Global policy organizations, financial institutions, and national governments have emphasized hig... more Global policy organizations, financial institutions, and national governments have emphasized high-value agriculture in the world’s semi-arid areas inhabited by the greatest proportion of its poor, stressing linking households to markets to improve their well-being. This is assumed to involve state withdrawal and the ascendance of self-evident market forces. By means of ethnographic fieldwork in semi-arid western India, this paper discusses how the market does not arise spontaneously, but is deepened through state intensification. Rural households are imbricated with new markets by the state’s rendering of development policy market-driven, and through democratic decentralization, which has emerged as an instrument to facilitate the penetration of market actors into remote rural communities.
This piece in The Hindu draws parallels between One Nation One Election and Prime Minister Narend... more This piece in The Hindu draws parallels between One Nation One Election and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's earlier attempts to subvert electoral democracy in Gujarat through 'samras' or 'consensus' panchayats. An excerpt: “The One Nation One Election catchphrase harks back to a moniker from Mr. Modi’s rule in Gujarat, where he introduced the idea of samras village panchayats — sarpanches selected ‘unanimously’ or by ‘consensus’. First floated in 2002, the idea was repeated in 2006. Sarpanches command significant resources, wield power, and deliver development largely through clientelism, echoing the workings of elected leaders at the highest level. Elections give voters the same chance to oust a sarpanch who has skewed the distribution of development, as to expel a ruling party at the State or Centre. Samras gave incumbents an advantage in being reappointed as sarpanch (they were already panchayat leaders, had financial and tactical resources, and were networked with government officials and party actors). ....Perhaps Mr. Modi feared that new sarpanches would be more equivocal about supporting the party in 2007. Perhaps the act of ousting a panchayat incumbent would make people feel more adventurous about ousting the State’s incumbent. The germs of many of Mr. Modi’s ideas lie in Gujarat, and their finessed forms have been deployed on a national scale since he emerged as the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate in 2014. The ONOE is the next point in the Prime Minister’s attempt to quash the opposition that a democratic exercise may throw up."
Departing from scholarship related to democratic decentralization which has largely treated the p... more Departing from scholarship related to democratic decentralization which has largely treated the phenomenon through the lenses of comparative politics, public choice and participatory governance; I identify democratic decentralization as a form of state restructuring of rural spaces during an era of market expansion. Drawing upon political geography and critical governance studies and based on multi-site ethnographic fieldwork in India, elected local bodies are identified as mediators of market-society conflicts, builders of infrastructure to overcome spatio-temporal barriers to the movement of capital, and legitimators of new property regimes at the geopolitical margins. Market expansion by means of democratic decentralization is a window onto the transformation of statehood during second wave economic reforms in India, and unsettles the premise of grassroots democratization advancing distributional justice in the locality.
A study on market-driven agriculture in the dry lands in Gujarat, especially households which emb... more A study on market-driven agriculture in the dry lands in Gujarat, especially households which embarked on dairying through the acquisition of loan-buffaloes, reveals that dairying is shot through with the politics of economic value involving dairies and milk producers. Commercial milk-production is interrupted by economic value encountering other values and affective relations of milk producers. The paper identifies limits to capitalist expansion located in people’s affective capacities and lifeworlds that emphasise becomings other than as “market producers,” in the state regarded as the most “entrepreneurial” in the country.
The Sangh parivar's project of 'Hindu unity' is crumbling in Gujarat. The state’s ‘frontier’ dis... more The Sangh parivar's project of 'Hindu unity' is crumbling in Gujarat. The state’s ‘frontier’ districts at its remote margins may be the vanguards of change.
Ethnography in Gujarat, India's poster-state of market reforms, recovers what transpires when the... more Ethnography in Gujarat, India's poster-state of market reforms, recovers what transpires when the individual embraces capital for market-driven production. This article reports on resource-poor rural households who embark on dairying through buffaloes acquired with microcredit. The essay discusses the politics of economic value pertaining to gender, labor and natural resources; and economic value encountering other values, lifeworlds and affective relations related to work, humans and non-human others. These phenomena interrupt commodity production. Human-animal relations challenge both capitalism's treatment of bovines as machines, and the bovine politics of Hindu nationalism rooted in ignorance of rural economy, lifeworlds and livelihoods.
