Social Movements and the State

Ghanshyam Shah is currently Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wassenaar, The Netherlands. During a rich and distinguished career, he has been Director of the Centre for Social Studies, Surat (1976–85 and again from 1991 to 1996); Dr Ambedkar Chair Professor at the National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie (1996–97); and Professor in Social Sciences at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, (1997–2003). Professor Shah has taught in the Department of Public Administration at South Gujarat University; and has been a Visiting Professor at the Department of Political Science at Banaras Hindu University and at the Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, among others. He was awarded the V.K.R.V. Rao prize in Political Science Research in 1979 and 1980, and the University Grants Commission National Award in Political Science in 1998. Ghanshyam Shah has authored, co-authored or edited more than 15 books, including Social Movements and the State (2002), Dalit Identity and Politics (2001) and Public Health and Urban Development: The Study of the Surat Plague (1997).

• PrefaceIntroduction - Ghanshyam ShahNine Theses on Social Movements - Andre Gunder Frank and Marta FuentesCyclical Movement toward the `Eternal′ - `Nine Theses of Social Movements′ - D N Dhanagare and J JohnA CritiqueMasses, Classes and the State - Rajni KothariSocial Origins of the Peasant Insurrection in Telengana, 1946-51 - D N DhanagareNaxalbari and the Left Movement - Sumanta BanerjeeFarmers′ Movements in Contemporary India - Dipankar GuptaOrganized Labour and Militant Unionism - Salim LakhaThe Bombay Textile Workers′ Strike of 1982Tribal Solidarity Movements in India - Surajit SinhaA ReviewTribal Autonomy Movements in Chhotanagpur - K S SinghAmbedkar and After - Gail OmvedtThe Dalit Movement in IndiaTaking Stock - Lakshmi LingamWomen′s Movement and the StateDirect Action in India - Ghanshyam ShahA Study of Gujarat and Bihar AgitationsLittle Nationalism Turned Chauvinist - Amalendu GuhaAssam′s Anti-Foreigner Upsurge, 1979-80`God Must Be Liberated′ - Peter Van Der VeerA Hindu Liberation Movement in AyodhyaChipko - Ramachandra GuhaSocial History of an `Environmental′ MovementSelect ReadingsIndex

`This is a useful volume that combines theoretical insights with dense empirical data. It brings together... important contributions by leading scholars on a wide range of social movements′