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Developmentalism as Strategy: Interrogating Post-colonial Narratives on India's North East critically examines the post-colonial developmental trajectory of the Indian State at its northeastern periphery. Due to its unique historical geography, India's North East has been systematically marginalized and was imagined as “underdeveloped”. The dominant narrative of India's economic nationalism has largely acted as a strategy within the North East in the context of resource appropriation and national security, and producing new arrangements of knowledge, power and practices. Adopting a methodological approach of interdisciplinarity, this book attempts to understand the exceptions to India's dominant development policy as applied in the North East. In the changing dynamics of political economy of development in the region, the book further examines the subsequent transformation of the narrative of the North East from a “geographic marginality” to a “natural gateway”, and explores the alternative to such mainstream development approach by raising debates in India's North East.
International Financial Institutions in India's North East: Pattern and Impact on People and Environment
International Financial Institutions in India's North East: Pattern and Impact on People and Environment
The increased financing of various international financial institutions (IFIs) and development financial institutions in the recent past, such as the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), German Development Bank (DEG)/KfW of Germany in shaping the development discourse, have become a dominant feature across India's northeastern states. This discourse has intensified ever since India adopted a neoliberal development model and lately the aggressive pursuance of its Act East Policy, erstwhile christened the Look East Policy, to consolidate and expand its economic and political influence with Southeast Asian ...
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