Negotiated Nationhood: Compromise, Contestation, and the New Fault Lines in India’s Nation-Building Project The discourse on India’s nation-building has long revolved around two competing narratives: one that celebrates the republic as an unfolding project of unity-in-diversity and progressive integration, and another that views it as a contingent, negotiated compromise shaped by historical bargains, social pluralism, … Continue reading Comment on the view that India’s nation-building process has been more of a negotiated compromise than a linear progression towards unity. Explore how globalisation and neoliberal reforms have shaped the project of nation-building and created new fault lines in India.
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How have disinvestment and privatization reshaped the trajectory, objectives, and institutional framework of economic planning in India, and what implications do these processes hold for state-market relations and developmental policy?
Disinvestment, Privatization, and the Transformation of Economic Planning in India: State-Market Relations and Developmental Policy The trajectory of Indian economic planning since independence has been deeply shaped by the dialectic between state-led developmentalism and market-oriented reforms. From the Nehruvian vision of a socialist pattern of society anchored in central planning and public sector dominance, India … Continue reading How have disinvestment and privatization reshaped the trajectory, objectives, and institutional framework of economic planning in India, and what implications do these processes hold for state-market relations and developmental policy?