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Summary
Arild Engelsen Ruud, ‘Embedded Bengal? The Case for Politics’, Forum for Development Studies, 1999: 2, pp. 235–259.
Starting with Peter Evans's ‘embedded autonomy’ model on the interface of society and state in developing countries, the article seeks to investigate the applicability of the model to an Indian state, that of West Bengal. It is argued that although preconditions are met for the particular constellation of embedded autonomy to generate synergy, this still does not take place in several sectors of society, in particular in education. Rather than institutional arrangements a more profitable angle lies in the manner in which ‘the state’ is linked to ‘society’ at the very local-most level, how political interests are worked out and groups are balanced against each other.