The rise of statism in contemporary India: an institutional perspective

Anirban Mukherjee
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Anirban Mukherjee: University of Calcutta

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Abstract: In the recent past, India has seen a rise of a strong state which made its presence felt through a series of difficult measures such as demonetization, abolition of Triple-Talaq practice and article 370 even though none of these are particularly welfare enhancing for the majority population of India. I reckon that these measures merely act as signalling devices; signalling the emergence of a new kind of statism, different from the old, Nehruvian statism. I further argue that the promise of such statism was instrumental in the recent political success of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who won the consecutive parliamentary elections held in 2014 and 2019. In this paper, I show that historically, the state and the communities in India keep contesting over the legal framework critical for resource allocation. But the nature of their conflict got disrupted with a rise in economic inequality induced by liberalisation and that, in turn led to an increased demand for a strong state and BJP’s subsequent electoral success.

Date: 2022-11-29
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