Background and purpose: The problem of elite capture' stymies poverty alleviation interventio... more Background and purpose: The problem of elite capture' stymies poverty alleviation interventions in international social work - persistent poverty among the poor due to community elites capturing development benefits. Though studies suggest that elite capture is prevented when elected community bodies implement development interventions, most of the evidence is based on case studies, is anecdotal or does not establish causal effects. To remedy this gap, I use a structural equation modeling research design to examine the effect of a) wealth and b) civic capital on elected bodies' distributional decisions in watershed development, a program delivering seeds, fertilizers, micro credit and wage employment to rural households in India. Method: The study was undertaken in Mahipura village in western India. Households were administered surveys measuring wealth, civic capital and watershed development benefits (N=122). The structural equation model consisted of three latent variables...
Although community development by elected local bodies is considered to promote pro-poor developm... more Although community development by elected local bodies is considered to promote pro-poor development, there is little systematic evidence on what forces shape elected leaders' distributional decisions and how communities influence their leaders' choices. This paper presents findings from a mixed-method study examining elected leaders' decision making on development in one community, investigating whether wealth or kinship-based representation to the elected body exerted a stronger effect on leaders. Findings suggest that electoral institutions based on kinship exercised a significant effect on leaders while wealth did not, suggesting that electoral politics may mitigate elite capture because it institutionalizes representational decision making.
When youth are involved in their communities, they typically do so through institutional structur... more When youth are involved in their communities, they typically do so through institutional structures. We construe youth service as a type of long-term, intensive volunteerism or civic service, which takes a range of institutional forms including service-learning, national service, and international service. We define these forms as having common operational features, and summarize what is known about them and their
This study aims to increase understanding about the challenges and opportunities for graduate sch... more This study aims to increase understanding about the challenges and opportunities for graduate schools of social work to meet the educational needs of midlife and older adults. Interviews were conducted with alumni who received their MSWs when they were age 40 or older. The Alumni Office provided 170 alumni's contact information; 61 (36%) alumni were reached and 60 (98%) agreed to participate. Most (62%) switched from the for-profit sector into the nonprofit sector after their MSW, whereas others (38%) advanced within the human and social service occupations. Volunteering and caregiving were pathways to the MSW. Graduate schools could reshape recruitment and programming to facilitate an increasing number of older students.
... Dolly Daftary and Amanda Moore McBride, Ph.D. ... Program examples include the Peace Corps, U... more ... Dolly Daftary and Amanda Moore McBride, Ph.D. ... Program examples include the Peace Corps, United Nations Volunteers, Japanese Overseas Cooperation Volunteers, the European Voluntary Service and Volunteer Service Organization. ...
This article discusses the transformation of development practice following market reforms in
dev... more This article discusses the transformation of development practice following market reforms in developing countries through a study in Gujarat, western India. It draws upon ethnographic fieldwork on market-driven development in India’s flagship state of neo-liberal reforms, and the delivery of state-sponsored microcredit through the intervention. The rise of profit-maximizing priorities in government-owned rural banks, the state’s deployment of contracting and subcontracting to implement development policy, and the devolution of implementation to elected local bodies are discussed. This led to the responsibility for local development being tacitly shifted to an ungoverned space in the locality. These practices reveal marketization, decentralization and informalization to be crucial features of the post-liberalization state. (Pre-print version of article published in the European Journal of Development Research. The publisher-authenticated version: Daftary, D. (2015). "Development in Post-liberalization India: Marketization, Decentralization and Informalization in Gujarat." European Journal of Development Research.10.1057/ejdr.2015.42" is available at: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ejdr/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/ejdr201542a.html )
Global policy organizations have emphasized cash-crop production for poverty alleviation in the w... more Global policy organizations have emphasized cash-crop production for poverty alleviation in the world's semi-arid areas in recent years. In this vein, watershed development, the Indian state's largest development intervention for semi-arid communities, initiated in the 1980s, now emphasizes entrepreneurial agriculture and cash-crop production in places once considered ecologically fragile. Through an empirical account of the politics of categories, representations, and technology; specifically emphasis on the landowning farmer, private land, and capital-intensive structures; I discuss how new notions of person, property, and techniques of improvement are enacted in communities in rainfed areas. I suggest that watershed development's distributional consequences in contexts of chronic poverty can best be understood when the intervention is seen in conjunction with policies that purportedly enhance social justice. Together, the interventions enable the state to balance extraction with legitimization. The findings force the reconsideration of entrepreneurial community development strategies in vogue across the world, and call for critically examining their underlying values.
This article explores transformations of development practice after economic reforms, through an ... more This article explores transformations of development practice after economic reforms, through an empirical account from Gujarat, western India — the country's poster-state of neoliberal reforms. It draws upon ethnographic fieldwork on the Hariyali watershed development intervention and the delivery of state-sponsored microcredit through the Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana programme in Dahod district, eastern Gujarat. This study of development practice reveals the ascendancy of market rationalities in development agencies; the rise of contracting and subcontracting by a restructured rural bureaucracy; the state's devolution of policy implementation to local political actors; and the deployment of self-governance techniques, specifically notation and inscription technologies, to create self-regulating development subjects. Springing from transformations within the state itself, these changes constitute fundamental shifts in the governance of development.
The impact of neoliberalism—an ideology that emphasizes private property and financial value-gene... more The impact of neoliberalism—an ideology that emphasizes private property and financial value-generation—has been little studied on development policy in India's drylands, which are inhabited by the greatest proportion of the country's poor. With global policy organisations and national governments emphasising market-oriented development in semi-arid areas, watershed development, the Indian state's largest development intervention for the drylands, now emphasises improving private land, intensifying input use and expanding irrigation in regions once considered ecologically fragile. Through an empirical account of the politics of categories, representations and technology, I discuss how neoliberal ideas of person, property and techniques of improvement are enacted in rainfed areas; and the implications for citizenship, equity and inclusion.
While membership in civic associations is regarded as an instrument of political engagement, lite... more While membership in civic associations is regarded as an instrument of political engagement, literature has largely ignored the diversity of associations. In an empirical investigation of Brazil and India, we find that membership in social and political associations affects political engagement differently, and in addition, political interest influences political engagement.
This dissertation investigates the interaction of market-based development policy with democratic... more This dissertation investigates the interaction of market-based development policy with democratic decentralization in ecological frontiers in western India inhabited by the vast majority of the country's poor. The study explores how the leaders of elected local bodies called panchayats who are driven by the imperatives of broad-based distribution deliver upwardly distributive capital-intensive development in resource-poor communities during a period of state-neoliberalization. On the basis of eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in eastern Gujarat, the study explores how the implication of panchayats-the world's largest system of democratic politicsin large-scale politics shapes the distribution of material resources in resource-dependent communities. In the context of the state's devolution of governance to non-state actors, the project investigates the role of political society actors including panchayat leaders, vote-brokers and political competitors in shaping the distribution and governance of market-led development and its impact on well-being. In doing so, the dissertation uses a mixed-method design combining a range of qualitative and quantitative techniques including archival research, household surveys, in-depth interviews, political ethnography, multi-site participant observation, and national, state and district-level data.
Although democratic decentralisation or community development by elected leaders is hypothesised ... more Although democratic decentralisation or community development by elected leaders is hypothesised to broaden development, there is little evidence on just how elected leaders make distributional decisions and far less on how communities in turn shape their leaders' decisions. This study combines structural equation modelling with ethnography in India to investigate how leaders of elected local bodies called panchayats distribute development. While quantitative findings reveal that democratic decentralisation mitigates elite capture, ethnography gives insight into the role of political brokers in brokering development for votes, widening distribution to non elite groups.
Global policy organizations, financial institutions, and national governments have emphasized hig... more Global policy organizations, financial institutions, and national governments have emphasized high-value agriculture in the world’s semi-arid areas inhabited by the greatest proportion of its poor, stressing linking households to markets to improve their well-being. This is assumed to involve state withdrawal and the ascendance of self-evident market forces. By means of ethnographic fieldwork in semi-arid western India, this paper discusses how the market does not arise spontaneously, but is deepened through state intensification. Rural households are imbricated with new markets by the state’s rendering of development policy market-driven, and through democratic decentralization, which has emerged as an instrument to facilitate the penetration of market actors into remote rural communities.
