Social Movements in India

Raka Ray is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.Mary Fainsod Katzenstein is professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University.

• Introduction: In the Beginning, There Was the Nehruvian StateChapter 1: From Class Compromise to Class Accommodation: Labor's Incorporation into the Indian Political EconomyChapter 2: Problems of Social Power and the Discourses of the Hindu RightChapter 3: Reinventing Public Power in the Age of Globalization: The Transformation of Movement Politics in KeralaChapter 4: Feminism, Poverty, and the Emergent Social OrderChapter 5: Who Are The Country's Poor? Social Movement Politics and Dalit PovertyChapter 6: Red in Tooth and Claw? Looking for Class in Struggles over NatureChapter 7: Farmer's Movements and the Debate on Poverty and Economic Reforms in IndiaChapter 8: Miracle Seeds, Suicide Seeds, and the Poor: GMOs, NGOs, Farmers and the StateChapter 9: Strong States, Strong NGOs

This seminal anthology embeds the study of social movements just where it belongs, in the workings of state-society relations and democratic politics. It carefully charts changing patterns of social mobilization while identifying diverse and contradictory trends in each epoch. It underlines both the extraordinary significance of social movements and the extraordinary challenges of combining commitments to redistribution and poverty alleviation with other issues and identities.