Struggle for Hegemony in India

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-81-321-0654-8
Verlag: Sage Publications India

Buch, Englisch, 1276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 2148 g

Struggle for Hegemony in India is a three-volume series that delineates the multidimensional activities of the Indian communists. It explores the role of the communist movement within the democratic polity of India. The series addresses the changing relationship of the communists with the Indian National Congress, their emergence as an opposition party, the details of the formation of Left Front governments in state politics, and their experience with insurrectionary movements in the country.

Deploying Gramsci’s concept of hegemony, the series comments on the failure of the left-wing to establish itself as a hegemonic force in India. The interpretation of the concept in terms of power between different ‘classes’ and ‘communities’ is groundbreaking; it not only enlarges the meaning of ‘hegemony’ but also makes it the basis of a new historiography.

This revised edition covers an extensive period from 1920 to 2009, tracing the communist movement from its earliest years in India to contemporary times. The authors, both grounded in Marxist literature, are able to expertly analyze the various contours of the communist movement in South Asia within the context of the struggle for power and hegemony.

Zielgruppe

Those studying, researching, and teaching Marxist studies, Colonial and Post colonial studies, South Asian Studies, Political Science, Cultural Studies, thinks tanks and policy research groups.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Joshi, Shashi

Josh, Bhagwan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Sozialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME 1
Hegemony and the Historical Method

The Irrelevance of Leninism

The Non-cooperation Movement and the Birth of Workers' and Peasants' Parties

To be or Not to be: Communist Party or WPP?

The Colonial State, Indian Capitalists, and the Left: State, Nation and Class

Nehru's Paradigm

Towards Left Hegemony: Molecular Changes in Mass Ideology

Salt and the Steelframe Contending Hegemonies

'Sarkar Hargai'

Of Strategies and Methods of Struggle
The Politics of Nation and Class

'Sectarianism' or Alienation

In the Ghetto

M.N. Roy, Indian Communists and the Third International
VOLUME 2
The Colonial State

Gandhian Strategy and the Framework of Hegemonic Politics

State Policy, Congress Crisis, and the Birth of a New Ideology

Gathering Forces of the Left and Government's Strategy of Suppression

The Third International and the Indian Communists: Communist Party and the Disunited National Front

Marxism and Marxist Practices

Of Political Issues and Ideological Conflicts: Colonial Constitution, Council Entry and Office Acceptance

The Ministries and the Left: Experiments with Class Adjustment

The Left and the Ministries: Experiments with Class Confrontation - I

The Left and the Ministries: Experiments with Class Confrontation - II

The Divided left: Notes on Permanent Disunity

Politics of Transformation vs Politics of Alternative

Communists since Independence

Epilogue - From Naxalbari to Lalgarh: The Continuity of Insurrectionary Politics
VOLUME 3
Culture, Community and Power

Outline of a Theory of Cultural Power

The Power of the Past: Two Paradigms of Cultural Hegemony

Power and Hegemony: The Site of Cultural Struggle

The Cultural Faultline and its Mirrors

The State in Medieval North India and the Cultural Faultline

Women and Sexuality in the Discourse of Communalism and Communal Violence

Narratives of Cultural Context
The Cultural Complexion of the Nation: Indian National Congress versus Hindu Mahasabha
Cultural Limits to Secular Politics: Sermons On National Unity

Three Songs
Conclusion
Postscript: Dilemmas of Indian Secularism
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Josh, Bhagwan
Bhagwan Josh is Professor of Contemporary History at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Besides writing for scholarly journals, he has contributed essays to many edited books. He is one of the project committee members of ‘Europe–South Asia Maritime Heritage Project’. He has also been co-director of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) project on the ‘History of the Indian National Congress, 1885–1947’.

Joshi, Shashi
Shashi Joshi is former Senior Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. A PhD in History from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Dr Joshi began her career as a senior lecturer in History at Miranda House, University of Delhi. She has also been a senior fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. From 1983 to 1987, she was co-director of the ‘History of the Indian National Congress, 1885–1947’—a project sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR).

Dr Joshi has authored a book, The Last Durbar: A Dramatic Presentation of the Division of British India, published in India and Pakistan simultaneously in 2006. She has authored Religion, Mission and Caste: Essays in the History of Christanity in India (2008). Presently, she is finalising the manuscript for another book, ‘In Gandhi’s Arc: Charles Andrews and Gandhi’, to be published in 2012.