Business and Politics in India

Description

Over the last few decades, politics in India has moved steadily in a pro-business direction. This shift has important implications for both government and citizens. In Business and Politics in India, leading scholars of Indian politics have gathered to offer an analytical synthesis of this vast topic. Collectively, they cover the many strategies that businesses have used to exert their newfound power in recent times and organize the book around a few central concerns. They first analyze the nature of business power and how it shapes political change in India. Second, they look at the consequences of business' growing power on some important issue areas-labor, land, urban governance, and the media. Finally, they take account of regional variation and analyze state-business relations. This definitive account offers significant insights into how and why corporations have increased their power in contemporary Indian politics.

About the Editors
Christophe Jaffrelot is a senior research fellow at the Center for International Studies and Research (CERI) at Sciences Po/ CNRS in Paris. His core research focuses on theories of nationalism and democracy, mobilization of the lower castes and Dalits (ex-untouchables) in India, the Hindu nationalist movement, and ethnic conflicts in Pakistan. Jaffrelot is the author of nine books and has edited twenty-three volumes.
Atul Kohli is the David K.E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. His principal research interests are in the areas of comparative political economy with a focus on the developing countries. He is the author of Poverty amid Plenty in the New India (a Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2012 on Asia and the Pacific) and State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery (winner of the 2005 Charles Levine Award). He has also edited eight volumes and published some sixty articles.
Kanta Murali is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include comparative political economy of development, Indian politics, politics of growth and economic policy, state-business relations, state capacity, ethnicity, and economics development, inequality, and labor policy. Her first book, Caste, Class, and Capital: The Social and Political Origins of Economic Policy in India was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017.

Contributors:
Rina Agarwala is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University.
John Harriss is Professor in the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University.
Patrick Heller is the Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology and International Studies at Brown University.
Rob Jenkins is Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at The City University of New York.
Sunila S. Kale is Associate Professor in the The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington.
Partha Mukhopadhyay is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research.
C. Rammanohar Reddy is Readers' Editor at Scroll.in.
Aseema Sinha is the Wagener Chair of South Asian Politics and George R. Roberts Fellow in the Government Department at Claremont McKenna College.
Michael Walton is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.
Andrew Wyatt is Senior Lecturer in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol.

Table of contents

1. Introduction Christophe Jaffrelot, Atul Kohli and Kanta Murali Section 1: Power of Business in Contemporary India 2. Economic Liberalization and the Structural Power of Business in India Kanta Murali 3. India's New Porous State: Blurred Boundaries and the Evolving Business-State Relationship Aseema Sinha Section 2: Business Power Across Issue Areas 4. The Politics of India's Reformed Labor Model Rina Agarwala 5. Business Interests, the State, and the Politics of Land Policy in India Rob Jenkins 6. Cabal City: India's Urban Regimes and Accumulation without Development Patrick Heller, Partha Mukhopadhyay and Michael Walton 7. Media in Contemporary India: Journalism Transformed into a Commodity C. Rammanohar Reddy Section 3: Regional Experiences 8. Business-friendly Gujarat in 2000s: The Implications of a New Political Economy Christophe Jaffrelot 9. Business and Politics: The Tamil Nadu Puzzle John Harriss and Andrew Wyatt 10. Business and State in Odisha's Extractive Economy Sunila Kale 11. Conclusion Christophe Jaffrelot, Atul Kohli and Kanta Murali