Social Movements in India Poverty, Power, and Politics

by Ray, Raka; Katzenstein, Mary Fainsod

• ISBN13: 9780742538436
• ISBN10: 0742538435
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-25
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: In the Beginning, There Was the Nehruvian State	1	(31)
Raka Ray
Mary Fainsod Katzenstein
From Class Compromise to Class Accommodation: Labor's Incorporation into the Indian Political Economy	32	(30)
Vivek Chibber
Problems of Social Power and the Discourses of the Hindu Right	62	(17)
Tanika Sarkar
Reinventing Public Power in the Age of Globalization: Decentralization and the Transformation of Movement Politics in Kerala	79	(28)
Patrick Heller
Feminism, Poverty, and the Emergent Social Order	107	(28)
Mary E. John
Who Are The Country's Poor? Social Movement Politics and Dalit Poverty	135	(26)
Gopal Guru
Anuradha Chakravarty
Red in Tooth and Claw? Looking for Class in Struggles over Nature	161	(18)
Amita Baviskar
Farmer's Movements and the Debate on Poverty and Economic Reforms in India	179	(24)
Gail Omvedt
Miracle Seeds, Suicide Seeds, and the Poor: GMOs, NGOs, Farmers and the State	203	(30)
Ronald J. Herring
Strong States, Strong NGOs	233	(34)
Neema Kudva
Archival Abbreviations	267	(2)
Bibliography	269	(30)
Index	299	(10)
About the Contributors	309