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Author: Nandita Gandhi Publisher: Zubaan ISBN: 9390514290 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 167
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For three years in the early seventies women, young and old, homeworkers and factory workers, from different castes and classes, came together in Bombay to wage a sustained battle against rising prices. The Anti-Price Rise Movement (APRM) took even the leaders of socialist and communist parties—of which many of the women were a part—by surprise. People hailed the movement as ‘the new women’s movement’, the media gave the protesting women and their chose symbols—the rolling pin, the kerosene tin, the kitchen ladle—wide coverage. Spearheading the action, the Mahangai Pratikar Samyukt Mahila Samiti, a joint front of women from different political groups, led raids on traders, inspected ration shops, fought to have hoarded goods released. In 1975, the declaration of a State of Emergency brought this enormously vibrant movement to an abrupt halt. This book traces the nature of women’s political participation and militancy in the APRM, and relates it to their everyday experiences within the context of the broader political scene in India in the 1970s. It documents the movement and examines its genesis, its forms of protest, its structure and methods of organisation and raises key issues about our understanding of particular movements and their relevance to political practice.
Author: Nandita Gandhi Publisher: Zubaan ISBN: 9390514290 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 167
Book Description
For three years in the early seventies women, young and old, homeworkers and factory workers, from different castes and classes, came together in Bombay to wage a sustained battle against rising prices. The Anti-Price Rise Movement (APRM) took even the leaders of socialist and communist parties—of which many of the women were a part—by surprise. People hailed the movement as ‘the new women’s movement’, the media gave the protesting women and their chose symbols—the rolling pin, the kerosene tin, the kitchen ladle—wide coverage. Spearheading the action, the Mahangai Pratikar Samyukt Mahila Samiti, a joint front of women from different political groups, led raids on traders, inspected ration shops, fought to have hoarded goods released. In 1975, the declaration of a State of Emergency brought this enormously vibrant movement to an abrupt halt. This book traces the nature of women’s political participation and militancy in the APRM, and relates it to their everyday experiences within the context of the broader political scene in India in the 1970s. It documents the movement and examines its genesis, its forms of protest, its structure and methods of organisation and raises key issues about our understanding of particular movements and their relevance to political practice.
Author: Wendy Singer Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317876199 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 250
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Independent India is an exploration of India’s national history from independence in 1947 to the end of the twentieth century. Wendy Singer charts the rapid development of this emerging world power by following a series of different narratives crucial to the history of post-independence India: national integrations, the ongoing development of arts and culture, social movements, and political change. In telling the broader history of political movements and cultural transformations from different perspectives, this book provides key examples that demonstrate the experiences of women and men from the many classes and cultures that comprise modern India. In keeping with the series as a whole, this text also provides a range of primary source documents both to illuminate that history and to show the rich resources and unique challenges involved in writing contemporary history. Key features include: Thematic chapters within a chronological structure, incorporating different approaches to the study of history A varied range of primary sources, demonstrating the diversity of material available In-depth social, cultural and political analysis, including the study of regional identities, film, literature, gender, politics and economic change Investigating India’s recent national history from a range of angles, this new Seminar Studies volume is an essential introduction for anyone who wishes to learn more about the important place that India, the world’s largest democracy, has in our global age. .
Author: Vijay Prashad Publisher: The New Press ISBN: 1620977656 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 387
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The landmark alternative history of the Cold War from the perspective of the Global South, reissued in paperback with a new introduction by the author In this award-winning investigation into the overlooked history of the Third World—with a new preface by the author for its fifteenth anniversary—internationally renowned historian Vijay Prashad conjures what Publishers Weekly calls “a vital assertion of an alternative future.” The Darker Nations, praised by critics as a welcome antidote to apologists for empire, has defined for a generation of scholars, activists, and dreamers what it is to imagine a more just international order and continues to offer lessons for the radical political projects of today. With the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the rise of India and China on the global scene, this paradigm-shifting book of groundbreaking scholarship helps us envision the future of the Global South by restoring to memory the vibrant though flawed idea of the Third World whose demise, Prashad ultimately argues, has produced an impoverished and asymmetrical international political arena. No other book on the Third World—as a utopian idea and a global movement—can speak so effectively and engagingly to our troubled times.
