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SUMMARY:GDI Webinar: Class\, Politics\, and Agrarian Policies in Post-Lib
 eralisation India
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sejuti Das Gupta (Michigan State University)\n\nIndi
 a entered a new political and economic phase in 1991 with adoption of th
 e structural adjustment programme. Since then\, studies have tended to f
 ocus on global and national factors to understand ongoing political proc
 esses in the country. With cultural nationalism and symbolic politics ho
 lding the media attention\, the significant transformation of India’s po
 litical economy and the changing political settlement have been under-re
 searched despite their contribution to victory of Bharatiya Janata Party
  (BJP) in the 2014 elections. \n\nIn Class\, Politics\,  and Agrarian Po
 licies in Post-Liberalisation India\, Sejuti Das Gupta argues that the p
 eriod after liberalisation cannot be regarded as a continuous period as 
 far as India’s political economy is concerned. In fact\, an assessment o
 f the political settlement operating in states of Chhattisgarh\, Gujarat
  and Karnataka brings back the role of subnational actors\, particularly
  classes\, in shaping policies. Hence\, a new phase begins from here whi
 ch contributes to the victory of BJP in 2014. A peculiar combination of 
 dominant class and state relations emerges in these three states\, which
  play a decisive role in how agrarian policies and politics have advance
 d since. This lecture will explain the arguments and academic reference 
 points for the book in detail\, which  challenges the notion that all fa
 rmers in India are in agrarian distress and shows that some classes of f
 armers have gained. It helps understand why the farmer movement has weak
 ened and control of industrial capitalist class has been bolstered. The 
 book discusses the growing presence of petty bourgeoisie with both old a
 nd new fractions thriving.\n\nSejuti Das Gupta is an associate professor
  in the Comparative Cultures and Politics field. She completed her docto
 ral studies at SOAS\, recieving the Felix Scholarship to conduct her res
 earch in Development Studies. Her areas of interest are capitalism\, col
 onialism\, agrarian political economy\, public policy\, class-caste and 
 state-society interactions. \n\nSejuti’s core interest is in combining t
 heory and practice for a better understanding of social science. Followi
 ng her Ph.D.\, she joined the Tata Institute of Social Sciences\, India\
 , where she served as the academic coordinator for Master’s in Developme
 nt Practice under the Prime Minister's Rural Development Fellows' Scheme
 . She has worked at the grassroots in India on issues of mining\, land a
 cquisition and displacement. Her current research focus is the impact of
  COVID on women and their work in Lansing. She was recently awarded a Re
 gional Economic Initiative grant to conduct research on the pandemic’s e
 ffect on women’s work in Michigan on a formal-informal continuum.\n\nReg
 ister for the webinar here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/xI_2hC2gRVu
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