This book was originally published as a special issue of Economy and Society.
Stuart Corbridge is Professor of International Development at LSE, where he is also Deputy Director and Provost. He is the author, with John Harriss and Craig Jeffrey, of India Today: Economy, Politics and Society (2013).
Alpa Shah
is Associate Professor (Reader) in Anthropology at LSE where she leads a research programme on Inequality and Poverty in India. She is the author of In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India (2010) and is writing a book on the Maoist-inspired Naxalite movement.