Power and contestation : India since 1989 / Nivedita Menon and Aditya Nigam.

By:

Menon, Nivedita

Contributor(s):

Nigam, Aditya

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Global history of the presentPublication details: Orient Longman Private, Himayatnagar, Hyderabad : 2007.Description: xii, 219 p. : map ; 23 cmISBN:

9788125035091 (pbk.)
8125035095 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

954.052 MEN 23 000689

Contents:

Contents : Acknowledgments Abbreviations India at a glance Introduction: A Genealogy of the 1990s 1. The recalcitrance of caste 2. Politics of Hindutva and the minorities 3. Globalization I: accumulation by dispossession 4. Globalization II: new economies of desire 5. Old Left, New Left 6. When was the nation? 7. India in the world Conclusion: a heterogeneous present Notes Bibliography Index

Summary: The year 1989 marks the unravelling of India's "Nehruvian Consensus" of a modern, secular nation with a self-reliant economy. Caste and religion have come to play major roles in national politics. Global economic integration has led to conflict between the state and dispossessed people, but processes of globalization have also enabled new spaces for political assertion, such as around sexuality. Older challenges to the state continue in Kashmir and the North-East, while Maoist insurgency has deepened its bases. In a world of American Empire, India as a nuclear power has abandoned non-alignment, a shift that is contested by voices within. Power and Contestation shows that the turbulence and turmoil of this period are signs of India's continued vibrancy and democracy. The book is an ideal introduction to the complex internal histories and external power relations of a major global player in the new century.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-208) and index.

Contents :
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
India at a glance
Introduction: A Genealogy of the 1990s
1. The recalcitrance of caste
2. Politics of Hindutva and the minorities
3. Globalization I: accumulation by dispossession
4. Globalization II: new economies of desire
5. Old Left, New Left
6. When was the nation?
7. India in the world
Conclusion: a heterogeneous present
Notes
Bibliography
Index

The year 1989 marks the unravelling of India's "Nehruvian Consensus" of a modern, secular nation with a self-reliant economy.
Caste and religion have come to play major roles in national politics. Global economic integration has led to conflict between the state and dispossessed people, but processes of globalization have also enabled new spaces for political assertion, such as around sexuality. Older challenges to the state continue in Kashmir and the North-East, while Maoist insurgency has deepened its bases. In a world of American Empire, India as a nuclear power has abandoned non-alignment, a shift that is contested by voices within.
Power and Contestation shows that the turbulence and turmoil of this period are signs of India's continued vibrancy and democracy. The book is an ideal introduction to the complex internal histories and external power relations of a major global player in the new century.

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