Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Foreword by Deepak Nayyar
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 What is this ‘New’ India? An Introduction
- Chapter 2 New Interpretations of India's Economic Growth in the Twentieth Century
- Chapter 3 Continuity and Change: Notes on Agriculture in ‘New India’
- Chapter 4 An Uneasy Coexistence: The New and the Old in Indian Industry and Services
- Chapter 5 Is the New India Bypassing Women? Gendered Implications of India's Growth
- Chapter 6 The ‘New’ Non-Residents of India: A Short History of the NRI
- Chapter 7 Revivalism, Modernism and Internationalism: Finding the Old in the New India
- Chapter 8 Creative Tensions: Contemporary Fine Art in the ‘New’ India
- List of Contributors
- Index
Chapter 5 - Is the New India Bypassing Women? Gendered Implications of India's Growth
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Foreword by Deepak Nayyar
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 What is this ‘New’ India? An Introduction
- Chapter 2 New Interpretations of India's Economic Growth in the Twentieth Century
- Chapter 3 Continuity and Change: Notes on Agriculture in ‘New India’
- Chapter 4 An Uneasy Coexistence: The New and the Old in Indian Industry and Services
- Chapter 5 Is the New India Bypassing Women? Gendered Implications of India's Growth
- Chapter 6 The ‘New’ Non-Residents of India: A Short History of the NRI
- Chapter 7 Revivalism, Modernism and Internationalism: Finding the Old in the New India
- Chapter 8 Creative Tensions: Contemporary Fine Art in the ‘New’ India
- List of Contributors
- Index
Summary
Introduction
High rates of growth have characterized developments in the Indian economy over the last few years, with a growth rate of close to 9 per cent for three consecutive years from 2005–6 to 2007–8, surpassing all expectations (Government of India 2007). Whereas GDP growth amounted to less than 4 per cent per year during 1965–74 (in fact since Indian independence in 1947), it has been close to 6 per cent per year since 1985, an increase in the growth rate by one-and-a-half times. Even more significant is the increase in the annual rate of GDP per capita growth from 1.4 per cent during 1965–74 to 4.3 per cent during 1995–2004, a threefold increase, resulting partly from a slowing down of population growth (Rao et al. 2008).
This remarkable growth, often claimed as evidence for the success of a pro-market strategy that has led to an expansion of choices and opportunities, is viewed as a key characteristic of the ‘new India’. Yet concerns about the inclusiveness of the growth process remain, pointing to the persistence of an ‘old India’, with not all sectors, states or sections of the population able to equally access these new, market-based opportunities. The interests of urban private capital (big business) and rural social elites (often newly emergent caste-based groups) continue to be met at the cost of providing education, health or extension services to the poor, confronted with both rising prices and exclusion from the new regime of accumulation (Corbridge and Harriss 2000; Kohli 2006; Bardhan 1998).
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- A New India?Critical Reflections in the Long Twentieth Century, pp. 99 - 126Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2010
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