Social Movements and the State in India Deepening Democracy? /
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| Summary: | XIII, 297 p. 2 illus. text |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016. |
| Series: | Rethinking International Development series,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59133-3 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Social Movements, State Formation and Democracy in India: An Introduction; Alf Gunvald Nilsen and Kenneth Bo Nielsen
- 2. The Slow-Motion Counterrevolution: Developmental Contradictions and the Emergence of Neoliberalism; Radhika Desai
- 3. The Politics of Caste and the Deepening of India’s Democracy: The Case of the Backward Caste Movement in Bihar; Jeffrey Witsoe
- 4. Transnational Dalit Feminists in-between the Indian State, the UN and the Global Justice Movement; Eva-Maria Hardtmann
- 5. Feminist Efforts to Democratize Democracy: Insights from Four Decades of Activism in India; Manisha Desai
- 6. Women Workers, Collective Action and the “Right to Work’ in Madhya Pradesh; Nandini Nayak
- 7. Turbid Transparency: Retelling the Story of the Right to Information Act in India; Prashant Sharma
- 8. Rights based laws in practise: A view from Southern Orissa; Minati Dash
- 9. Re-making Labour in India: State Policy, Corporate Power and Labour Movement Mobilization; Michael Gillan
- 10. Blind Alleys and Red Herrings? Social Movements, the State, Class Alliances and Pro-Labouring Class Strategy; Jonathan Pattenden
- 11. Disappearing Landlords and the Unmaking of Revolution: Maoist Mobilization, the State and Agrarian Change in northern Telangana; Jostein Jakobsen
- 12. Conclusion; Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Alf Gunvald Nilsen.