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Introduction to a special issue of India Review: Reflections on Politics and Policy for a post-Covid-19 Era: Analysing Continuities and Fractures through the First Wave of 2020 / Prakash, Amit   Journal Article
Prakash, Amit Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract The challenge that the COVID-19 pandemic has posed to the extant socio-economic and political system had created a degree of disjunct that may be more difficult to reconcile without significant paradigmatic and concomitant policy change. While this question applies to the entire world, the present special issue is focused on rethinking some select facets of these questions in the Indian context. In doing so, the papers presented here locate the crisis that has been exacerbated by the pandemic in the longer contextual experience of their relevant area and reflect on some possibilities for the post-COVID-19 era.
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Shadow of the pandemic and the Beleaguered Liberal-Democratic Script in India / Prakash, Amit   Journal Article
Prakash, Amit Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic of 2020-21 has acted as an inflection point, exposing the fragility of liberal democracy in India, already beleaguered by the rise of majoritarian populism since 2014, buttressed by a process of expansion of bureaucratic power and autocratic legalism while marginalizing the processes of political accountability – étatisation, and normalization of state violence. The combined impact of such developments has been an erasure of basic rights to life and livelihood for the poor, rooted not only in state incapacity but also in state acquiring impunity for its acts of coercion and violence against its own citizens. Many of these processes have come into stark focus during the Covid-19 pandemic, but have longer histories and are likely to have impact far beyond the pandemic. The paper examines some of these processes with the help of three interlinked but conceptually distinct strands: (a) étatisation and suspension of politics; (b) (en)forcement of a new normal during the health emergency; and (c) erasure of right to life and livelihood.
Key Words Liberal Democracy  Rights  Migrant Workers  Pandemic  Etatisation  Liberal Script 
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