The papers in this book show that the state intervenes in the development process according to its own predilections, depending on the interests and views of those who dominate the state.
Sekhar Bandyopadhyay is Director of the New Zealand India Research Institute and Professor of Asian History at Victoria University of Wellington, where he has been teaching since 1992. His academic specialisation is in social and political history of modern India. He has also written on the Indian diaspora and India-New Zealand relations in historical times.Abhijit Dasgupta teaches sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. He is the author of Growth with Equity (1998). Willem van Schendel is Professor of Comparative History at Erasmus University.
