{"product_id":"neoliberalism-and-the-transforming-left-ritanjan-das-9781138732292","title":"Neoliberalism and the Transforming Left in India: A Contradictory Manifesto","description":"\u003cp\u003eWest Bengal has often been perceived as somewhat of an aberration in the wider context of a rather chaotic Indian democracy, as the Left Front (spearheaded by the Communist Party of India-Marxist, CPIM) demonstrated a rare instance of political stability, decisively winning seven consecutive democratic elections from 1977 to 2006. Its development record has also been substantial, with a focus on land reforms, the \u003ci\u003epanchayati-raj\u003c\/i\u003e institution, and an agriculture centric development agenda. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book presents a reappraisal of the political economic history of the CPIM\/Left Front regime against the backdrop of the Indian reform experience. It examines two distinct areas: the conditions that necessitated the regime to engineer a transition from an erstwhile agricultural-based growth model to a more pro-market economic agenda post-1991, and the political strategy employed to manage such a transition, attract private capital and at the same time sustain the regime's traditional rhetoric and partisan character. In order to develop a more textured understanding of the recent political developments in West Bengal, the author applies a historically nuanced and inductive political-economic analysis, which draws on published materials, and primary material such as government documents and interviews (with bureaucrats, political activists, members of the intelligentsia and ministers).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA valuable contribution to the ongoing debate in the literature on the drifts underway with the Indian Left and India's economic transformation post-1990s, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of Political Science, Government, Political Economy and South Asian Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ritanjan Das\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 113873229X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138732292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Ritanjan Das","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48659249922303,"sku":"9781138732292","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/neoliberalism-and-the-transforming-left-ritanjan-das-9781138732292","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}