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Maoism, democracy and globalisation : cross-currents in Indian politics
- Title
- Maoism, democracy and globalisation : cross-currents in Indian politics / Ajay Gudavarthy.
- Author
- Gudavarthy, Ajay
- Publication
- New Delhi, India : SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd, 2014.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 243 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Maoism, democracy and globalization are three distinct but inseparable currents marking Indian politics today. They are distinct in terms of their goals, direction, and modalities of forging social, political, economic and even cultural change, while mutually influencing each other in the emergent political process. This book is an attempt to precisely map processes that are internal to each of these currents while exploring and identifying the moments of mutual influence, are.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Maoism; 1 -- Democracy against Maoism, Maoism against Itself; Democracy; 2 -- Middle Classes: Urban Activism and Anna Hazare's Soap Opera; 3 -- Backward Classes: Reservations, Recognition and the Republic; 4 -- Subaltern Classes: Governmentality, Resistance and 'Political Society'; Globalisation; 5 -- Politics of Global Human Rights in India; 6 -- Globalisation and Regionalisation: Mapping the New Continental Drift; Epilogue: India's Violent Democracy: Past and Future; References; Index; About the Author.
- ISBN
- 9788132118473 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 8132118472 (hardback : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2014017762
- OCLC
- ocn879553042
- 879553042
- SCSB-5819672
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries