Power and Contestation: India Since 1989

by Nivedita Menon and Aditya Nigam

Book Overview

1989 marks the unraveling of India's 'Nehruvian Consensus' around the idea of a modern, secular nation with a self-reliant economy.

Caste and religion have come to play major roles in national politics. Global economic integration has led to conflict between the state and dispossessed people, but processes of globalization have also enabled new spaces for political assertion, such as around sexuality. Older challenges to the idea of India...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1842778153
• ISBN13: 9781842778159
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"