Maoism, Democracy and Globalisation

Ajay Gudavarthy is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Political Studies of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Ajay Gudavarthy taught earlier as Assistant Professor at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. He had been Visiting Fellow, Centre for Citizenship, Civil society and Rule of Law, University of Aberdeen in 2012. He was Visiting Faculty at Centre for Human Rights, University of Hyderabad in 2011 and Visiting Fellow, Goldsmith College, University of London in 2010. In 2008, he was Charles Wallace Visiting Fellow, the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London.His published works include Re-framing Democracy and Agency in India: Interrogating Political Society (edited, 2012) and Politics of Post-civil Society: Contemporary History of Political Movements in India (SAGE Publications, New Delhi, 2013).

• Preface and AcknowledgementsIntroduction: India Disconnected: Joining the DotsI: MAOISMDemocracy against Maoism, Maoism against ItselfII: DEMOCRACYMiddle Classes: Urban Activism and Anna Hazare’s Soap OperaBackward Classes: Reservations, Recognition and the RepublicSubaltern Classes: Governmentality, Resistance and ’Political Society’III: GLOBALISATIONPolitics of Global Human Rights in IndiaGlobalisation and Regionalisation: Mapping the New Continental DriftEpilogue: India’s Violent Democracy: Past and FutureReferencesIndex

This lucid book offers a sobering reminder of the defciencies of India’s political regime and highlights the limits of poor people’s opposition to the state power. Through critically interrogating the nature and extent of subaltern agency in India, Gudavarthy offers a provocative set of arguments about India’s ‘violent democracy’.