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Introduction / Ranabir Samaddar and Suhit K. Sen -- Two constitutional tasks : setting up the Indian state and the Indian government / Ranabir Samaddar -- The Nehruvian state, developmental imagination, nationalism and the government / Benjamin Zachariah -- The political constitution of India : party and government, 1946-57 / Suhit K. Sen -- Imaginations and manifestos of the political parties on ideals of developmental governance / Ashutosh Kumar -- Who will be able to access the provisions of liberty? : ability, disability, and the interrogation of norms / Kalpana Kannabiran -- Whose security, whose development? : lessons from campaigns against female infanticide in Tamil Nadu / Swarna Rajagopalan -- Rules of governance in developing rural India / Ratan Khasnabis.

"This volume looks at the ways in which governance in the exercise of its strategies also acts as a process of production of subjects. It argues that governance is not a one-sided affair starting and ending with those who rule and govern, producing fiats, decrees, and diktats, but a productive process -- one that produces subjects of governance who in turn respond to the process, and make the field of governance a contentious one. Against the backdrop of the first transition of democracy in India from its origin in a colonial polity to the first phase of its independent life after the promulgation of the Indian Constitution in 1950, this volume explores the second transition towards developmental democracy, examining the interrelations between globalisation, development and structures of governance. The volume suggests that while there is need to reflect on the governance of transition, it is important to question how democracy negotiates this transition."--Publisher's website

This volume looks at the ways in which governance in the exercise of its strategies also acts as a process of production of subjects. It argues that governance is not a one-sided affair starting and ending with those who rule and govern, producing fiats, decrees, and diktats, but a productive process - one that produces subjects of governance who in turn respond to the process, and make the field of governance a contentious one. Against the backdrop of the first transition of democracy in India from its origin in a colonial polity to the first phase of its independent life after the promulgati

1. Where is Rajarhat? -- 2. Destruction of a world -- 3. Losers and gainers -- 4. Urban legends of consent -- 5. Logistics and nightmares -- 6. New town, new labour -- 7. The global and national histories of Rajarhat -- 8. Politics of the multitude -- 9. Concluding reflections.