Kabeer Bora

The Political Economy of Stagnation: Salariat Formation, Class Location, and the Inhibition of Capital Accumulation in Assam

This article offers a long-run political economy analysis of Assam’s structural underdevelopment through heterodox class analysis. It argues that stagnation is the endogenous product of a historically entrenched salariat—a class fraction whose material reproduction depends entirely on state patronage—formed through the...