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Analyze A.R. Desai’s views on India’s path of development.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

The title of A. R. Desai's India's Path of Development: A Marxist Approach (1984) is itself the argument. India after 1947 did not take a third way between capitalism and socialism; it took a capitalist path, laid by the state and described in socialist vocabulary. Analysing it means separating the claim, the mechanisms it rests…

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  • The mechanisms
  • Testing the thesis after 1991
  • Conclusion

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