Politics from Below: Essays on Subalternity and Resistance in India
Author:   Alf Gunvald Nilsen
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032666785


Pages:   228
Publication Date:   06 May 2025
Format:   Paperback
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Politics from Below: Essays on Subalternity and Resistance in India


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This book is a collection of essays that question how subalternity is constituted and contested in Indian society. It draws on Antonio Gramsci's work to investigate the dynamics of hegemony, subalternity and resistance in India, both past and present. Drawing on the author's extensive fieldwork, Politics from Below presents detailed ethnographic studies of the movement against dam building in the Narmada Valley and Adivasi mobilization to democratize the local state in western India. The book will be relevant to students and scholars with an interest in social movements and the political economy of development and democracy in India, as well as to activists and engaged members of the public more generally. This title is co-published with Aakar Books. Print editions not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)

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Author:   Alf Gunvald Nilsen
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.160kg
ISBN:  

9781032666785


ISBN 10:   1032666781
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   06 May 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Theorizing Subaltern Politics 1. Autonomous Domains or Relational Practices? Power and Resistance in Colonial and Postcolonial India 2. For a Historical Sociology of State-Society Relations in the Study of Subaltern Politics Part II: Popular Struggles in Contemporary India 3. Against the Current, from Below: Resisting Dispossession in the Narmada Valley 4. Subaltern Resistance in the Bhil Heartland: Historical Trajectories and Contemporary Scenarios Bibliography Index

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Alf Gunvald Nilsen is Associate Professor in the Department of Global Development and Planning at the University of Agder and Research Associate in the Society, Work and Development Institute at the University of Witwatersrand.

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