The Developmental Imagination and India

Saturday, January 4, 2014: 3:10 PM
Harding Room (Marriott Wardman Park)
Benjamin Zachariah, University of Heidelberg
This paper traces the vicissitudes of thinking about development in connection with India. it makes the distinction between 'developmentalism', associated with states and statist agencies, and a wider 'developmental imagination' that underpins the nature of possible interventions and legitimation in the realms of politics and policy.