Social movements in India :

Social movements in India : poverty, power, and politics / edited by Raka Ray and Mary Fainsod Katzenstein. - Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, c2005. - vii, 311 p. ; 24 cm. - Asia/Pacific/perspectives .

Text results from the workshop Social movements and poverty in India held at the University of California at Berkeley in April 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-297) and index.

Introduction : in the beginning, there was the Nehruvian state / Raka Ray and Mary Fainsod Katzenstein -- From class compromise to class accommodation : labor`s incorporation into the Indian political economy / Vivek Chibber -- Problems of social power and the discourses of the Hindu right / Tanika Sarkar -- Reinventing public power in the age of globalization : decentralization and the transformation of movement politics in Kerala / Patrick Heller -- Feminism, poverty, and the emergent social order / Mary E. John -- Who are the country`s poor? : social movement politics and Dalit poverty / Gopal Guru and Anuradha Chakravarty -- Red in tooth and claw? : looking for class in struggles over nature / Amita Baviskar -- Farmer`s movements and the debate on poverty and economic reforms in India / Gail Omvedt -- Miracle seeds, suicide seeds, and the poor : GMOs, NGOs, farmers, and the state / Ronald J. Herring -- Strong states, strong NGOs / Neema Kudva.

0742538427 (cloth : alk. paper) 0742538435 (pbk. : alk. paper)


Social movements--India.
Poverty--India.
Poor--Government policy--India.


India--Politics and government--1947-

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