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Days and Nights in the Heartland of Rebellion

Author : Gautam Navlakha
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184756542
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Days and Nights in the Heartland of Rebellion written by Gautam Navlakha and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A report from the epicenter of the Naxalite war In its war against the Maoists, it is the Indian state that usually gets to tell its side of story. But official explanations are not meant to convey truth. Most often they attempt to cover up the reality and obscure it. The claim that only one warring side has the right to propagate its views whereas the other does not because they are projected as ‘enemy’ is questionable when we know there are two sides to any conflict and where both sides comprise our own people. In this situation of internal war, not satisfied with the knowledge offered by books and documents, Gautam Navlakha went into the heart of Bastar to get to know the Maoists first hand. This book is an account of the fortnight he spent in the guerilla zone where the Maoists run their people’s government, the Jantana Sarkar. His enquiry unflinching and his perspective critical but partisan, Navlakha succeeds in the difficult task of making the demonized human, laying bare the heartland of rebellion.

Communism in India

Author : Bidyut Chakrabarty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019997490X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Communism in India written by Bidyut Chakrabarty and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Communism in India, Bidyut Chakrabarty-an expert on contemporary Indian political economy and social movements-presents a sweeping analysis of the changing nature of communist ideology over the past century in India. The history and development of India's left movements are unique in that the country is home to two coexisting strands of modern communism. The first of these is the parliamentary Communist Party of India, which constituted the first democratically-elected Marxist government in the country. The parliamentary left subscribes to a social-democratic philosophy, turning to the traditional democratic institutions of governance in their quest to fulfill the Marxist-Leninist goal of establishing a classless society. The second, oppositional, strand is the revolutionary Maoist movement. This branch rejects parliamentary democracy as a means to altering class-relations, as they see the government as an elite organization dedicated to the status quo and age-old system of class exploitation. Drawing on ethnographic field work conducted in Orissa, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, Chakrabarty provides a contextual account of the rise, consolidation, and decline of these two types of left radicalism. He looks at how it is that left ideology has coexisted with free-market-oriented economic policies, as well as the contexts in which more militant strands have taken root, particularly among the young in poorer districts.

The Age of Aspiration

Author : Dilip Hiro
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620971305
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Aspiration written by Dilip Hiro and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dilip Hiro's Inside India Today (Routledge, 2014; orig. 1976), banned by Indira Gandhi's government, was acclaimed by The Guardian as simply 'the best book on India'. Now Hiro returns to his native country to chronicle the impact of the dramatic economic liberalisation that began in 1991, which ushered India into the era of globalisation. Hiro describes how India has been reengineered not only in its economy but also in its politics and cultural mores. A masterful panorama, The Age of Aspiration covers the whole social spectrum of Indians at home and abroad.

Transforming India

Author : Sumantra Bose
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674728203
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Transforming India written by Sumantra Bose and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nation of 1.25 billion people composed of numerous ethnic, linguistic, religious, and caste communities, India is the world’s most diverse democracy. Drawing on his extensive fieldwork and experience of Indian politics, Sumantra Bose tells the story of democracy’s evolution in India since the 1950s—and describes the many challenges it faces in the early twenty-first century. Over the past two decades, India has changed from a country dominated by a single nationwide party into a robust multiparty and federal union, as regional parties and leaders have risen and flourished in many of India’s twenty-eight states. The regionalization of the nation’s political landscape has decentralized power, given communities a distinct voice, and deepened India’s democracy, Bose finds, but the new era has also brought fresh dilemmas. The dynamism of India’s democracy derives from the active participation of the people—the demos. But as Bose makes clear, its transformation into a polity of, by, and for the people depends on tackling great problems of poverty, inequality, and oppression. This tension helps explain why Maoist revolutionaries wage war on the republic, and why people in the Kashmir Valley feel they are not full citizens. As India dramatically emerges on the global stage, Transforming India: Challenges to the World’s Largest Democracy provides invaluable analysis of its complexity and distinctiveness.

