[3] Chibber’s first book, Locked in Place, attempted to answer why some countries were able to build "developmental states" in the decades after World War II while others were not.

Chibber showed that the main reason Indian industrial policy only met with middling success was that domestic capital blocked attempts to build an effective planning apparatus.

[5] This article examined the sociological conditions for the decline of class analysis and its displacement by Postcolonial Theory in the South Asian context.

[6] In other words, postcolonial theory gives new life to Orientalist notions of the Global South, by presenting a highly exoticized and essentialized understanding of it – as fundamentally different from the West, incapable of being understood by Western categories, its people untouched by reason and rationality, etc.

Most prominently, Partha Chatterjee and Gayatri Spivak both criticized Chibber for his representation of the Subalternists’ work and postcolonial theory more generally.

Published by Jacobin Magazine, Chibber and Brenner wrote of their intent for the new publication: Discussion of capitalism is not off the table any longer.