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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Samāddāra, Raṇabīra (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications India Pvt. Ltd, 2013
Temas:
1900-2099
Labor policy > India > West Bengal > History.
Labor unions > India > West Bengal > History.
Travail > Politique gouvernementale > Inde > Bengale-Occidental > Histoire.
Syndicats > Inde > Bengale-Occidental > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Labor policy
Labor unions
Politics and government
Social conditions
West Bengal (India) > Social conditions > 20th century.
West Bengal (India) > Social conditions > 21st century.
West Bengal (India) > Politics and government > 20th century.
West Bengal (India) > Politics and government > 21st century.
India > West Bengal
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A 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
  • 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?
  • 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
  • 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
  • Eternal Bengal
  • "It does not die" : urban protest in Calcutta, 1987/2007

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