The Maoist Movement in India

Author : Santosh Paul
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000059235
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maoist Movement in India written by Santosh Paul and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the raging debate on one of the most brutal political realities that India has confronted in recent years: the rising conflict between Maoist insurgent groups and the Indian State. With some of the finest writings on the subject, it brings together articles and interviews from leading authors, politicians, journalists, intellectuals, filmmakers and legal practitioners. The volume straddles between two apparently irreconcilable perspectives: (a) the view that the Maoist movement threatens the very core of democratic foundations, and should be perceived as a violent law & order situation justifying severe retaliatory measures, and (b) the counterview where Maoists are fiercely defended as revolutionaries and comrades of resistance, and the movement seen as the last-ditch struggle by those who have been abandoned over years by the State in its developmental process. The essays probe whether armed struggle is avoidable, whether the desperate desire for peace has simply been overtaken by political ideologies, and whether an inclusive developmental State policy may help restore faith in its democratic ethos. The book will be of interest to academics and students of politics, sociology, social anthropology and law. It will also be extremely useful to social workers, policymakers, politicians, bureaucrats, as well as the general reader.

The Palgrave Handbook of Anti-Communist Persecutions

Author : Christian Gerlach
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030549631
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Anti-Communist Persecutions written by Christian Gerlach and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook explores anti-communism as an overarching phenomenon of twentieth-century global history, showing how anti-communist policies and practices transformed societies around the world. It advances research on anti-communism by looking beyond ideologies and propaganda to uncover how these ideas were put into practice. Case studies examine the role of states and non-state actors in anti-communist persecutions, and cover a range of topics, including social crises, capitalist accumulation and dispossession, political clientelism and warfare. Through its comparative perspective, the handbook reveals striking similarities between different cases from various world regions and highlights the numerous long-term consequences of anti-communism that exceeded by far the struggle against communism in a narrow sense. Contributing to the growing body of work on the social history of mass violence, this volume is an essential resource for students and scholars interested to understand how twentieth-century anti-communist persecutions have shaped societies around the world today. Chapter 7 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Nightmarch

Author : Alpa Shah
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022659033X
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Nightmarch written by Alpa Shah and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize Shortlisted for the New India Foundation Book Prize Anthropologist Alpa Shah found herself in an active platoon of Naxalites—one of the longest-running guerrilla insurgencies in the world. The only woman, and the only person without a weapon, she walked alongside the militants for seven nights across 150 miles of dense, hilly forests in eastern India. Nightmarch is the riveting story of Shah's journey, grounded in her years of living with India’s tribal people, an eye-opening exploration of the movement’s history and future and a powerful contemplation of how disadvantaged people fight back against unjust systems in today’s world. The Naxalites have fought for a communist society for the past fifty years, caught in a conflict that has so far claimed at least forty thousand lives. Yet surprisingly little is known about these fighters in the West. Framed by the Indian state as a deadly terrorist group, the movement is actually made up of Marxist ideologues and lower-caste and tribal combatants, all of whom seek to overthrow a system that has abused them for decades. In Nightmarch, Shah shares some of their gritty untold stories: here we meet a high-caste leader who spent almost thirty years underground, a young Adivasi foot soldier, and an Adivasi youth who defected. Speaking with them and living for years with villagers in guerrilla strongholds, Shah has sought to understand why some of India’s poor have shunned the world’s largest democracy and taken up arms to fight for a fairer society—and asks whether they might be undermining their own aims. By shining a light on this largely ignored corner of the world, Shah raises important questions about the uncaring advance of capitalism and offers a compelling reflection on dispossession and conflict at the heart of contemporary India.

Left Radicalism in India

Author : Bidyut Chakrabarty
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317668057
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Left Radicalism in India written by Bidyut Chakrabarty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Left radicalism in India was rooted in the nationalist movement and was set in motion in the 1920s with the formation of the communist party. The communist movement manifested itself differently in each phase of India’s political history and Communism continues to remain a meaningful alternative ideological discourse in India. This book examines left politics in India focusing on its rise, consolidation and relative decline in the present century. Left radicalism in India is a distinct ideological phenomenon which is articulated in two complementary ways: while the parliamentary left remains social democratic in character, its bête noire, the left wing extremists, continue to uphold the classical Marxist, Leninist and Maoist notion of violent revolution. By concentrating on the nature and also activities of these two versions of left radicalism, this book is a thorough study of the phenomenon. The author analyses the states of Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura and presents a variety of case studies of communist movements. He argues that the political power of the left parties depends on the degree to which they have built organizational strength, political hegemony and a broad social base through legal and extra-parliamentary struggles. An in-depth study of socio-economic circumstances that remain critical in conceptualizing radical extremism, Left Radicalism in India will be of interest to those studying Indian Politics, South Asian History, Development Studies and Global Politics.

