{"product_id":"9781400840779","title":"Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy were some countries able to build \"developmental states\" in the decades after World War II while others were not? Through a richly detailed examination of India's experience, \u003ci\u003eLocked in Place\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the critical factor was the reaction of domestic capitalists to the state-building project. During the 1950s and 1960s, India launched an extremely ambitious and highly regarded program of state-led development. But it soon became clear that the Indian state lacked the institutional capacity to carry out rapid industrialization. Drawing on newly available archival sources, Vivek Chibber mounts a forceful challenge to conventional arguments by showing that the insufficient state capacity stemmed mainly from Indian industrialists' massive campaign, in the years after Independence, against a strong developmental state.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChibber contrasts India's experience with the success of a similar program of state-building in South Korea, where political elites managed to harness domestic capitalists to their agenda. He then develops a theory of the structural conditions that can account for the different reactions of Indian and Korean capitalists as rational responses to the distinct development models adopted in each country.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eProvocative and marked by clarity of prose, this book is also the first historical study of India's post-colonial industrial strategy. Emphasizing the central role of capital in the state-building process, and restoring class analysis to the core of the political economy of development, \u003ci\u003eLocked in Place\u003c\/i\u003e is an innovative work of theoretical power that will interest development specialists, political scientists, and historians of the subcontinent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121565221104,"sku":"9781400840779","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781400840779_p0.jpg?v=1763712594","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781400840779","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}