Capitalist Development in India's Informal Economy

Elisabetta Basile is Professor of Applied Economics in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Rome, Italy. She is co-convenor of the Europe-Asia Working Group of the European Association of Development and Training Institutions (EADI), and has worked extensively on capitalist change in Europe and in India.

• 1. The complexity of capitalist development in Provincial India Part 1: Analysing Non-Farm Capitalism in Provincial India 2. A Marxist/Institutionalist framework for the analysis of contemporary capitalism 3. Introducing non-farm capitalism in Provincial India 4. Exploring class structure in Provincial India 5. Caste-based interest representation and the hegemony of capital in India’s civil society Part 2: A Marxist/Institutionalist Analysis of Capitalism in Arni 6. Long-term change in Arni’s economy 7. Institutional and spatial embeddedness in Arni’s silk economy 8. Capital’s hegemony in Arni’s corporatist civil society 9. The low road of capitalism

"[...] a must for whoever is interested in the (bleak) reality of Indian development, but a crucially important addition to the panoply of methodological tools at the disposal of social scientists working on India." - The International Spectator"...the book by Elisabetta Basile enlarges our understanding ofIndia’s contemporary capitalism. Relying on a robust theoretical framework and developing anin-depth empirical analysis, the author disentangles the processes of socio-economic change,as well as the structures and relations that have been supporting rural non-farm growth."Christine LutringerEuropean Journal of Development Research (2015) 27, 623–624