Development after Statism

Adnan Naseemullah is Lecturer in International Relations and South Asia at King's College London. He received his PhD in political science at the University of California, Berkeley, and has previously taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Johns Hopkins University, where he was Scharf Fellow in Political Economy. His research interests are economic development, state capacity and political order, in relation to the Indian subcontinent. His work has appeared in Studies in Comparative International Development and Governance.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical framework; 3. The rise and fall of India's Statist development; 4. Industrial finance after Statism in India; 5. Labor management after Statism in India; 6. Indian firms and the international economy; 7. The rise and fall of Pakistan's Statist development; 8. Industrialization after Statism in Pakistan; 9. Conclusion; Appendix 1. Statistical models; Appendix 2. List of interviews; References; Index.

'In a political economy framework, no one has probed firm-level manufacturing data in India and Pakistan more meticulously than Adnan Naseemullah. For that reason alone, let alone others, this book stands out and is worth reading.' Ashutosh Varshney, Brown University, Rhode Island