Industrial/statecraft : infrastructure and the making of industrial capitalism in India, ca. 1940

In theories of development, public infrastructure serves as one of the myriad mediums through which the state seeks validation. In the modern period, infrastructure has often served as the symbol of state led progress. Infrastructure is thus a project of endorsement and justification of state's intervention. It is superfluous to say that infrastructure is a contested terrain within which the political economy of development unfolds. However, this thesis argues that it is through this iteration of infrastructure's intricate ways of creation and functioning that private capital begins to accumulate in post-colonial India. The project looks at the discourse of industrial development and planning in late and post-colonial India, investigating the manner in which infrastructure appears as a trope not only for state's validation but also for aggregation of the Indian industrialist class.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Ghatak, Sridipta.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Arindam Dutta.

• Architecture.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123588

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/123588