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.
Table of Contents
1. IntroductionChristophe Jaffrelot, Atul Kohli and Kanta MuraliSection 1: Power of Business in Contemporary India2. Economic Liberalization and the Structural Power of Business in IndiaKanta Murali3. India's New Porous State: Blurred Boundaries and the Evolving Business-State RelationshipAseema SinhaSection 2: Business Power Across Issue Areas4. The Politics of India's Reformed Labor ModelRina Agarwala5. Business Interests, the State, and the Politics of Land Policy in IndiaRob Jenkins6. Cabal City: India's Urban Regimes and Accumulation without DevelopmentPatrick Heller, Partha Mukhopadhyay and Michael Walton7. Media in Contemporary India: Journalism Transformed into a CommodityC. Rammanohar ReddySection 3: Regional Experiences8. Business-friendly Gujarat in 2000s: The Implications of a New Political EconomyChristophe Jaffrelot9. Business and Politics: The Tamil Nadu PuzzleJohn Harriss and Andrew Wyatt10. Business and State in Odisha's Extractive EconomySunila Kale11. ConclusionChristophe Jaffrelot, Atul Kohli and Kanta Murali
