Social Movements in India: Poverty, Power, and PoliticsRaka Ray, Mary Fainsod Katzenstein Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 - 311 pagine Social movements have played a vital role in Indian politics since well before the inception of India as a new nation in 1947. During the Nehruvian era, from Independence to Nehru's death in 1964, poverty alleviation was a foundational standard against which policy proposals and political claims were measured; at this time, movement activism was directly accountable to this state discourse. However, the role of social movements in India has shifted during the last several decades to accompany a changed political focus--from state to market and from reigning ideologies of secularism to credos of religious nationalism. In the first volume to focus on poverty and class in its analysis of social movements, a group of leading India scholars shows how social movements have had to change because poverty reduction no longer serves its earlier role as a political template. Nonetheless, particular sectors of social movement politics remain the holding vessels for India's egalitarian conscience. With distinctive chapters on gender, lower castes, environment, the Hindu Right, Kerala, labor, farmers, and biotechnology, Social Movements in India will be attractive to students and researchers in many different disciplines. Contributions by: Amita Baviskar, Anuradha Chakravarty, Vivek Chibber, Gopal Guru, Patrick Heller, Ron Herring, Mary John, Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Neema Kudva, Gail Omvedt, Raka Ray, and Tanika Sarkar. |
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Pagina 7
... Gandhi's leadership with Nehru's very different visionary commitment to democratic socialism following Independence set the terms of movement politics from the earliest days of post - 1947 politics . In the decades prior to Independence ...
... Gandhi's leadership with Nehru's very different visionary commitment to democratic socialism following Independence set the terms of movement politics from the earliest days of post - 1947 politics . In the decades prior to Independence ...
Pagina 8
... Gandhi then initiated her famous " garibi hatao " ( destroy poverty ) scheme to garner popular support in the impending 1971 and 1972 elections , which she used as leverage to concentrate power in her hands.31 Gandhi recreated the ...
... Gandhi then initiated her famous " garibi hatao " ( destroy poverty ) scheme to garner popular support in the impending 1971 and 1972 elections , which she used as leverage to concentrate power in her hands.31 Gandhi recreated the ...
Pagina 9
... Gandhi's Prime Ministership , however , was short lived , giving way to a plu- ralization of debates ( about caste , ethnic , tribal , and gender identities ) . By the 1990s , the politics of religious nationalism and the ascendance of ...
... Gandhi's Prime Ministership , however , was short lived , giving way to a plu- ralization of debates ( about caste , ethnic , tribal , and gender identities ) . By the 1990s , the politics of religious nationalism and the ascendance of ...
Pagina 13
... Gandhi's assassination , in addition , had for the years after Inde- pendence fully delegitimized the influence of Hindu forces within the Con- gress . None of this is to say that conservative or leftist forces were silenced within ...
... Gandhi's assassination , in addition , had for the years after Inde- pendence fully delegitimized the influence of Hindu forces within the Con- gress . None of this is to say that conservative or leftist forces were silenced within ...
Pagina 16
... banning of the RSS following the assas- sination of Gandhi by one of its members , appeals to religiously - based Hindu identity were temporarily discredited . But the institutional constraints 16 Raka Ray and Mary Fainsod Katzenstein.
... banning of the RSS following the assas- sination of Gandhi by one of its members , appeals to religiously - based Hindu identity were temporarily discredited . But the institutional constraints 16 Raka Ray and Mary Fainsod Katzenstein.
Sommario
From Class Compromise to Class Accommodation Labors Incorporation into the Indian Political Economy | 32 |
Problems of Social Power and the Discourses of the Hindu Right | 62 |
Reinventing Public Power in the Age of Globalization Decentralization and the Transformation of Movement Politics in Kerala | 79 |
Feminism Poverty and the Emergent Social Order | 107 |
Who Are the Countrys Poor? Social Movement Politics and Dalit Poverty | 135 |
Red in Tooth and Claw? Looking for Class in Struggles over Nature | 161 |
Farmers Movements and the Debate on Poverty and Economic Reforms in India | 179 |
Miracle Seeds Suicide Seeds and the Poor GMOs NGOs Farmers and the State | 203 |
Strong States Strong NGOs | 233 |
Archival Abbreviations | 267 |
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About the Contributors | 309 |
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Pagina 28 - Our economic programme must therefore be based on a human outlook and must not sacrifice man to money. If an industry cannot be run without starving its workers then the industry must close down. If the workers on the land have not enough to eat then the intermediaries who deprive them of their full share must go.
Pagina 30 - I suggest that the emergent possibilities made it imperative to include the term 'consent', even as its scope was 39Cited in Radha Kumar, The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Womens' Rights and Feminism in India, 1800-1990 (Delhi: Kali for Women, 1993), pp.