India Working: Essays on Society and Economy (Contemporary South Asia, Series Number 8) - Softcover

Harriss-White, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521007631 ISBN 13: 9780521007634

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Drawing on her knowledge of the country and on theoretical literature, Barbara Harris-White describes the Indian economy through its most important social structures of accumulation. The book explores a range of topics, including labor, class, the state, gender, religious plurality, caste and space. Harris-White's conclusion adeptly challenges the prevailing belief that liberalization releases the economy from political interference.

About this title

Book Description:

By drawing on her intimate knowledge of the region and on the adjacent theoretical literature, Barbara Harris-White describes the working of the Indian economy through its most important social structures of accumulation. Successive chapters explore a range of topics including labour, class, the state, gender, religious plurality, caste and space.The author's conclusion challenges the prevailing notion that liberalisation releases the economy from political interference. This is a vivid and compelling book, by a distinguished scholar, for students of economics, and for those studying the region.

About the Author:

Barbara Harriss-White is Professor of Development Studies at Queen Elizabeth House, and Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521007631
• ISBN 13: 9780521007634
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 338