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Interstate Migration in India During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis Based on Mobile Visitor Location Register and Roaming Data 2019冠状病毒病大流行期间印度州际移民:基于移动访客位置登记和漫游数据的分析

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Journal of South Asian Development Pub Date : 2022-09-25 DOI: 10.1177/09731741221122000

Arif Nizam, P. Sivakumar, S. Rajan

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When the Lewisian Dream Sours: Industrial Aspirations and Reverse Labour Migration 当刘易斯梦想破灭：工业抱负与劳动力反向迁移

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Journal of South Asian Development Pub Date : 2022-09-25 DOI: 10.1177/09731741221124061

A. Mezzadri, Kaustav Banerjee

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Development Schemes and the Hill District: Studying State–Society Relationship in Manipur 发展计划与山区:曼尼普尔邦国家与社会关系研究

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Journal of South Asian Development Pub Date : 2022-09-18 DOI: 10.1177/09731741221122001

Tanmoy Das

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Book review: Adrian Athique and Vibodh Parthasarathi (Eds). 2020. Platform Capitalism in India 书评：Adrian Athique和Vibodh Parthasarathi（编辑）。2020.印度的平台资本主义

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Journal of South Asian Development Pub Date : 2022-08-23 DOI: 10.1177/09731741221122669

Suryansu Guha

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Who Moved my Welfare Scheme? Federalism and the Politics of Credit Attribution in Rural India 谁转移了我的福利计划?联邦制与印度农村的信用归因政治

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Journal of South Asian Development Pub Date : 2022-08-05 DOI: 10.1177/09731741221113987

Priyanshu Gupta, Anuj Goyal, R. Bhattacharya

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Book review: Kanchan K. Malik and Vinod Pavarala (Eds.). 2021. Community Radio in South Asia: Reclaiming the Airwaves 书评:Kanchan K. Malik和Vinod Pavarala(编)。2021. 南亚社区广播:回收电波

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Journal of South Asian Development Pub Date : 2022-05-24 DOI: 10.1177/09731741221102013

Aniruddha Jena

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Valuing Women’s Labour: Some Notes on the ‘Compensated’ Model of Surrogacy 重视妇女劳动:关于代孕“有偿”模式的几点思考

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Journal of South Asian Development Pub Date : 2022-05-15 DOI: 10.1177/09731741221097576

Aishwarya Chandran

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Beyond Morality: The Moral Economy Framework and the Fisheries in Mumbai 超越道德：道德经济框架与孟买渔业

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Journal of South Asian Development Pub Date : 2022-05-14 DOI: 10.1177/09731741221095291

Gayatri Nair

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Between People and the State: The Ambivalence of Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellowship in India 人民与国家之间:印度总理农村发展奖学金的矛盾心理

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Journal of South Asian Development Pub Date : 2022-05-14 DOI: 10.1177/09731741221094652

Jyotirmaya Tripathy, Jogasankar Mahaprashasta

{"title":"Between People and the State: The Ambivalence of Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellowship in India","authors":"Jyotirmaya Tripathy, Jogasankar Mahaprashasta","doi":"10.1177/09731741221094652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09731741221094652","url":null,"abstract":"The Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellowship (PMRDF), a flagship programme of the Ministry of Rural Development to facilitate development programme delivery in districts affected by Maoist violence, was introduced in 2011 and suspended in 2014. Though in a state of limbo at present, PMRDF created a complex template where binaries such as state/people, top-down/participatory and security/development were transcended and new ways of belonging generated, so as to make the developmental state an everyday reality in the lives of people. In this potential of PMRDF as a knowledge field to move beyond developmental platitudes, we encounter the limits of academic vocabulary to adequately capture how development matters on the ground. The article draws from critical literature on the postcolonial developmental state, secondary material on the experience of the PMRD Fellows as well as primary sources drawn from the authors’ interaction with a Fellow from Odisha. It is proposed that through PMRDF, the developmental state established its legitimacy by reaching out to people in underdeveloped regions even as it vernacularized its authority and undermined its own bureaucratic institutions. And the Fellows, far from being carriers of state power, and contrary to their representation in available literature, imagined themselves primarily as champions of people in need of development.","PeriodicalId":44040,"journal":{"name":"Journal of South Asian Development","volume":"17 1","pages":"178 - 194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43198680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Growth Volatility Relationship: A Spatial Panel Analysis of the States of India 增长波动关系:印度各邦的空间面板分析

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Journal of South Asian Development Pub Date : 2022-05-14 DOI: 10.1177/09731741221094654

Anuradha Patnaik

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