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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Social Movements In India: Poverty, Power, and Politics
(Book Review)
Title main entry. Ed. by Raka Ray and Mary Fainsod Katzenstein. (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives)
Rowman & Littlefield, [c]2005
311 p.
$34.95 (pa)
Twelve academics from India and the U.S. contribute nine chapters based on an April 2001 conference held at the U. of California, Berkeley, focusing on social movements and poverty. The essays examine the shifts in state-society relations in India through three post-Independence phases: the quest for poverty alleviation and development during the early post-Independence period; the transitional period of 1964 to 1984, when the Congress-dominated state failed to achieve significant poverty reduction and other types of social movements--environmental, women's, and caste--increased; and the more recent phase, from 1984 to 2000, when Hindu nationalism and neo-liberalism have influenced Indian politics. For students, scholars and researchers.
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(Book Review)
Title main entry. Ed. by Raka Ray and Mary Fainsod Katzenstein. (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives)
Rowman & Littlefield, [c]2005
311 p.
$34.95 (pa)
Twelve academics from India and the U.S. contribute nine chapters based on an April 2001 conference held at the U. of California, Berkeley, focusing on social movements and poverty. The essays examine the shifts in state-society relations in India through three post-Independence phases: the quest for poverty alleviation and development during the early post-Independence period; the transitional period of 1964 to 1984, when the Congress-dominated state failed to achieve significant poverty reduction and other types of social movements--environmental, women's, and caste--increased; and the more recent phase, from 1984 to 2000, when Hindu nationalism and neo-liberalism have influenced Indian politics. For students, scholars and researchers.
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