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Discuss the social consequences of economic reforms like liberalization, privatisation and globalisation.

  • UPSC 2007
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

India's reform turn was forced by the balance-of-payments emergency of 1991: the New Industrial Policy of 24 July 1991 abolished industrial licensing for all but eighteen industries, cut the sectors reserved for the state from seventeen to eight and scrapped the MRTP asset ceiling. Yogendra Singh warned that such change works through India's hierarchies rather…

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  • Class: a self-confident new middle class
  • Caste: entry without equality
  • Agrarian distress and regional divergence
  • Gender: participation without emancipation
  • Family, consumption and culture
  • The state's altered relation to citizens
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