The Underbelly of the Indian Boom

Author : Stuart Corbridge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317610458
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book The Underbelly of the Indian Boom written by Stuart Corbridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As India emerges as a major economic power, producing dollar billionaires rising at the rate of 17 per year, more than 800 million Indians eke out a living on less than two dollars a day. This book takes the reader to the underbelly of the Indian boom, an India that is not shining but is struggling to survive. From the Indo-Soviet Bhilai Steel Plant in Chhattisgarh, where an aristocracy of labour is increasingly being replaced by a more vulnerable contract labour force, we move to the banks of the Hoogly River. Here, Norwegian shipping companies exploit a precarious labour force that is as vulnerable to the vagaries of global finance and its crisis as the elderly, especially women and wage-workers, who live in the slums of Chennai. Also in Tamil Nadu, but this time in Tiruppur, we find that the garment and textile industries boom has nurtured new regimes of debt bondage among industrial workers. Though public concern about the vulnerability in which poor people find themselves has resulted in new nation-wide schemes framed in the language of rights, we find in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh that the practical workings of these schemes are dependent on the regional political systems in which they are enmeshed. We end in the belly of the Maoist-inspired Naxalite insurgency, denounced by the Indian government as the country’s greatest security challenge, where the poor are being mobilised to rise against the injustices of the Indian state. This book was originally published as a special issue of Economy and Society.

Key Concepts in Modern Indian Studies

Author : Rachel Dwyer
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479848697
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Key Concepts in Modern Indian Studies written by Rachel Dwyer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Indian studies have recently become a site for new, creative, and thought-provoking debates extending over a broad canvas of crucial issues. As a result of socio-political transformations, certain concepts—such as ahimsa, caste, darshan, and race—have taken on different meanings. Bringing together ideas, issues, and debates salient to modern Indian studies, this volume charts the social, cultural, political, and economic processes at work in the Indian subcontinent. Authored by internationally recognized experts, this volume comprises over one hundred individual entries on concepts central to their respective fields of specialization, highlighting crucial issues and debates in a lucid and concise manner. Each concept is accompanied by a critical analysis of its trajectory and a succinct discussion of its significance in the academic arena as well as in the public sphere. Enhancing the shared framework of understanding about the Indian subcontinent, Key Concepts in Modern Indian Studies will provide the reader with insights into vital debates about the region, underscoring the compelling issues emanating from colonialism and postcolonialism.

Adivasis and the State

Author : Alf Gunvald Nilsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108759017
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Adivasis and the State written by Alf Gunvald Nilsen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Adivasis and the State, Alf Gunvald Nilsen presents a major study of how subalternity is both constituted and contested through state-society relations in the Bhil heartland of western India. The book unravels the historical processes that subordinated Bhil Adivasi communities to the everyday tyranny of the state and investigates how social movements have mobilised to reclaim citizenship. In doing so, the book also reveals how collective action from below transform the meanings of governmental categories, legal frameworks, and universalising vocabularies of democracy. At the core of the book lies a concern with understanding the dialectics of power and resistance that give form and direction to the political economy of democracy and development in contemporary India. Towards this end, Adivasis and the State contributes a sustained and nuanced Gramscian analysis of hegemony in order to interrogate the possibilities and limits of subaltern political engagement with state structures.

Insurgent Imaginations

Author : Auritro Majumder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108477577
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Insurgent Imaginations written by Auritro Majumder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates how internationalist writers marginalized the West and placed the non-Western regions in a new center.

India’s Scheduled Areas

Author : Varsha Bhagat-Ganguly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000227979
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book India’s Scheduled Areas written by Varsha Bhagat-Ganguly and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the complexities of governance, law, and politics in India’s Scheduled Areas. The Scheduled Areas (SAs) are those parts of the country which have been identified by the Fifth and Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India and are inhabited predominantly by tribal communities or Scheduled Tribes. SAs are often identified by their geographical isolation, primitive economies, and relatively egalitarian and closely knit society. Irrespective of the constitutional provision for governance and a mandate of devolution of power in terms of funds, functions and functionaries, the backwardness of these areas have remained a challenge. This volume attempts to explore the reasons behind the disregard for legal and institutional mechanism designed for the SAs. It examines the role of the state in the neoliberal era on fund allocation and utilisation, the governance of land and forest resources, and the ineffectiveness of the existing administrative structures and processes. It also looks into the interpretations of law by the judiciary while dealing with community rights vis-à-vis the state’s prerogative of bringing development to the regions, and how development concerns are addressed in the name of ‘good governance’ by various stakeholders. Comprehensive and topical, this volume will be useful for scholars and researchers of political studies, development studies, developmental economics, sociology and social anthropology, and for policy makers.

Rebel Governance in Civil War

Author : Ana Arjona
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107102227
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Rebel Governance in Civil War written by Ana Arjona and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of this book is how rebels govern civilians during civil war. It takes a worldwide comparative approach. Its theoretical analyses involve issues in the characteristics, emergence, evolution, decline, and consequences of rebel governance. Its empirical accounts discuss insurgent groups around the globe, including Latin American, African, Asian, and European cases.

Current Affairs Refresher 2020

Author : Arihant Experts
Publisher : Arihant Publications India limited
ISBN 13 : 9325290677
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Current Affairs Refresher 2020 written by Arihant Experts and published by Arihant Publications India limited. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1.Current Affairs Refresher 2020 is a important events from January 2020 to August 2020. 2.Hot Shots: covers all the latest events occurred in the country 3.Current Affairs: provides the latest information about the National and International happenings, Economy, Banking, Science & Technology, Space etc 4.More than 500 Current Shooters are given for quick coverage of the events 5.Who’s Who is given to provide the basic knowledge about the countries, states and appointed officials, 6.Highly useful for IBPS & SBI (PO, Clerk), NDA, CDS, SSC (CGL, 10+2, MTS), Railways, Delhi Police Constable, OPSE, BPSE, other State Level exams. Its been 8 months and this year has been on a wild roller coaster ride. Year 2020 has witnessed some of the major historic events - including California Forest Fire, Assam Floods, introduction of New Education Policy, Retirement of sports persons and demise of many great personalities. These events have affected our daily lives and have become even more important for the students as Current Affairs and awareness is a big part of their school curriculum and various competitive examinations. “Current Affairs Refresher 2020” is a new edition that is designed to give complete coverage of all important events from January 2020 to August 2020 in a concise manner. Inside the Pages you will find Hot Shot: which covers all the latest hot topics that are making buzz, Current Affairs: that provides the latest information about the National and International happenings, Economy, Banking, Science & Technology, Space etc. This magazine also includes more than 500 current shooters and lastly Who’s Who, which tells about Country name, Capital, Currency, Official Languages and many more who have been currently appointed. It is highly useful for IBPS & SBI (PO, Clerk), NDA, CDS, SSC (CGL, 10+2, MTS), Railways, Delhi Police Constable, OPSE, BPSE, other State Level exams. TABLE OF CONTENT Hot shot, Current Affairs, 500+ Shooters, Who’s Who.

The Naxal Threat

Author : V R Raghavan
Publisher : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9381411948
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book The Naxal Threat written by V R Raghavan and published by Vij Books India Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naxalism or Left Wing extremism is a major internal security threat faced by India. Though Naxalism predates independence, it was limited to small pockets of areas but now has spread to underdeveloped areas from Bihar to Tamil Nadu. It is a well organized underground movement with an ideological base in rural areas spread over in the interior of many states. The Naxal movement is a complex socio- politico- economic phenomenon. Their violent methods against the government officials, law and order agencies and business community are causes, needing immediate and serious attention. This volume is a compilation of five papers presented at a workshop organized by CSA in August 2010.

Challenges of Globalization and Prospects for an Inter-civilizational World Order

Author : Ino Rossi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030440583
Total Pages : 1104 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Challenges of Globalization and Prospects for an Inter-civilizational World Order written by Ino Rossi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a must-read volume on globalization in which some of the foremost scholars in the field discuss the latest issues. Truly providing a global perspective, it includes authorship and discussions from the Global North and South, and covers the major facets of globalization: cultural, economic, ecological and political. It discusses the historical developments in governance preceding globalization, the diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to globalization, and analyzes underdevelopment, anti-globalization movements, global poverty, global inequality, and the debates on international trade versus protectionism. Finally, the volume looks to the future and provides prospects for inter-civilizational understanding, rapprochement, and global cooperation. This will be of great interest to academics and students of sociology, social anthropology, political science and international relations, economics, social policy, social history, as well as to policy makers.