This piece in The Hindu draws parallels between One Nation One Election and Prime Minister Narend... more This piece in The Hindu draws parallels between One Nation One Election and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's earlier attempts to subvert electoral democracy in Gujarat through 'samras' or 'consensus' panchayats. An excerpt: “The One Nation One Election catchphrase harks back to a moniker from Mr. Modi’s rule in Gujarat, where he introduced the idea of samras village panchayats — sarpanches selected ‘unanimously’ or by ‘consensus’. First floated in 2002, the idea was repeated in 2006. Sarpanches command significant resources, wield power, and deliver development largely through clientelism, echoing the workings of elected leaders at the highest level. Elections give voters the same chance to oust a sarpanch who has skewed the distribution of development, as to expel a ruling party at the State or Centre. Samras gave incumbents an advantage in being reappointed as sarpanch (they were already panchayat leaders, had financial and tactical resources, and were networked with government officials and party actors). ....Perhaps Mr. Modi feared that new sarpanches would be more equivocal about supporting the party in 2007. Perhaps the act of ousting a panchayat incumbent would make people feel more adventurous about ousting the State’s incumbent. The germs of many of Mr. Modi’s ideas lie in Gujarat, and their finessed forms have been deployed on a national scale since he emerged as the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate in 2014. The ONOE is the next point in the Prime Minister’s attempt to quash the opposition that a democratic exercise may throw up."
Departing from scholarship related to democratic decentralization which has largely treated the p... more Departing from scholarship related to democratic decentralization which has largely treated the phenomenon through the lenses of comparative politics, public choice and participatory governance; I identify democratic decentralization as a form of state restructuring of rural spaces during an era of market expansion. Drawing upon political geography and critical governance studies and based on multi-site ethnographic fieldwork in India, elected local bodies are identified as mediators of market-society conflicts, builders of infrastructure to overcome spatio-temporal barriers to the movement of capital, and legitimators of new property regimes at the geopolitical margins. Market expansion by means of democratic decentralization is a window onto the transformation of statehood during second wave economic reforms in India, and unsettles the premise of grassroots democratization advancing distributional justice in the locality.
A study on market-driven agriculture in the dry lands in Gujarat, especially households which emb... more A study on market-driven agriculture in the dry lands in Gujarat, especially households which embarked on dairying through the acquisition of loan-buffaloes, reveals that dairying is shot through with the politics of economic value involving dairies and milk producers. Commercial milk-production is interrupted by economic value encountering other values and affective relations of milk producers. The paper identifies limits to capitalist expansion located in people’s affective capacities and lifeworlds that emphasise becomings other than as “market producers,” in the state regarded as the most “entrepreneurial” in the country.
The Sangh parivar's project of 'Hindu unity' is crumbling in Gujarat. The state’s ‘frontier’ dis... more The Sangh parivar's project of 'Hindu unity' is crumbling in Gujarat. The state’s ‘frontier’ districts at its remote margins may be the vanguards of change.
Ethnography in Gujarat, India's poster-state of market reforms, recovers what transpires when the... more Ethnography in Gujarat, India's poster-state of market reforms, recovers what transpires when the individual embraces capital for market-driven production. This article reports on resource-poor rural households who embark on dairying through buffaloes acquired with microcredit. The essay discusses the politics of economic value pertaining to gender, labor and natural resources; and economic value encountering other values, lifeworlds and affective relations related to work, humans and non-human others. These phenomena interrupt commodity production. Human-animal relations challenge both capitalism's treatment of bovines as machines, and the bovine politics of Hindu nationalism rooted in ignorance of rural economy, lifeworlds and livelihoods.
Background and purpose: The problem of elite capture' stymies poverty alleviation interventio... more Background and purpose: The problem of elite capture' stymies poverty alleviation interventions in international social work - persistent poverty among the poor due to community elites capturing development benefits. Though studies suggest that elite capture is prevented when elected community bodies implement development interventions, most of the evidence is based on case studies, is anecdotal or does not establish causal effects. To remedy this gap, I use a structural equation modeling research design to examine the effect of a) wealth and b) civic capital on elected bodies' distributional decisions in watershed development, a program delivering seeds, fertilizers, micro credit and wage employment to rural households in India. Method: The study was undertaken in Mahipura village in western India. Households were administered surveys measuring wealth, civic capital and watershed development benefits (N=122). The structural equation model consisted of three latent variables...
