Maoism, Democracy and Globalisation: Cross-currents in Indian Politics

Maoism, democracy and globalization are three distinct but inseparable currents marking indian politics today they are distinct in terms of their goals, direction and modalities of forging social, political, economic and even cultural change, while mutually influencing each other in the emergent political process this book is an attempt to precisely map processes that are internal to each of these currents while exploring and identifying the moments of mutual influence, areas of conflict and mutually exclusive pulls they bring to the contemporary politics in india table of contents preface and acknowledgements introduction: india disconnected: joining the dots i: maoism democracy against maoism, maoism against itself ii: democracy middle classes: urban activism and anna hazares soap opera backward classes: reservations, recognition and the republic subaltern classes: governmentality, resistance and political society iii: globalization politics of global human rights in india globalization and regionalization: mapping the new continental drift epilogue: indias violent democracy: past and future references index