The Politics Of The Poor In Contemporary India
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| Author | : Indrajit Roy |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 546 |
| Release | : 2018-02-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1316674347 |
This book challenges the ongoing scholarly debates on poor people's negotiations with democracy. It demonstrates the varied ways in which the poor engage with their elected representatives, political mediators and dominant classes in order to advance their claims. Roy explains the variations by directing attention to the dynamic interaction between the opportunity structures available to the poor and the social relations of power in which they are embedded. He analyses these intersections as 'political spaces' which both enable and constrain popular practices. Through examination of the 'political spaces' available to the poor in four different localities, Roy outlines a new analytic framework to understanding poor people's politics. Based on these observations, the book makes a strong case for an approach to democracy that appreciates people's ambivalences towards democracy. Roy urges researchers of democracy to step beyond either enthusiastic narratives - the inevitability of democracy or apocalyptic accounts of democracy's impending death.
| Author | : Nandini Gooptu |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 491 |
| Release | : 2001-07-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0521443660 |
Nandini Gooptu's magisterial 2001 history of the labouring poor in India represents a tour-de-force.
| Author | : Narayan Lakshman |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2011-03-15 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0199088357 |
Why has there not been more progress with reducing poverty in India? Patrons of the Poor offers a rich and contemporary account of politics and policymaking in India, as it seeks to provide an answer to this vital question. Despite unprecedented economic growth, the last twenty years have witnessed a growing divergence across Indian states in terms of their poverty alleviation records. In that context, and given that state governments are responsible for a wide range of redistributive policies, this book analyses trends in state politics and policymaking. Based on the analysis, it explains why some Indian states have managed to reduce poverty more effectively than others. Using detailed case studies from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, the author examines the policymaking processes and political histories of these states. He argues that patterns of caste dominance combined with the degree of competition in populist policies can significantly explain whether states adopt pro-poor policies or not. Lakshman's analysis combines a deep reading of state-specific political and sociological data with a range of interviews with top political leaders, senior bureaucrats, and academics to corroborate his core argument.
| Author | : Raju J. Das |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 672 |
| Release | : 2020-03-02 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9004415564 |
In this book, Das deploys class theory to decipher India’s economic and political situation. It deals with the specificities of India’s capitalism and neoliberalism, and their economic consequences. It critically examines lower-class struggles led by the Left, and the fascistic politics of the Right.
| Author | : Kohli |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 1987-01-22 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521320085 |
This analysis of the role of government in eradicating India's rural poverty raises a whole series of crucial contemporary issues relating to the state, its degree of autonomy in the developing world and the problems of effecting genuine redistributive reform. The particular importance of the book is that it focuses attention on the nature of ruling political parties as an important factor influencing the success or failure of redistributive and welfare politics in a democratic capitalist setting. Dr Kohli compares in detail three state-level Indian governments of the late seventies: Communist-ruled West Bengal, Karnataka under the Congress Party, and Uttar Pradesh under the Janata Party. Comparing these in terms of their success in redistributing agricultural land and creating employment for the rural poor, the author argues cogently that well-organised, left-of-centre parties in government - like that in West Bengal - are the most effective in implementing reform.
| Author | : Indrajit Roy |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 545 |
| Release | : 2018-02 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1107117186 |
Based on diverse sorts of data and fieldwork in India, this book analyses how the poor participate in a democracy.
| Author | : Nandini Gooptu |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 464 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Electronic books |
| ISBN | : 9781139159722 |
Nandini Gooptu's history of the Indian urban poor represents a tour-de-force. It focuses on themes ranging from the social construction of poverty, religious and caste identities and nationalist and labour politics. In this way, the book contributes to current debates on the nature of subaltern politics and consciousness.
| Author | : Raju J Das |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 137 |
| Release | : 2021-07-07 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1000412970 |
Critical of the economic and political power relations in contemporary India, this book is written from the vantagepoint of the working masses whose basic economic and democratic rights remain unmet. Written for a broader audience beyond the academic community, the essays that make up the book provide short critical commentaries on different aspects of Indian society undergoing significant changes in recent times. The essays are conceptually driven and include empirical details, but they generally avoid the usual perils of academicism, by expressing complicated ideas in a relatively simple language and by drawing out their practical implications. This book is co-published with Aakar Books, New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the print versions of this book in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
| Author | : Sanjeev Routray |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2022-07-12 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1503632148 |
In the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.5 million poor people. Resettlement and welfare services are available—but exclusively so, as the city deems much of the population ineligible for civic benefits. The Right to Be Counted examines how Delhi's urban poor, in an effort to gain visibility from the local state, incrementally stake their claims to a house and life in the city. Contributing to debates about the contradictions of state governmentality and the citizenship projects of the poor in Delhi, this book explores social suffering, logistics, and the logic of political mobilizations that emanate from processes of displacement and resettlement. Sanjeev Routray draws upon fieldwork conducted in various low-income neighborhoods throughout the 2010s to describe the process of claims-making as an attempt by the political community of the poor to assert its existence and numerical strength, and demonstrates how this struggle to be counted constitutes the systematic, protracted, and incremental political process by which the poor claim their substantive entitlements and become entrenched in the city. Analyzing various social, political, and economic relationships, as well as kinship networks and solidarity linkages across the political and social spectrum, this book traces the ways the poor work to gain a foothold in Delhi and establish agency for themselves.
| Author | : Stuart Corbridge |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 402 |
| Release | : 2013-04-03 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0745676642 |
Twenty years ago India was still generally thought of as an archetypal developing country, home to the largest number of poor people of any country in the world, and beset by problems of low economic growth, casteism and violent religious conflict. Now India is being feted as an economic power-house which might well become the second largest economy in the world before the middle of this century. Its democratic traditions, moreover, remain broadly intact. How and why has this historic transformation come about? And what are its implications for the people of India, for Indian society and politics? These are the big questions addressed in this book by three scholars who have lived and researched in different parts of India during the period of this great transformation. Each of the 13 chapters seeks to answer a particular question: When and why did India take off? How did a weak state promote audacious reform? Is government in India becoming more responsive (and to whom)? Does India have a civil society? Does caste still matter? Why is India threatened by a Maoist insurgency? In addressing these and other pressing questions, the authors take full account of vibrant new scholarship that has emerged over the past decade or so, both from Indian writers and India specialists, and from social scientists who have studied India in a comparative context. India Today is a comprehensive and compelling text for students of South Asia, political economy, development and comparative politics as well as anyone interested in the future of the world's largest democracy.
