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Power and Contestation: India since 1989

By Nivedita Menon , Aditya Nigam

Book information

Publisher
Zed books
Year
2007
ISBN
1842778145, 9781842778142, 1842778153, 9781842778159, 155266239X, 9781552662397
Open Library ID
OL11901163M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2021239 bytes)
Series
Global History of the Present
Pages
235\235
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

This book is the ideal introduction to India's complex internal histories and external power relations since 1989, a date which marks the unraveling of India's post-independence "Nehruvian Consensus" around the idea of a self-reliant modern, secular state. While global economic integration has led to conflict between the state and dispossessed people, it has also enabled new spaces for political assertion, such as around sexuality. Older challenges to the state continue in Kashmir and the North-East, while Maoist insurgency has deepened its bases. In a world of American Empire, India as a nuclear power has abandoned non-alignment, a shift that is contested by voices within. Power and Contestation shows that the turbulence and turmoil of this period are signs of India's continued vibrancy and democracy.

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