Social movements in India : poverty, power, and politics / edited by Raka Ray and Mary Fainsod Katzenstein.

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.