caa a22 4500 386406375 CHVBK 20180307112224.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/2058115 doi S0021911800047409 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/2058115 Gupta Akhil The Political Economy of Post-Independence India—A Review Article [Elektronische Daten] [Akhil Gupta] Economists and political scientists have become increasingly interested in the political economy of India during the past decade and particularly during the past three or four years. The titles under review will be valuable not only to India specialists but also to comparative scholars because of the intriguing mix of conditions found in India. More like a continent than a country in its diversity, India is in some ways very similar to densely populated, predominantly rural and agricultural China, differing most perhaps in the obstinacy and depth of its poverty. In the predominant role played by the state within an essentially capitalist economy, it is closer to the model of Western social democracies than it is to either prominently ideological capitalist or socialist nation-states; like other countries in the "third world,” the state in India plays a highly interventionist developmental role. Finally, since Independence it has pursued, more successfully than most nation-states in Latin America and Asia, policies of importsubstituting industrialization and relative autarchy. In terms of its political structures, India differs from most newly industrialized countries (NICs) in that it generally continues to function as a parliamentary democracy. The federal political system creates an intriguing balance of forces between central and the regional state governments, which are often ruled by opposition parties with agendas, ideologies, and organizational structures quite different from those of the central government. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 The Journal of Asian Studies Cambridge University Press 48/4(1989-11), 787-797 0021-9118 48:4<787 1989 48 JAS https://doi.org/10.2307/2058115 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/2058115 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Gupta Akhil NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Asian Studies Cambridge University Press 48/4(1989-11), 787-797 0021-9118 48:4<787 1989 48 JAS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge