Nivedita Menon

Power and Contestation

India Since 1989

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This book is the ideal introduction to India's complex internal histories and external power relations since 1989, a date which marks the unraveling of India's post-independence Nehruvian Consensus around the idea of a self-reliant modern, secular state. While global economic integration has led to conflict between the state and dispossessed people, it has also enabled new spaces for political assertion, such as around sexuality. Older challenges to the state continue in Kashmir and the North-East, while Maoist insurgency has deepened its bases. In a world of American Empire, India as a nuclear power has abandoned non-alignment, a shift that… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Nigam, Aditya

ISBN: 978-1-84277-814-2
EAN: 9781842778142
Produktnummer: 2854131
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 240 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.5 cm x D0.0 cm 420 g
Gewicht: 420
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Nivedita Menon is Reader in the Department of Political Science at the University of Delhi. Aditya Nigam is currently a Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi.