Transition and Development in India

According to Nehru, the transition from a backward agricultural society to a modern industrialized society was the only road for India to progress. So, for the past few decades, India has focused its transitional development around movement away from a state-controlled economy toward that of a free market economy. Transition and Development in India challenges the current basis of this theory of development, laying the groundwork for an entirely new Marxist approach to transition that should apply not just to India, but to all developing nations.

Stephen Cullenburg is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Riverside and a former editor of Rethinking Marxism. Anjan Chakrabarti is Professor of Economics at the University of Calcutta.

1. Redrawing the Boundary of Transition and Development in India: A Prelude to an Anti-Essentialist Conceptualization of Transition and Development 2. Confronting the Indian Modes of Production Debate: An Unhappy Encounter of a Third Kind 3. Class and the Question of Transition: Redrawing the Contour of Marxism in India 4. Transition and Development: A Marxian Critique of the Subaltern Studies 5. A Marxian Critique of the Passive Revolution of Capital 6. A Marxian Reformulation of the Concept of Transition: An Anti-Essentialist Approach 7. Class and Need: Towards a Postmodern Development Economics 8. The Political Economy of the New Economic Policy 9. Transition and the Class Structure in the Indian Economy 10. A Conclusion by the Way of Opening Up 'Other' Spaces Appendix of Tables