This book assesses the changing nature of the state in the period after liberalization in India. It includes detailed analysis of its implications for important issues such as inequality, poverty, basic needs provision, citizenship, federalism and democratization.

Introduction: The State in India After Liberalization Part 1: The Indian State as Moral and Political Economy 1. On the Enchantment of the State 2. An Institutional Perspective on the Post-liberalization State in India Part 2: Citizens, Sociality, and Association 3. States of Empowerment 4. 'New Politics' and the Governmentality of the Post-liberalization State in India: An Ethnographic Perspective Part 3: Liberalization, the State, and the Experience of Poverty 5. Poverty Knowledge and Poverty Action in India 6. 'Money Itself Discriminates': Obstetric Crises in the Time of Liberalization Part 4: Law, Identity, and Rights 7. Normative Vision, Cultural Accommodation and Muslim Law Reform in India 8. The Rule of Law and the Rule of Property: Law-Struggles and the Neo-Liberal State in India Part 5: Enterprising Citizens 9. The Terms of Trade: Competition and Cooperation in Neoliberal North India 10. Becoming Entrepreneurial Subjects: Neoliberalism and Media