Problematizing the Kerala model

Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 33-35

  Heller, Patrick ^a  

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References (8)

1. Ashutosh Varshney, Civic Life and Ethnic Conflict: Hindus and Muslims in India (New Haven: Yale University Press, forthcoming 1998).
2. See Olle Törnquist, "The Next Left? Democratisation and Attempts to Renew the Radical Political Development Project," NIAS Reports (Copenhagen), no. 24 (1995).
3. Pranab Bardhan, The Political Economy of Development in India (New York: Basil Blackwell, 1984); Atul Kohli, Democracy and Discontent: India's Growing Crisis of Governability (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990); and Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susan Hoeber Rudolph, In Pursuit of Lakshmi: The Political Economy of the Indian State (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987).
4. Pranab Bardhan, The Political Economy of Development in India (New York: Basil Blackwell, 1984); Atul Kohli, Democracy and Discontent: India's Growing Crisis of Governability (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990); and Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susan Hoeber Rudolph, In Pursuit of Lakshmi: The Political Economy of the Indian State (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987).
5. Pranab Bardhan, The Political Economy of Development in India (New York: Basil Blackwell, 1984); Atul Kohli, Democracy and Discontent: India's Growing Crisis of Governability (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990); and Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susan Hoeber Rudolph, In Pursuit of Lakshmi: The Political Economy of the Indian State (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987).
6. It is true that investments in primary education have not to date produced the anticipated growth dividend, at least not as conventionally measured. The biggest obvious dividend for Kerala has simply been the return on the export of labor, much of which has in fact been captured by the national economy. A case can be made that the failure to translate increased human capital in economic capital is tied to Kerala's status as a sub-national state and the mobility of skilled labor within the national economy.
7. Patrick Heller, "From Class Struggle to Class Compromise: Redistribution and Growth in a South Indian State," Journal of Development Studies 31, no. 5 (June 1995): 645-72.
8. Between 1988 and 1994 Kerala's economy grew at a yearly average of 6.4 percent compared to 5.0 percent for India.