The changing nature of the state in the era of globalization is debated by several researchers and is part of various public debates. This article explores neoliberalism and globalization and their impact and process on the postcolonial Indian state. Certain characterizations of neoliberal states are commonly accepted. By understanding and comparing two government-sponsored development programs from different eras, the intention is to formulate a perspective that might give us reason to rethink these characterizations. In exploring the marks of modern power, Michel Foucault coined the term "governmentality" – a concept intended to open an investigation into the myriad of more or less calculated and systematic thoughts and actions that seek to shape, regulate or manage the way how people behave by acting according to their hopes, circumstances, and environment.1 He was of the opinion that governing a state is most effective when it colonizes ways of thinking. Foucault's own examples of work in "The Subject and Power" speak to a number of resistance struggles that have developed in recent years, such as "opposition to the power of men over women, of parents over children, psychiatry on the mentally ill”. , of medicine on the population, of administration on people's lifestyles. »2 Despite their diversity, these struggles are significant for Foucault because they share a set of common points that allow them to be recognized as local forms of resistance to governmentality. These oppositional struggles focus on the effects of power experienced by the individuals who are immediately subject to it. While neoliberal governmentality seeks to minimize the power of the state as much as...... middle of paper ...... capital and communication. The era of globalization has challenged these theories and called into question the territorial sovereignty of the nation-state. The increased mobility of capital, representation and people has made national borders more porous and state control over regions less and less substantial. These growing alliances and networks make it possible to decode particular aspects of the nation-state, thus raising the question of their inclusion in social space. Works cited1. Foucault 1991, 1997; Barry et al. 1996; Dean 1999; India 2005; Suzana Sawyer and Edmund Terence Gomez 2008; 2. Gupta and Sharma 20064. Joerg Knieling and Frank Othengrafen, Spatial planning and culture5. Corrigan and Sayer 1985; Fuller and Benei 2000; Mitchell 1999; Gupta 1995; Hansen and Stepputat 2001; Herzfeld 1992; Joseph and Nugent 1994; Scott 1998; Steinmetz 1999)