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India's vibrant civil society sector has become a powerful symbol of political participation in the country. It comprises a wealth of media organizations, caste and religion based associations, farmers groups, labor unions, social service organizations, and an almost limitless number of development organizations. Given this vibrancy, it is difficult to grasp the characteristics of civil society at the transnational or even the national level. Delving beneath the progressive surface to the local level, one finds a murky and multifaceted world of competing interests, compromises, uneasy alliances and erratic victories. The Politics of Collective Advocacy in India critically examines the enormous gap between the ways collective action in India is studied and the ways it operates on the ground.

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This book represents a significant contribution to understanding collective advocacy in India, spanning feminist, human rights, environmental, ethnic, and tribal movements. Summing up: Recommended. All readership levels. A very readable, succinct and excellent synthesis of the experiences of a number of organizations and advocacy movements. India's dynamic and complex civil society is captured well and includes linkages at the local, national and global levels. The associated 'traps and tools' are well identified and the elaborated principles of successful collective action are sound and indeed replicable. Both academics and development practitioners will find this book highly useful. Empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated The Politics of Collective Advocacy in India makes a major contribution to our understanding of civic action not only in India but in the wider developing world. Deo and McDuie-Ra interrogate power, the local-transnational nexus, and local-national interactions in complex and subtle ways. Their research presents challenging conclusions for advocacy and scholarship. I hope this book will get the wide readership it deserves. This is a long needed, finely researched, and admirably presented work of scholarship on civil society movements, advocacy networks, and social activism in India. Drawing from a variety of left and right movements including Hindu Nationalist and women s movements, pro-and anti-dam movements, the book highlights the key determinants of social movement outcomes. It is required reading not just for scholars and researchers, but also those with any interest in the changing, emergent, future Indian society.

Empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated The Politics of Collective Advocacy in India makes a major contribution to our understanding of civic action not only in India but in the wider developing world. Deo and McDuie-Ra interrogate power, the local-transnational nexus, and local-national interactions in complex and subtle ways. Their research presents challenging conclusions for advocacy and scholarship. I hope this book will get the wide readership it deserves. This book represents a significant contribution to understanding collective advocacy in India, spanning feminist, human rights, environmental, ethnic, and tribal movements. Summing up: Recommended. All readership levels. This is a long needed, finely researched, and admirably presented work of scholarship on civil society movements, advocacy networks, and social activism in India. Drawing from a variety of left and right movements including Hindu Nationalist and women s movements, pro-and anti-dam movements, the book highlights the key determinants of social movement outcomes. It is required reading not just for scholars and researchers, but also those with any interest in the changing, emergent, future Indian society. A very readable, succinct and excellent synthesis of the experiences of a number of organizations and advocacy movements. India's dynamic and complex civil society is captured well and includes linkages at the local, national and global levels. The associated 'traps and tools' are well identified and the elaborated principles of successful collective action are sound and indeed replicable. Both academics and development practitioners will find this book highly useful.

Empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated The Politics of Collective Advocacy in India makes a major contribution to our understanding of civic action not only in India but in the wider developing world. Deo and McDuie-Ra interrogate power, the local-transnational nexus, and local-national interactions in complex and subtle ways. Their research presents challenging conclusions for advocacy and scholarship. I hope this book will get the wide readership it deserves.

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