01482nam a22001457a 4500020001800000082001800018245004500036260004600081300001400127504001800141520105500159650009001214700001601304700001601320  a9781107164956  a330.954bPOL-  aPolitical Economy Of Contemporary India   aDelhi bCambridge University Press c2017  axii,371p.  aInclude Index  aThe need to understand regional variation in politics and political economy, and how these have contributed to different developmental outcomes across various parts of India, remains pressing. It was suggested in the early 1960s that in India the central government was largely under the control of a national capitalist class, while the states were dominated by landed interests. Does such a formulation hold ground today? With increasing political mobilization among lower classes and castes and the diffusion of economic power to the state level after the reforms, how can variation in regional development be characterized? This volume aims to answer these questions by studying aspects of macro-economy, land, labour and employment from a variety of analytical and disciplinary perspectives. It offers rich analyses of economic growth viewed through the lenses of caste, regional politics and public investment, while also looking at long-term trends in employment and wages in the public sector, and the consequences of legal and policy reform.  aPolitics and governmentvEconomic developmentvEconomic policyvSocial classeszIndia  aNagaraj, R.  aMotiram, S.