Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in IndiaWhy were some countries able to build "developmental states" in the decades after World War II while others were not? Through a richly detailed examination of India's experience, Locked in Place argues that the critical factor was the reaction of domestic capitalists to the state-building project. During the 1950s and 1960s, India launched an extremely ambitious and highly regarded program of state-led development. But it soon became clear that the Indian state lacked the institutional capacity to carry out rapid industrialization. Drawing on newly available archival sources, Vivek Chibber mounts a forceful challenge to conventional arguments by showing that the insufficient state capacity stemmed mainly from Indian industrialists' massive campaign, in the years after Independence, against a strong developmental state. |
Contents
INSTALLING THE STATE | 49 |
REPRODUCING THE STATE | 159 |
THE DECLINE OF DEVELOPMENT MODELS | 244 |
NOTES | 255 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 309 |
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Locked in Place: State-building and Late Industrialization in India Vivek Chibber Limited preview - 2003 |
Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India Vivek Chibber No preview available - 2006 |