Basile, Elisabetta.

Capitalist development in India's informal economy / Elisabetta Basile. - xvi, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

The complexity of capitalist development in provincial India -- Analysing non-farm capitalism in provincial India -- A Marxist/institutionalist framework for the analysis of contemporary capitalism -- Introducing non-farm capitalism in provincial India -- Exploring class structure in provincial India -- Caste-based interest representation and the hegemony of capital in India's civil society -- A Marxist/institutionalist analysis of capitalism in Arni -- Long-term change in Arni's economy -- Institutional and spatial embeddedness in Arni's silk economy -- Capital's hegemony in Arni's corporatist civil society -- The low road of capitalism.

9780415642682 (hbk.)


Rural development--India.
Informal sector (Economics)--India.
Social stratification--India.
Marxian economics--India

307.14120954 / BAS/C