Changing Contexts, Shifting Roles, and the Recasting of the Role of the Indian State: An Introduction (original) (raw)

Changing Contexts and Shifting Roles of the Indian State, 2019

Abstract

The objective of this introductory chapter is to theoretically and empirically tackle four interrelated themes that examine the various facets of the contemporary Indian state. Rather than simply assessing the deviations of the Indian state from the generalized abstractions of a developmental state, this chapter shows the actual functioning of the state at multiple levels, often in a disaggregated way. These themes are to identify some of the reasons for the changing role of the state, including first, the shifting contexts such as the reconfigured state–business relationship; second, the mediating role of society in distributive politics, especially in terms of rights-based movements or pressures from below; third, the seemingly contradictory role of the state in undertaking major public social programmes and simultaneously opening up of greater spaces for the market; and fourth, the dynamic relationship between the state and the form of democratic governance under changing politic...

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