Two Faces of Protest: Contrasting Modes of Women's Activism in India

By Amrita Basu and Amrita Basu

Book Overview

Drawing on case studies of the Communist Party of India in West Bengal and Shramik Sangathana in Maharashtra, this work examines Indian women's political activism. Investigating institutional changes at the state level and protest at the village level, Amrita Basu traces the paths of two kinds of political activism among these women. With insights gleaned from extensive interviews with activists, government officials, and ordinary men and women, she finds that militancy has been fueled by pronounced sexual class cleavages combined with potentially rancorous ethnic division.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520065069
• ISBN13: 9780520065062
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 308 Pages