ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to discuss the new logic of inclusion and exclusion in globalizing India and tries to assess its potentiality as well as limitation. Contemporary India is experiencing a deepening of democracy and growth of market economy where there is increasing political and socio-economic participation from below and at the same time the penetration of governance and capital into everyday life. The new agenda is to investigate to what extent this globalizing situation enables participation and inclusion or results in marginalization and exclusion of various social groups in democratic processes and market economy. If the people affected by the penetration of the global capital have no hope that their dissatisfaction stemming from exclusion and marginalization will be resolved through normal democratic channels. The chapter looks from the perspective of 'developmental democracy'. It proposes contemporary India indicates the potential for a model of development that differs from the presupposition of the contradiction between democracy and market economy.
