In the rural areas employment opportunities for women has already shrunk rapidly. The shrinking employment prospects as a consequence of the heavy cuts in public investment and expenditure are borne mostly by the poorer sections. The increasing costs of privatised basic services for the people which should be provided by the State, is accompanied by a direct attack on the livelihood of the working people. The changes in the international situation with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the neo-liberal offensive only hastened the shift in the stance of the ruling class. The big bourgeoisie, which had grown enormously and fattened at the expense of the people by its hold over State power, was now prepared to embrace liberalisation. By the eighties the model of capitalist development based on State capitalism and State regulation to promote the cause of the bourgeois-landlord classes had exhausted its possibilities. With the steady proliferation of capitalism both in industry and agriculture over three decades, the Indian big bourgeoisie found it necessary to switch from the old pattern of development. The reasons for this need not be taken up here. By the eighties this path of development was not sustainable and reached a dead-end. Till the eighties, the Indian ruling class preferred to have a State-sponsored path of capitalist development which would enable them to accumulate sufficient capital and embark upon industrialisation. Underpinning this rightwing offensive is a change in the trajectory of capitalist development in India.
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