Passive revolution in West Bengal 1977/2011
In the wake of the enormous interest across the globe in the fall of the Left Front in West Bengal, this book describes the Left era as one of passive revolution: limited reforms and changes, big compromises, corruption of the commissars and the failure of the Left in assessing popular discontent an...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks :
SAGE Publications India Pvt. Ltd
2013.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b3075446x*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: writing the history of contemporary Bengal
- Capital, labour and politics
- Decade of strike by capital
- A dying metropolis
- Does the left front favour the urban elite?
- Environment and employment : will the trade unions and greens join hands?
- The tannery workers of Tangra
- Lessons of Ayodhya : has the left lost its vision?
- The new right and the new left
- Party, mass organizations, and mass movements
- More on party and mass organization
- Votes and populism
- New issues, new perspectives
- Who is afraid of the migrants in Bengal?
- A library and an institution
- Hunger and the politics of life
- Rajarhat : an urban dystopia
- Dialogue and growth
- All die, but all do not die equally
- Chronicles of the ranks
- The fast emerging power vacuum
- Civil society and the politics of a society
- Is Bengal's restless spirit in decline?
- Contentious politics
- Claim making in the age of bio-politics
- That was revolt, this is civil war
- Elections in the time of a civil war
- Populism and peace
- Different ways of truth telling
- The idea of a front
- Elections and expanding our representative system
- Spring time in Bengal
- Their civil society, our civil society
- Stocktaking midway through the war
- Messy change
- Transitional challenges
- Governing the multitude/i
- Governing the multitude
- How to prevent a telengana type situation in West Bengal
- The challenge of building a non-corporate path of development
- A suggestion on Bengal's economic woes
- A square leading to many unknown destinations
- Early but inevitable errors in judgement
- A violent history of peace
- Political change is never for utopia
- Knight riders in Kolkata
- Perennial themes
- Eternal Bengal
- "It does not die" : urban protest in Calcutta, 1987/2007
- Postscript
- The epoch of passive revolution
- Index
- About the author.
