...This concluding chapter reflects on entrepreneurial citizenship as a global project, promoted not only by Indian elites but also by the U.S. Department of State and global institutions of economic governance. Ultimately, it argues that the function of entrepreneurial citizenship is to subsume hope...

...This introductory chapter provides an overview of entrepreneurial citizenship. Entrepreneurial citizenship promises that citizens can construct markets, produce value, and do nation building all at the same time. It attempts to hail people's diverse visions for development in India—desires citizens...

...This chapter discusses how politicians and business elites attempt to pose entrepreneurial citizenship as new kind of common sense in response to dilemmas of liberalized development. It shows how civil society responded to the state's call to entrepreneurship. Middle-class Indians put on festivals...

...This chapter examines how champions of entrepreneurial citizenship remake education, proposing that the skills of producing innovation and the skills of taking civic action are one and the same. These educational reforms promise that “every child” can be an entrepreneur. This model appears...

... of “entrepreneurial citizenship” in India over the past seventy years, demonstrating how a global ethos of development through design has come to shape state policy, economic investment, and the middle class in one of the world's fastest-growing nations. The book chronicles the practices and mindsets that hold up...