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The chapter explores the civilizational nexus of the discourse and practice of development. The Europeanization of the globe of which it is a part is located in a whole multiplicity of civilizational nexuses. The Indian civilizational nexus has its own distinctiveness to contribute. Adopting a forsaken idiom of polemic, this essay makes the critique of development relational, unraveling the interactive framework in which developmental discourse assumes predominance. Overall, this chapter becomes a springboard of thinking through the idea of development, in a manner unusual in development discourse of our times.
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Ray, R., Das, A.K. (2019). The Danger of Development Today: An Inevitable Polemic. In: Pathak, D., Das, A. (eds) Investigating Developmentalism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17443-9_2
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