Passive Revolution in West Bengal 1977–2011

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Cover Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Writing the History of Contemporary Bengal Section One: Capital, Labour and Politics 1 - A Decade of Strike by Capital 2 - A Dying Metropolis 3 - Does the Left Front Favour the Urban Elite 4 - Environment and Employment: Will the Trade Unions and Greens Join Hands 5 - The Tannery Workers of Tangra 6 - Lessons of Ayodhya: Has the Left Lost Its Vision? 7 - The New Right and the New Left 8 - Party, Mass Organizations, and Mass Movements 9 - More on Party and Mass Organization 10 - Votes and Populism Section Two: New Issues, New Perspectives 11 - Who Is Afraid of the Migrants in Bengal? 12 - A Library and an Institution 13 - Hunger and the Politics of Life 14 - Rajarhat—An Urban Dystopia 15 - Dialogue and Growth 16 - All Die, but All Do Not Die Equally 17 - Chronicles of the Ranks 18 - The Fast Emerging Power Vacuum 19 - Civil Society and the Politics of a Society 20 - Is Bengal’s Restless Spirit in Decline? Section Three: Contentious Politics 21 - Claim Making in the Age of Bio-politics 22 - That Was Revolt, This Is Civil War 23 - Elections in the Time of a Civil War 24 - Populism and Peace 25 - Different Ways of Truth Telling 26 - The Idea of a Front 27 - Elections and Expanding Our Representative System 28 - Spring Time in Bengal 29 - Their Civil Society, Our Civil Society 30 - Stocktaking Midway through the War Section Four: Messy Change 31 - Transitional Challenges 32 - Governing the Multitude—I 33 - Governing the Multitude—II 34 - How to Prevent a Telengana Type Situation in West Bengal 35 - The Challenge of Building a Non-corporate Path of Development 36 - A Suggestion on Bengal’s Economic Woes 37 - A Square Leading to Many Unknown Destinations 38 - Early but Inevitable Errors in Judgement 39 - A Violent History of Peace 40 - Political Change Is Never for Utopia 41 - Knight Riders in Kolkata Section Five: Perennial Themes 42 - Eternal Bengal 43 - “It Does Not Die”—Urban Protest in Calcutta, 1987–2007 Section Six: Postscript The Epoch of Passive Revolution Index About the Author