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Development in an Era of Economic Reform in India

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type="main"> This article explores transformations of development practice after economic reforms, through an empirical account from Gujarat, western India — the country's poster-state of neoliberal reforms. It draws upon ethnographic fieldwork on the Hariyali watershed development intervention and the delivery of state-sponsored microcredit through the Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana programme in Dahod district, eastern Gujarat. This study of development practice reveals the ascendancy of market rationalities in development agencies; the rise of contracting and subcontracting by a restructured rural bureaucracy; the state's devolution of policy implementation to local political actors; and the deployment of self-governance techniques, specifically notation and inscription technologies, to create self-regulating development subjects. Springing from transformations within the state itself, these changes constitute fundamental shifts in the governance of development.

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  • Dolly Daftary, 2014. "Development in an Era of Economic Reform in India," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 45(4), pages 710-731, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:devchg:v:45:y:2014:i:4:p:710-731
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