Ebook: Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India

Why were some countries able to build ""developmental states"" in the decades after World War II while others were not? Through a richly detailed examination of India's experience, Locked in Place argues that the critical factor was the reaction of domestic capitalists to the state-building project. During the 1950s and 1960s, India launched an extremely ambitious and highly regarded program of state-led development. But it soon became clear that the Indian state lacked the institutional capacity to carry out rapid industrialization. Drawing on newly available archival sources, Vivek Chibber.;COVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; PART I: THE ISSUES AND THE ARGUMENT; CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2 LATE DEVELOPMENT AND STATE-BUILDING; PART II: INSTALLING THE STATE; CHAPTER 3 THE ORIGINS OF THE DEVELOPMENTAL STATE IN KOREA; CHAPTER 4 PRECURSORS TO PLANNING IN INDIA: THE MYTH OF THE DEVELOPMENTAL BOURGEOISIE; CHAPTER 5 THE DEMOBILIZATION OF THE LABOR MOVEMENT; CHAPTER 6 THE BUSINESS OFFENSIVE AND THE RETREAT OF THE STATE; PART III: REPRODUCING THE STATE; CHAPTER 7 STATE STRUCTURE AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY.