ISBN:
9781461643418
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (307 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Asia/Pacific/Perspectives Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.48/4/0954
Keywords:
Poor - Government policy - India
Abstract:
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, 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. 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. 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.
Abstract:
Intro -- Asia/Pacific/Perspectives -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - In the Beginning, There Was the Nehruvian State -- 1 - From Class Compromise to Class Accommodation: Labor's Incorporation into the Indian Political Economy -- THE CONGRESS PREPARES FOR INDEPENDENCE -- THE POSTWAR LABOR UPSURGE -- THE INDUSTRIAL TRUCE CONFERENCE -- THE DEMOBILIZATION OF LABOR -- THE EMPLOYER OFFENSIVE AND THE FATE OF THE INDUSTRIAL TRUCE -- LABOR'S DISTRIBUTIVE INTERESTS -- LABOR'S PARTICIPATORY INTERESTS -- FROM INDUSTRIAL PARTNERSHIP TO INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 2 - Problems of Social Power and the Discourses of the Hindu Right -- THE BIRTH OF THE RSS -- LEADING UP TO THE RAMJANAMBHOOMI AGITATION -- FROM RAMJANAMBHOOMI TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA -- THE POWER OF THE STATE -- NOTES -- 3 - Reinventing Public Power in the Age of Globalization -- MOVEMENTS AND DEVELOPMENT IN KERALA -- THE CAMPAIGN -- EXPLAINING THE ORIGINS OF THE CAMPAIGN -- MOVING THE STATE -- THE ROLE OF MOVEMENTS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 4 - Feminism, Poverty, and the Emergent Social Order -- I -- II -- III -- NOTES -- 5 - Who Are the Country's Poor? Social Movement Politics and Dalit Poverty -- DALITIZATION OF INDIAN POVERTY -- THE EVOLUTION OF POLICY AND MOVEMENT RESPONSE -- IDENTITY FORMATION AS STRATEGY TO DEAL WITH POVERTY -- THE DALIT PANTHERS-FAILED ADAPTATION OF AN EMERGING RADICALISM -- BAHUJAN SAMAJ PARTY-REDEFINITION AND THE POLITICS OF COMPROMISE -- NGOS AND SOFT RESISTANCE TO THE STATE'S NEOLIBERAL AGENDA -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 6 - Red in Tooth and Claw? -- ENVIRONMENTALISM OF THE POOR -- REVISITING CHIPKO, NARMADA, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTALIST ICONS -- NOTES -- 7 - Farmers' Movements and the Debate on Poverty and Economic Reforms in India -- "EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT RURAL POVERTY, BUT ...".
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