Chapter 1. Changing Contexts, Shifting Roles, and the Recasting of the Role of the Indian State: An Introduction (Anthony P. D’Costa) -- Part 1: Theorizing the State’s Changing Role in a Changing Context -- Chapter 2. From Passive Beneficiary to ‘Rights Claimant’: What Difference Does It...

After first analysing the economic development processes of emerging Asian economies in general, this book explores the development implications of India’s seventy years (1947-2017) of socio-economic policy regimes. It discusses structural dualism and the digital divide, which it identifies as...

Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Interrogating Disability in India -- Abstract -- 1.1 Defining Disability -- 1.2 State Policies, Disability Discourse and Quality of Life of Disabled People in India -- 1.2.1 Programmatic Interventions for Persons with...