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SUMMARY:Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-level Dem
 ocracy  - Dr Louise Tillin (King’s College London)
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DESCRIPTION:Welfare policies and direct benefit transfers have been at the
  heart of India’s political marketplace for several decades but the long
 er-term history of welfare in India is surprisingly little known. Louise T
 illin’s new book Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Mult
 i-Level Democracy (Cambridge University Press\, 2025) recovers a history t
 hat is crucial for understanding the current juncture of welfare politics 
 and political economy in India. Traversing more than a century of welfare 
 development from the late colonial period to the present-day\, the book as
 ks why India has ended up with a small protected formal sector workforce s
 hielded by social security and protection against retrenchment\, and a muc
 h larger population that labours informally and does not enjoy such protec
 tions. It examines why India’s model of industrialisation failed to prov
 ide an engine for mass employment or welfare state development\, and why t
 he focus of policy efforts has shifted over the last fifty years from empl
 oyment generation to the rise of ‘direct benefits’ which subsidise pre
 carious livelihoods. \n\nLouise Tillin is Professor of Politics at King’
 s India Institute\, King’s College London. She is the author of numerous
  books including Deconstructing India’s Democracy: Essays in Honour of J
 ames Manor (Orient Blackswan\, 2025) edited with Rob Jenkins\; The Politic
 s of Poverty Reduction in India: The UPA Government from 2004 to 2014 (Ori
 ent Blackswan\, 2020) co-authored with James Chiriyankandath\, Diego Maior
 ano and James Manor\; Indian Federalism (Oxford University Press\, 2019)\,
  Politics of Welfare: Comparisons across States (Oxford University Press\,
  2015)\, edited with Rajeshwari Deshpande and KK Kailash\; Remapping India
 : New States and their Political Origins (Hurst & Co/Oxford University Pre
 ss\, 2013) and has published in many academic journals. Since 2013\, she h
 as been the co-organiser of a series of conferences on India’s Political
  Economy. She holds degrees from the University of Cambridge\, University 
 of Pennsylvania and Institute of Development Studies\, Sussex.\n\nSpeakers
 :\nDr Louise Tillin (King’s College London)
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