India's Experiment with Community Development: Revisiting the State and Community

Q3 Arts and Humanities

Journal of Global South Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.1353/gss.2022.0003

Hena Khatun, Jyotirmaya Tripathy

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Abstract:Development in postcolonial India remains a contested terrain where competing approaches are negotiated and operationalized. From the early days of independence, development discourse in India carried elements of Nehruvian impulse of state-led technocratic development as well as people-centric community development primarily influenced by the Gandhian notion of the village economy. The present paper aims at engaging with this Indian development complex, where conventional binaries such as state-led/community-led, national/local, top-down/bottom-up, and so forth are transcended, leading to a framework where the binaries become complementary. It traces the evolution of community development and engages with its mainstreaming in the early decades of independence as well as in the neoliberal phase of developmental governance. Although this renewed trend of involving the community in the development process presents itself to be more people-centric, it is argued that such a tendency could be as homogenizing as the narratives of national and global institutions. The paper recognizes the ambivalence of community development and proposes that the state and community, far from being autonomous spaces, mediate and produce each other.

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印度的社区发展实验：对国家和社区的再审视

摘要：后殖民时代的印度的发展仍然是一个有争议的领域，在这个领域，竞争性的方法是通过谈判和实施的。从独立初期起，印度的发展话语就包含了尼赫鲁式的国家领导的技术官僚发展冲动，以及主要受甘地乡村经济理念影响的以人民为中心的社区发展。本论文旨在参与印度的发展综合体，在这里，传统的二元体系，如国家主导/社区主导、国家/地方、自上而下/自下而上等被超越，从而形成一个二元体系互补的框架。它追溯了社区发展的演变，并在独立的最初几十年以及发展治理的新自由主义阶段将其纳入主流。尽管这种让社区参与发展进程的新趋势表现为更加以人为本，但有人认为，这种趋势可能与国家和全球机构的叙事一样同质化。本文认识到社区发展的矛盾心理，并提出国家和社区远不是自治的空间，而是相互调节和产生的。

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