Democracy and the State in Globalizing India: A Case Study of Odisha.

ODISHA (India); INDIA

How are the contours and practices of the state changing under the regime of economic liberalization in India? To address these questions in the context of India, in this essay I turn to the relatively understudied state of Odisha. The most common sites of research about the political economy of globalization in India are the technology clusters around Delhi, Bangalore, and Chennai, and the dynamic spaces of the burgeoning service sector. By analyzing politics in globalizing Odisha, however, we get a different sense of the messy, complicated, and sometimes contradictory politics of globalization in India, as well as how the state is adapting to these changes. The relative success of Odisha in attracting investments in mining and mining-related sectors is due both to the opening of the Indian market generally as well as efforts by the state government to promote industrial investment in these sectors. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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