Volume 2 AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsPreface to Paperback Editions 1 Introduction 1 Why Class? 2 Why Not Class - Why Not a Class-Based Analytical Framework? 3 Components of a Class-Based Framework for Understanding Contemporary India 4 The Chapter Outline 2 Class in India 1 Existing Criticisms against Class Analysis of India 2 Existing Approaches to Class in India 3 A Critique of Existing Approaches to Class in India 4 Constructing a Class-Based Framework 5 Conclusion 3 The Capitalist Character of Class Society in Post-colonial India: Moving Beyond the Mode of Production Debate 1 The Development of Capitalist Relations, and the Barriers to This: A Brief Discussion on the Indian Mode of Production Debate 2 A Critique of Some Influential Ideas in the Indian Mode of Production Debate 3 Examining India's Capitalist Character on the Basis of Marx's Distinction between Formal and Real Subsumptions of Labor 4 Class Struggle and the (Slow and Uneven) Transition to Real Subsumption of Labor 5 Class Struggle and the 'Blocked' Transition to Real Subsumption of Labor 6 Possibilities of, and Limits to, Real Subsumption of Labor 7 Jairus Banaji's (and Others') Mistaken Subsumption of Labor Perspective 8 Conclusion 4 Neoliberal Capitalism with Indian Characteristics 1 Neoliberalism: Its General Traits 2 Neoliberalism in India: The Context 3 Neoliberalism with Indian Characteristics: Eight Theses 4 Concluding Comments: What Is to Be Done? 5 Capitalism and Technological Change: Reflections on the Technology-Poverty Relation 1 The Literature on the Green Revolution and Poverty: The Thesis and the Anti-thesis 2 The Literature on the Green Revolution and Poverty: A Critique of Neo-Malthusianism 3 Technology, Population and Poverty: A Contingent Relation 4 The Green Revolution and Poverty in India: An Empirical Analysis 5 Conclusion 6 Low-Wage Neoliberal Capitalism, Social-Cultural Difference, and Nature-Dependent Production 1 Shrimp Aquaculture and the Missing Laborer 2 A Labor-Based Approach to Nature-Dependent Commodity Production 3 The Local, National and the Global Contexts 4 Working for Less and in Poor Conditions: 'Capital' Negated 5 Making Sense of Low-Wage Capitalism: From the General to the Locally Specific 6 Conclusion 7 Class Relations, Class Struggle, and the State in India 1 Existing Views on the Indian State: A Critical Review 2 The Indian State and Its Class Base 3 A Coalition/Alliance of Proprietary Classes 4 The Indian State, Lower Classes, and Lower-Class Struggle 5 State Form, State Policy, and Class Struggle 6 The Indian State and the Class Contradictions of Economic Development 7 ConclusionBibliographyIndex.

Volume 1 Introduction -- Class in India -- The capitalist character of class society in post-colonial India: moving beyond the mode of production debate -- Neoliberal capitalism with Indian characteristics -- Capitalism and technological change: reflections on the technology-poverty relation -- Low-wage neoliberal capitalism, social-cultural difference, and nature-dependent production -- Class relations, class struggle, and the state in India -- Appendix 1: Processes influencing the balance of power between capital and labor -- Appendix 2: A suggested research program on agrarian neoliberalism.