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Power and contestation : India since 1989 / Nivedita Menon and Aditya Nigam.
Van Pelt Library DS480.853 .M47 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Menon, Nivedita.
- Series:
- Global history of the present
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- India--Politics and government--1977-.
- India.
- Politics and government.
- India--Foreign relations--1984-.
- International relations.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 219 pages : map ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood Pub. ; London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Summary:
- 1989 marks the unraveling of India's "Nehruvian Consensus" around the idea of a modern, secular nation with a self-reliant economy. Caste and religion have come to play major roles in national politics. Global economic integration has led to conflict between the state and dispossessed people, but processes of globalization have also enabled new spaces for political assertion, such as around sexuality. Older challenges to the idea of India continue from movements in Kashmir and the North-East, while Maoist insurgency has deepened its bases. In a world of American empire, India as a nuclear power has abandoned non-alignment, a shift that is contested by voices within. Power and Contestation shows that the turbulence and turmoil of this period are signs of India's continued vibrancy and democracy. The book is an ideal introduction to the complex internal histories and external power relations of a major global player for the new century.
- Contents:
- India at a glance xiii
- Introduction: a genealogy of the 1990s 1
- 1 The recalcitrance of caste 15
- 2 Politics of Hindutva and the minorities 36
- 3 Globalization I: accumulation by dispossession 61
- 4 Globalization II: new economies of desire 83
- 5 Old Left, New Left 103
- 6 When was the nation? 135
- 7 India in the world 166
- Conclusion: a heterogeneous present 176.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [182]-208) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781842778159
- 1842778153
- 9781842778142
- 1842778145
- OCLC:
- 132681526
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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