Globalization and Politics in India

by Nayar, Baldev Raj

• ISBN13: 9780195689211
• ISBN10: 0195689216
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Globalization and Politics in India asks three important questions: What is the nature of the phenomenon under study? What are the causes of this pattern or phenomenon? What are its consequences? In addition, it asks what policies that would accentuate or attenuate the consequences? These questions form the overarching framework of this reader. The introduction provides a broad overview of the nature and development of economic globalization and India's experience with it. The readings offer a wide range of viewpoints and are organized into five broad sections: the nature of globalization, both in its past and contemporary incarnations; the nature of economic strategy in India that preceded globalization; the shift to economic liberalization and the stimulus for it; the consequences of globalization and liberalization for India in relation to its external setting; and the consequences of these processes for India's domestic situation.

Author Biography

Baldev Raj Nayar is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at McGill University in Canada.

Table of Contents

Globalization, geopolitics, and India : an introduction	p. 1
A guide to the readings	p. 45
Economic globalization : then and now
Winners and losers over two centuries of globalization	p. 67
Why and when did the West get rich?	p. 76
Globalization : the game, the players, and the rules	p. 90
Global inequality and human security	p. 117
The overselling of globalization	p. 133
In defence of globalization : it has a human face	p. 149
Nationalism and economic strategy
Nationalist planning for autarchy and state hegemony : development strategy under Nehru	p. 161
Globalization and economic liberalization
India in a globalizing world	p. 199
India : Dirigisme, structural adjustment, and the radical alternative	p. 218
Comment on 'India : Dirigisme, structural adjustment, and the radical alternative'	p. 241
Nationalist globalism : the narrative of strategic politics and economic openness in India	p. 245
Ideas and economic reforms in India : the role of international migration and the Indian diaspora	p. 267
The BJP, the RSS family, and globalization in India	p. 288
India and the world economy and interstate system
Globalization and India	p. 309
Strategic consequences of India's economic performance	p. 321
Globalization and India's national autonomy	p. 346
Globalization, liberalization, and domestic change
The causes and consequences of India's IT boom	p. 387
Poverty and inequality in India : a re-examination	p. 408
Regional growth and disparity in India : comparison of pre- and post-reform decades	p. 458
The changing political economy of federalism in India : a historical-institutionalist approach	p. 477
Globalization and labour	p. 516
Bibliography	p. 527
Notes on contributors	p. 562
Index	p. 564
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