The Politics of Negotiation How the Indian State Negotiated Divergent Interests Post Economic Liberalisation of 1991
6 Pages Posted: 25 Mar 2017
Date Written: March 23, 2017
Abstract
The nature and role of the Indian state has changed with the opening of its economy to neo-liberal economic model in the 1990s. The Indian state was originally conceived as a transformative institution for remaking its highly unequal society more egalitarian as indicated by the Indian constitution. Post economic reforms, while the state has been forced to withdraw in certain spheres of policy, it still remains the institution through which public demands are met and negotiated. The paper argues that re-imagining of Indian state post neo-liberal reforms has led to four different ways in which political demands are negotiated by the state through the politics of expropriation, accommodation, stealth and creation of new subjecthood.
Keywords: State, India, Neo-Liberal Economics, Politics
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