Decolonizing Development

Liberatory Epistemologies from India and Latin America

Rahul A. Sirohi, Sonya Surabhi Gupta (Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India)

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Routledge India
27 September 2023

Regional studies; Development studies; Cultural studies; Hispanic & Latino studies; Political economy

This book turns to the intellectual discourses that have emerged from India and Latin America, two outposts of the Global South, on the themes of imperialism, sovereignty, development, and socio-economic, racial and caste inequalities.

It recovers the elided reflective traditions of thinkers, writers and activists from these peripheries and highlights the distinctive ideas, alliances and parallelisms in their works, as well as the manner in which they articulate liberatory paradigms which continue to have contemporary relevance. The book maps the innovative epistemic engagements of thinkers from India and Latin America, highlighting the manner in which they have disrupted and challenged the hierarchies of global knowledge production. It argues that political, spatial and historical distinctions notwithstanding, the experiences of peripheralization, their common traditions of resistance to oppression and their deeply entangled histories have forged a shared intellectual identity and a rich alternative set of emancipatory epistemologies grounded in the realities and histories of Southern nations. The book recovers this body of work as mass movements the world over seek civilizational alternatives to capitalist modernity.

The book will be of interest to students and researchers of development studies, history, political science, sociology, political economy, South Asian studies, Latin American studies and Global South studies.

By: Rahul A. Sirohi, Sonya Surabhi Gupta (Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India)
Imprint: Routledge India
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9781032159355
ISBN 10: 1032159359
Pages: 88
Publication Date: 27 September 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. Decolonizing Development: From Dadabhai Naoroji to Raúl Prebisch 2. Development and Social Identities: Race and Caste in Mariátegui and Ambedkar 3. Memories of Underdevelopment: Miguel Ángel Asturias’s Chronicles on India. Conclusion. Index

Rahul A. Sirohi is Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati. He is a development economist and his research currently focuses on the development experiences of Asia and Latin America. He is the author of From Developmentalism to Neoliberalism: A Comparative Analysis of Brazil and India (2019) and Reassessing the Pink Tide: Lessons from Brazil and Venezuela (2021). Sonya Surabhi Gupta is Professor of Latin American studies at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Her research interests focus on knowledge flows in the Global South, with special reference to Latin America and India in a cross-cultural context. Her most recent publication is the edited volume, Subalternities in India and Latin America: Dalit Autobiographies and the Testimonio (2022).