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SUMMARY:Deconstructing Development Realities in India - Lovansh Katiyar (C
 ambridge) and Saberi Mallick (Delhi)
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DESCRIPTION:This paper entails a critical analysis of the Indian developme
 ntal regime with specific emphasis on the prevalent developmental paradigm
  nurtured under predominant neoliberal global institutions\, and the persi
 stent utilisation of the didactic visuality of development through imagery
 \, surveillance and technology to connote progress at the exclusion of the
  demographic majority. The subsequent deconstruction of developmental real
 ities is an exercise in the illumination of the inherent limitations of co
 ntemporary developmental frameworks in accommodating the manifold dimensio
 ns of development subsuming social\, cultural and political facets. The co
 ntemporary status quo presents ideas of development in India with idealise
 d imagery so as to invisiblise the chasm between the realities of people a
 t the periphery and the elites. The propaganda of development serves as a 
 spectacle and\, therefore\, serves to unite the masses into the delusion o
 f progress through the imposition of a hegemonic visuality shaped by the p
 ower elite while the realities of the lives of people present a stark oppo
 sition. The homogenisation of the Indian body politic as equal benefactors
  of the pursuit of national development is sustained through the invisibil
 isation of the diverse marginalities that account for the demographic majo
 rity (Bahujan) of the country. The disparity in experiences accentuates a 
 necessity to adopt a developmental paradigm attuned to the actual cultural
  milieu\, as opposed to an ideal\, imperative to the construction of an eq
 uitable societal framework. This paper will utilise a socio-ethnographic a
 pproach to historicise the idea of development and deconstruct development
 al realities through an intersectional analytical lens thereby elucidating
  how disenfranchisement along the vertices of caste and gender informs the
  persistent marginalisation of certain communities by keeping at the centr
 e of the analysis the foundation of the Indian nation-state - the people o
 f India.
LOCATION:Room 9\, Faculty of History
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