Author: Leslie J Calman Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000010554 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 235
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Analyzing Indian women's groups as one sector of a complex of new grass-roots, non-party political movements, Dr. Caiman considers why and how a women's movement evolved in India when it did. She describes the nature, origins, and meanings of the movement for Indian women and discusses the movement's significance for Indian politics in general as w
Author: Susan Perry Publisher: Zed Books ISBN: 9781856498470 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 308
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Focusing on seven crucial debates in the field of gender and development, this compilation shows why development policy must respond to cultural differences and illustrates the rewards of doing so.
Author: Nandini Deo Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317530667 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 193
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Religious nationalists and women’s activists have transformed India over the past century. They debated the idea of India under colonial rule, shaped the constitutional structure of Indian democracy, and questioned the legitimacy of the postcolonial consensus, as they politicized one dimension of identity. Using a historical comparative approach, the book argues that external events, activist agency in strategizing, and the political economy of transnational networks explain the relative success and failure of Hindu nationalism and the Indian women’s movement rather than the ideological claims each movement makes. By focusing on how particular activist strategies lead to increased levels of public support, it shows how it is these strategies rather than the ideologies of Hindutva and feminism that mobilize people. Both of these social movements have had decades of great power and influence, and decades of relative irrelevance, and both challenge postcolonial India’s secular settlement – its division of public and private. The book goes on to highlight new insights into the inner dynamics of each movement by showing how the same strategies - grassroots education, electoral mobilization, media management, donor cultivation - lead to similarly positive results. Bringing together the study of Hindu nationalism and the Indian women’s movement, the book will be of interest to students and scholars of South Asian Religion, Gender Studies, and South Asian Politics.
Author: Elisabeth Armstrong Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317911415 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 302
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This book describes the changing landscape of women’s politics for equality and liberation during the rise of neoliberalism in India. Between 1991 and 2006, the doctrine of liberalization guided Indian politics and economic policy. These neoliberal measures vastly reduced poverty alleviation schemes, price supports for poor farmers, and opened India’s economy to the unpredictability of global financial fluctuations. During this same period, the All India Democratic Women’s Association, which directly opposed the ascendance of neoliberal economics and policies, as well as the simultaneous rise of violent casteism and anti-Muslim communalism, grew from roughly three million members to over ten million. Beginning in the late 1980s, AIDWA turned its attention to women’s lives in rural India. Using a method that began with activist research, the organization developed a sectoral analysis of groups of women who were hardest hit in the new neoliberal order, including Muslim women, and Dalit (oppressed caste) women. AIDWA developed what leaders called inter-sectoral organizing, that centered the demands of the most vulnerable women into the heart of its campaigns and its ideology for social change. Through long-term ethnographic research, predominantly in the northern state of Haryana and the southern state of Tamil Nadu, this book shows how a socialist women’s organization built its oppositional strength by organizing the women most marginalized by neoliberal policies and economics.
Author: Pradeep K. Chhibber Publisher: University of Michigan Press ISBN: 0472023969 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 304
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India's party system has undergone a profound transformation over the last decade. The Congress Party, a catch-all party that brought independence in 1947 and governed India for much of the period since then, no longer dominates the electoral scene. Political parties which draw support from particular caste and religious groups are now more powerful than ever before. Democracy Without Associations explains why religious and caste-based political parties come to dominate the electoral landscape in 1990s India and why catch-all parties have declined. Arguing that political parties and state policy can make some social divisions more salient than others and also determine how these divisions affect the political system, the author offers an explanation for the relationship between electoral competition and the politicization of social differences in India. He notes that the relationship between social cleavages and the party system is not axiomatic and that political parties can influence the links they have to social cleavages. The argument developed for India is also used to account for emergence of class-based parties in Spain and the electoral success of a religious party in Algeria. Democracy Without Associations will interest scholars and students of Indian politics, and party politics, as well as those interested in the impact of social divisions on the political system. Pradeep K. Chhibber is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Associate Director, Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan.
Author: Nandita Gandhi
Author: Nandita Gandhi
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Author: Wendy Singer
Author: Vijay Prashad
Author: Leslie J Calman
Author: Susan Perry
Author: Nandini Deo
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Author: Elisabeth Armstrong
Author: Pradeep K. Chhibber