Module 1: Basic concepts: Liberalization, Privatization, Globalisation, Social Transformation, and LPG in India

Module 2: Post-Liberalization Transformation and Development Challenges in India, Land and Livelihoods in Neoliberal India.

Module 3: Impact of Liberalization on Society and Culture in India

Module 4: Foreignisation of space Liberalization, development, displacement and dissent in India Acts and Policies of Land Acquisition, Resettlement and Rehabilitation in India

Module 5: Agriculture sector in Neoliberal India, Non-Farm Employment and Rural Transformation in India, Contract farming in India

To expose students to liberalization policies and transformations

To explain how neoliberal policies have shaped or are shaping India in contemporary times.

After the completion of this course, students will be able to:
CO1: Describe the basic concepts of LPG
CO2: Understand the important events or happenings, development challenges and opportunities in India after liberalization,
CO3: Examine the impact of liberalization on Indian society and culture
CO4: Explain the development projects, displacement, resistance and certain other emerging issues of land in Neoliberal India
CO5: Examine the agrarian crisis and rural transformation in Neoliberal India,

Derne, Steve, Globalization on the Ground: Media and the Transformation of Culture, Class, and Gender in India, SAGE Publications, New Delhi , 2008

Lukose, Ritty A, Liberalization’s Children: Gender, Youth, and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India, Duke University Press, Durham , 2009

Mohanty, B. B. (ed.), Critical Perspectives on Agrarian Transition: India in the global debate., Routledge, London , 2016

Mishra, N. K. (ed.)., Development Challenges of India After Twenty Five Years of Economic Reforms: Inequality, labour, employment and migration, Springer, Singapore , 2020