ABSTRACT
The chapter aims to understand post-socialism in India through the case of water supply in Bengaluru. Post-socialism in India raises questions regarding the extent to which the concept of post-socialism can be used beyond Central and Eastern Europe. It defines post-socialism without an ‘actually existing socialism’, and is also in many ways different from post-socialism as understood in Eastern Europe. In the case of India, post-socialism is primarily a shrinking state but it is also a complex transformation rather than a clear-cut transition from one infrastructural system to another. The chapter uses two main dimensions to develop the framework on post-socialism in India: public-private nexus and informality-illegality.
