a conceptual “field,” similar to electromagnetic or gravitational fields, where bodies and objects impact other bodies and objects without necessarily coming in contact with them. So too, in the “field” of Marxism, people behave in specific ways and deploy languages and concepts with their own specific inflections and accents. While rejecting the view of Marxism as an inherently European and fully-formed doctrine that is corrupted by contact with alien contexts, Nigam simultaneously acknowledges the residual force of certain elements of the theory and the gravitational pull that the authoritative figures continue to have on the evolution of the field in non-Western contexts. He argues that since a large part of Marxism’s earthly journey was undertaken in the Global South, it is that experience that needs to be rendered legible, by setting aside the conceptual lens of Western Marxism that repeatedly misreads such experience. Ultimately, the book invites a fruitful and challenging re-examination of a variety of phenomena arising from the contemporaneous co-existence of pre-capitalist and capitalist social relations that have been an inextricable part of the majority of the world—what the author terms “untimely encounters.”

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278

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Springer Nature

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3031228952

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9783031228957

India Since Independence

By: Bipan Chandra,Aditya Mukherjee,Mridula Mukherjee

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India Since Independence

By: Bipan Chandra,Aditya Mukherjee,Mridula Mukherjee

This volume analyses the challenges India has faced and the successes it has achieved, in the light of its colonial legacy and century long sruggle for freedom.

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Penguin Books India

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0143104098

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9780143104094

Structural Geological Atlas

By: Soumyajit Mukherjee,Narayan Bose,Rajkumar Ghosh,Dripta Dutta,Achyuta Ayan Misra,Mohit Kumar,Swagato Dasgupta,Tuhin Biswas,Aditya Joshi,Manoj A. Limaye

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Structural Geological Atlas

By: Soumyajit Mukherjee,Narayan Bose,Rajkumar Ghosh,Dripta Dutta,Achyuta Ayan Misra,Mohit Kumar,Swagato Dasgupta,Tuhin Biswas,Aditya Joshi,Manoj A. Limaye

This book presents more than 600 eye-catching structural geological photographs and explanatory descriptions, from different Indian terrains. This book will enable easy identification of deformation features, one of the most important tasks in structural geology at the meso- and micro-scales. The book focuses on ductile and brittle shear sense indicators. This book suits for the undergraduate and graduate geoscience students. The book will be of considerable interest to tectonicians and structural geologists, given the enormous international importance of Indian terrains for exploration and other purposes.

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Springer Nature

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9811398259

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9789811398254

Shekhar Kapur's Devi

By: Shekhar Kapur,Samit Basu,Saumin Patel,Aditya Chari

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Shekhar Kapur's Devi

By: Shekhar Kapur,Samit Basu,Saumin Patel,Aditya Chari

Part human and part goddess, Devi must learn to wield her goddess powers so that she can save the world from Lord Bala's evil grip, as Lord Bala tries to obtain the Source--an ancient vessel of unimaginable power. Original.

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144

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Virgin Comics Llc

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1934413062

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9781934413067

Book's by Aditya Chari

Toward a Free Economy

Toward a Free Economy

Border-Marxisms and Historical Materialism

Border-Marxisms and Historical Materialism

India Since Independence

India Since Independence

Structural Geological Atlas

Structural Geological Atlas

Shekhar Kapur's Devi

Shekhar Kapur's Devi

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