Social Movements in India: Poverty, Power, and Politics - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0742538435 ISBN 13 : 9780742538436

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005

Synopsis

Social Movements in India Focusing on poverty and class in its analysis of social movements, this work shows how social movements have had to change because poverty reduction did not serve its role as a political template. It includes chapters on gender, lower castes, environment, the Hindu Right, Kerala, labor, farmers, and biotechnology. Full description

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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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0742538435
• ISBN 13: 9780742538436
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 320