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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.
Introduction
Introduction
State and Development
Classical political economy laid down the premises for ‘progressive modernity’ and the emergence of developmentalist ideology. The fundamental was to create a new idea that is ‘necessarily good and desirable in an era of progress’ (Wallerstein 1992a, 1992b). This can be traced back to the eighteenth-century Enlightenment era with its assertion of the need for conscious rational reform of a society with sovereignty, where even the nation-state was reckoned to be ‘free to direct and control developmentalist ideology’. The centrality of such liberalism and notion of progress of a nation became the ‘ideological universe of capitalism’ which acted upon wealth accumulation and circulation (Grosfoguel 2000, 347–74). While studying its consequence with historical data since 1820, the economic ...
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