Although community development by elected local bodies is considered to promote pro-poor developm... more Although community development by elected local bodies is considered to promote pro-poor development, there is little systematic evidence on what forces shape elected leaders' distributional decisions and how communities influence their leaders' choices. This paper presents findings from a mixed-method study examining elected leaders' decision making on development in one community, investigating whether wealth or kinship-based representation to the elected body exerted a stronger effect on leaders. Findings suggest that electoral institutions based on kinship exercised a significant effect on leaders while wealth did not, suggesting that electoral politics may mitigate elite capture because it institutionalizes representational decision making.
When youth are involved in their communities, they typically do so through institutional structur... more When youth are involved in their communities, they typically do so through institutional structures. We construe youth service as a type of long-term, intensive volunteerism or civic service, which takes a range of institutional forms including service-learning, national service, and international service. We define these forms as having common operational features, and summarize what is known about them and their
This study aims to increase understanding about the challenges and opportunities for graduate sch... more This study aims to increase understanding about the challenges and opportunities for graduate schools of social work to meet the educational needs of midlife and older adults. Interviews were conducted with alumni who received their MSWs when they were age 40 or older. The Alumni Office provided 170 alumni's contact information; 61 (36%) alumni were reached and 60 (98%) agreed to participate. Most (62%) switched from the for-profit sector into the nonprofit sector after their MSW, whereas others (38%) advanced within the human and social service occupations. Volunteering and caregiving were pathways to the MSW. Graduate schools could reshape recruitment and programming to facilitate an increasing number of older students.
... Dolly Daftary and Amanda Moore McBride, Ph.D. ... Program examples include the Peace Corps, U... more ... Dolly Daftary and Amanda Moore McBride, Ph.D. ... Program examples include the Peace Corps, United Nations Volunteers, Japanese Overseas Cooperation Volunteers, the European Voluntary Service and Volunteer Service Organization. ...
This article discusses the transformation of development practice following market reforms in
dev... more This article discusses the transformation of development practice following market reforms in developing countries through a study in Gujarat, western India. It draws upon ethnographic fieldwork on market-driven development in India’s flagship state of neo-liberal reforms, and the delivery of state-sponsored microcredit through the intervention. The rise of profit-maximizing priorities in government-owned rural banks, the state’s deployment of contracting and subcontracting to implement development policy, and the devolution of implementation to elected local bodies are discussed. This led to the responsibility for local development being tacitly shifted to an ungoverned space in the locality. These practices reveal marketization, decentralization and informalization to be crucial features of the post-liberalization state. (Pre-print version of article published in the European Journal of Development Research. The publisher-authenticated version: Daftary, D. (2015). "Development in Post-liberalization India: Marketization, Decentralization and Informalization in Gujarat." European Journal of Development Research.10.1057/ejdr.2015.42" is available at: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ejdr/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/ejdr201542a.html )
Global policy organizations have emphasized cash-crop production for poverty alleviation in the w... more Global policy organizations have emphasized cash-crop production for poverty alleviation in the world's semi-arid areas in recent years. In this vein, watershed development, the Indian state's largest development intervention for semi-arid communities, initiated in the 1980s, now emphasizes entrepreneurial agriculture and cash-crop production in places once considered ecologically fragile. Through an empirical account of the politics of categories, representations, and technology; specifically emphasis on the landowning farmer, private land, and capital-intensive structures; I discuss how new notions of person, property, and techniques of improvement are enacted in communities in rainfed areas. I suggest that watershed development's distributional consequences in contexts of chronic poverty can best be understood when the intervention is seen in conjunction with policies that purportedly enhance social justice. Together, the interventions enable the state to balance extraction with legitimization. The findings force the reconsideration of entrepreneurial community development strategies in vogue across the world, and call for critically examining their underlying values.
This article explores transformations of development practice after economic reforms, through an ... more This article explores transformations of development practice after economic reforms, through an empirical account from Gujarat, western India — the country's poster-state of neoliberal reforms. It draws upon ethnographic fieldwork on the Hariyali watershed development intervention and the delivery of state-sponsored microcredit through the Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana programme in Dahod district, eastern Gujarat. This study of development practice reveals the ascendancy of market rationalities in development agencies; the rise of contracting and subcontracting by a restructured rural bureaucracy; the state's devolution of policy implementation to local political actors; and the deployment of self-governance techniques, specifically notation and inscription technologies, to create self-regulating development subjects. Springing from transformations within the state itself, these changes constitute fundamental shifts in the governance of development.
