Communism in India

Events, Processes and Ideologies
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-997489-4
Verlag: OUP US

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 728 g

In Communism in India, Bidyut Chakrabarty, an expert on contemporary Indian political economy and social movements, presents a sweeping analysis of the changing nature of communist ideology over the past century in India. India's left movements are notable, when placed in comparative historical perspective with similar movements elsewhere, as the country is the home of two co-existing strands of modern communism: the parliamentary Communist Party of India (the first democratically elected Marxist government) and the extra-parliamentary revolutionary Maoist movement. Drawing on ethnographic field work conducted in Orissa, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, Chakrabarty provides a contextual account of the rise, consolidation, and relative decline of these two types of left radicalism. He looks at how it is that left ideology has co-existed with free-market-oriented economic policies as well as the contexts in which more militant strands have more recently taken root, particularly among the young in the poorer districts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chakrabarty, Bidyut

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- List of Abbreviations

- Introduction

- Part I Parliamentary Left in India

- Chapter 1: Parliamentary left in Tripura: a creative blending of ideology and organization prevailing over ethnic division

- Chapter 2: Parliamentary left in Kerala: a creative socio-political engineering of governance

- Chapter 3: Parliamentary left in West Bengal: organizational hegemony established through an ideological churning

- Chapter 4: Parliamentary left in West Bengal: a nemesis failing to re-kindle the old charm in globalizing India

- Part II Left-Wing-Extremism in India

- Chapter 5: Genesis of Maoism in India

- Chapter 6: The Maoist blueprint for future India

- Chapter 7: Maoism: a utopia or 'Jacobean' reign of terror?

- Conclusion

- Appendix: Party Constitution of the Communist Party of India (Maoist)

- Notes

- Bibliographical Notes with Select Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bidyut Chakrabarty is Professor of Political Science at Delhi University.