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Author: Ranabir Samaddar
Publisher: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Imprint: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 15.80cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 24.10cm
Weight: 0.490kg
ISBN: 9788132110941
ISBN 10: 8132110943
Pages: 266
Publication Date: December 2013
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
The book contains many brilliant flashes of a social scientist. The analytical framework he uses to understand the contemporary history of West Bengal and interpreting it in terms of a sense of heterogeneity of events in a contemporary time scale adds to the value. -- The Financial Express 20130414
A valuable contribution to the rich literature analysing the causes and consequences of the collapse of the left front government in West Bengal...Samaddar walks us through the highly interesting period (1977-2011) of change stagnation thematically arranged under five sections...the focussed discussion on particular lapses and fault lines is complemented by an insightful overview of the essential logic of the LF rule and the process of its inevitable collapse. -- Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 49, 18 January 2014 A commendable work, comprehensive and remarkable in a way the newspaper columns are woven together into an integrated bouquet. -- The Statesman, 26 January 2014 The book contains many brilliant flashes of a social scientist. The analytical framework he uses to understand the contemporary history of West Bengal and interpreting it in terms of a sense of heterogeneity of events in a contemporary time scale adds to the value. -- The Financial Express
A valuable contribution to the rich literature analysing the causes and consequences of the collapse of the left front government in West Bengal...Samaddar walks us through the highly interesting period (1977-2011) of change stagnation thematically arranged under five sections...the focussed discussion on particular lapses and fault lines is complemented by an insightful overview of the essential logic of the LF rule and the process of its inevitable collapse. -- Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 49, 18 January 2014 A commendable work, comprehensive and remarkable in a way the newspaper columns are woven together into an integrated bouquet. -- The Statesman, 26 January 2014 The book contains many brilliant flashes of a social scientist. The analytical framework he uses to understand the contemporary history of West Bengal and interpreting it in terms of a sense of heterogeneity of events in a contemporary time scale adds to the value. -- The Financial Express
Author Information
Ranabir Samaddar is the Director of the Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, and belongs to the school of critical thinking. He has worked extensively on issues of justice and rights in the context of conflicts in South Asia. Samaddar’s particular researches have spread over a wide area comprising migration and refugee studies, the theory and practices of dialogue, nationalism and postcolonial statehood in South Asia, and new regimes of technological restructuring and labour control. His recent political writings The Emergence of the Political Subject (2009) and The Nation Form (2012) have signalled a new turn in critical postcolonial thinking and have challenged some of the prevailing accounts of the birth of nationalism and the nation state.