The impact of neoliberalism—an ideology that emphasizes private property and financial value-gene... more The impact of neoliberalism—an ideology that emphasizes private property and financial value-generation—has been little studied on development policy in India's drylands, which are inhabited by the greatest proportion of the country's poor. With global policy organisations and national governments emphasising market-oriented development in semi-arid areas, watershed development, the Indian state's largest development intervention for the drylands, now emphasises improving private land, intensifying input use and expanding irrigation in regions once considered ecologically fragile. Through an empirical account of the politics of categories, representations and technology, I discuss how neoliberal ideas of person, property and techniques of improvement are enacted in rainfed areas; and the implications for citizenship, equity and inclusion.
While membership in civic associations is regarded as an instrument of political engagement, lite... more While membership in civic associations is regarded as an instrument of political engagement, literature has largely ignored the diversity of associations. In an empirical investigation of Brazil and India, we find that membership in social and political associations affects political engagement differently, and in addition, political interest influences political engagement.
This dissertation investigates the interaction of market-based development policy with democratic... more This dissertation investigates the interaction of market-based development policy with democratic decentralization in ecological frontiers in western India inhabited by the vast majority of the country's poor. The study explores how the leaders of elected local bodies called panchayats who are driven by the imperatives of broad-based distribution deliver upwardly distributive capital-intensive development in resource-poor communities during a period of state-neoliberalization. On the basis of eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in eastern Gujarat, the study explores how the implication of panchayats-the world's largest system of democratic politicsin large-scale politics shapes the distribution of material resources in resource-dependent communities. In the context of the state's devolution of governance to non-state actors, the project investigates the role of political society actors including panchayat leaders, vote-brokers and political competitors in shaping the distribution and governance of market-led development and its impact on well-being. In doing so, the dissertation uses a mixed-method design combining a range of qualitative and quantitative techniques including archival research, household surveys, in-depth interviews, political ethnography, multi-site participant observation, and national, state and district-level data.
Although democratic decentralisation or community development by elected leaders is hypothesised ... more Although democratic decentralisation or community development by elected leaders is hypothesised to broaden development, there is little evidence on just how elected leaders make distributional decisions and far less on how communities in turn shape their leaders' decisions. This study combines structural equation modelling with ethnography in India to investigate how leaders of elected local bodies called panchayats distribute development. While quantitative findings reveal that democratic decentralisation mitigates elite capture, ethnography gives insight into the role of political brokers in brokering development for votes, widening distribution to non elite groups.
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developing countries through a study in Gujarat, western India. It draws upon ethnographic fieldwork on
market-driven development in India’s flagship state of neo-liberal reforms, and the delivery of state-sponsored
microcredit through the intervention. The rise of profit-maximizing priorities in government-owned
rural banks, the state’s deployment of contracting and subcontracting to implement development policy, and
the devolution of implementation to elected local bodies are discussed. This led to the responsibility for local
development being tacitly shifted to an ungoverned space in the locality. These practices reveal marketization,
decentralization and informalization to be crucial features of the post-liberalization state. (Pre-print version of article published in the European Journal of Development Research. The publisher-authenticated version: Daftary, D. (2015). "Development in Post-liberalization India: Marketization, Decentralization and Informalization in Gujarat." European Journal of Development Research.10.1057/ejdr.2015.42" is available at:
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developing countries through a study in Gujarat, western India. It draws upon ethnographic fieldwork on
market-driven development in India’s flagship state of neo-liberal reforms, and the delivery of state-sponsored
microcredit through the intervention. The rise of profit-maximizing priorities in government-owned
rural banks, the state’s deployment of contracting and subcontracting to implement development policy, and
the devolution of implementation to elected local bodies are discussed. This led to the responsibility for local
development being tacitly shifted to an ungoverned space in the locality. These practices reveal marketization,
decentralization and informalization to be crucial features of the post-liberalization state. (Pre-print version of article published in the European Journal of Development Research. The publisher-authenticated version: Daftary, D. (2015). "Development in Post-liberalization India: Marketization, Decentralization and Informalization in Gujarat." European Journal of Development Research.10.1057/ejdr.2015.42" is available at:
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