ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the development of a specific kind of capitalism in Chhattisgarh. The policies of globalised capitalism were supervised and implemented by the new state of Chhattisgarh which was carved out from the map of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Despite all the claims of virtual and real unification or the so-called virtual and real borderlessness of the world by globalisation processes, the socio-geographical reality is still unevenly structured. The meanings of Chhattisgarh region and regions within Chhattisgarh have changed in the various phases of history. Coal has been the basis for the development of the Korba–Bilaspur conurbation. The reserves of coal found in this area are responsible for the establishment of world renowned collieries and power stations. The demand for recognition of Chhattisgarh as a separate state was first raised in the early 1920s by the Raipur Congress unit in 1924, at the meeting of the Raipur district Congress.
