Following the reforms undertaken in the last two decades, India’s economic landscape has been radically transformed. This book examines the new economic map, which is shown to be shaped by two intertwined currents: globalization and sustainability. Weaving extensively through these currents and the canvas of development in the Indian economy they open up, this work seeks to introduce new methodologies, a corpus of concepts and modes of analysis to make sense of the emerging order of things. What transpires in the course of the investigation is a critical reflection of the present in which not only the new institutions, policies and practices are analyzed, but their limitations, fragility and at times myopic approaches are brought to light. By highlighting the rough edges created by the new conditions, this book is firmly engaged with the frontier of the Indian economy and ends up challenging many well-known conjectures and assumptions. In doing so, it strives to shift the Indian economy to a new terrain, thereby fundamentally re-locating and re-orienting the discourse of that economy as a unique object of analysis. CONTENTS 1. Introduction / Sarmila Banerjee, Anjan Chakrabarti Location of State 2. Rethinking and Theorizing the Indian State in the Context of New Economic Map / Anjan Chakrabarti, Anup Dhar Global Integration 3. Global Financial Crisis: What Did We Know, What Have We Learnt? / Kumarjit Mandal, Sabyasachi Kar 4. Volatility, Long Memory, and Chaos: A Discussion on some “Stylized Facts” in Financial Markets with a Focus on High Frequency Data / Amitava Sarkar, Gagari Chakrabarti and Chitrakalpa Sen 5. Globalization and Labour Markets / Ranajoy Bhattacharyya Agriculture at Crossroad 6. Production Performance of Indian Agriculture in the Era of Economic Reforms / Sankar Kumar Bhaumik, Sk. Abdul Rashid 7. Under the Shadow: Pricing and Marketing in Indian Agriculture in Globalization / R.S. Deshpande 8. Promoting Entrepreneurship Among Women in Agriculture / Nilabja Ghosh Infrastructure and Industry 9. Construction and Engineering Industry in India in PPP Regime with a Special Focus on Airport Development / Bhaskar Chatterjee, Sharmila Banerjee 10. Performance Evaluation Techniques: An Application to Indian Garments Industry / Simanti Bandyopadhyay, Subrata Majumder 11. Telecommunications Industry in the Era of Globalization with Special Reference to India / Debabrata Datta, Soumyen Sikdar and Susmita Chatterjee 12. Market Structure of Crude Steel Industry and India’s Position in the Era of Globalization / Tiyas Mallick 13. Nabadiganta: A New Horizon? Patriarchy, Globalization, and Women’s Agency in the IT Sector / Mousumi Dutta, Zakir Husain 14. Dualism in the Informal Economy: Exploring the Indian Informal Manufacturing Sector / Rajesh Bhattacharya, Snehashish Bhattacharya and Kalyan Kumar Sanyal 15. Indian Gems and Jewelry Industry: An Enquiry into the Nature of Competitive Advantage / Sudeshna Chattopadhyay, Sarmila Banerjee 16. On Assessment of Women Empowerment at Individual Level: An Analytical Exposition / Joysankar Bhattacharya, Sarmila Banerjee, Montu Bose 17. Sustainable Poverty Reduction: Credit for the Poor/ Asis Kumar Banerjee 18. Employment Guarantee and Natural Vulnerability: A Study of MGNREGA in Indian Sundarbans / Prasenjit Sarkhel 19. Inequality, Public Service Provision, and Exclusion of the Poor / Sukanta Bhattacharya, Resource and Environment 20. Stakeholder Attitudes and Conservation of Natural Resources: Exploring Alternative Approaches / Biswajit Ray and Rabindranath Bhattacharya 21. Indoor Air Pollution and Incidence of Morbidity: A Study on Urban West Bengal / Sabitri, Dutta 22. Efficient Pollution Management Through CETP: The Case of Calcutta Leather Complex / Subhra Bagchi, Sarmila Banerjee 23. Embracing the Global Knowledge Economy: Challenges Facing Indian Higher Education / Saumen, Chattopadhyay, Rabindranath N. Mukhopadhyay 24. HIV Epidemic: Global Response and India’s Policy / Arijita Dutta 25. The Political Economy of Mental Health in India / Anup Dhar, Anjan Chakrabarti and Pratiksha Banerjee