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    A critique of India's political secularism
    ( 2011-10-22) Patnaik, Arun K.
    This article takes a cue from Charles Taylor that a secular theory/practice must transform a nation's social imaginary in order to gain ascendancy in popular imagination. It may however be added that in case it does not do so, then it would leave a series of voids between social imaginary and secular politics, which would then be available to anti-secular forces to gain domination over the popular.
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    A Political Satire for All Times: Reading Hāsyārṇava-prahasanaṁ or the Ocean of Mirth of Jagadēśvara Bhaṭṭāchārya
    ( 2019-06-01) Sharma, Jyotirmaya
    Hāsyārṇava, the Ocean of Mirth, a medieval Sanskrit political satire, delineates three central themes that require serious consideration. First, the Indic traditions underline the centrality of order in a polity. This preoccupation is underlined by the supremacy of the Rājadharma-daṇḍanīti framework. A great deal of violence and cruelty inheres within this framework. Second, if the order is the site for violence and force, it follows that a glimpse of freedom, unshackled from the conventional implications of the puruṣārthas can only be had in upholding the desirability of disorder. Finally, the Indic traditions can transgress and express dissent with the help of a plurality of philosophical and conceptual alternatives rather than hankering after a single set of foundational values or an inevitable normativity.
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    A restatement of religion: Swami Vivekananda and the making of Hindu nationalism
    ( 2013-12-01) Sharma, Jyotirmaya
    In this third installment of his comprehensive history of "India's religion" and reappraisal of Hindu identity, Professor Jyotirmaya Sharma offers an engaging portrait of Swami Vivekananda and his relationship with his guru, the legendary Ramakrishna. Sharma's work focuses on Vivekananda's reinterpretation and formulation of diverse Indian spiritual and mystical traditions and practices as "Hinduism" and how it served to create, distort, and justify a national self-image. The author examines questions of caste and the primacy of the West in Vivekananda's vision, as well as the systematic marginalization of alternate religions and heterodox beliefs. In doing so, Professor Sharma provides readers with an incisive entryway into nineteenth- and twentieth-century Indian history and the rise of Hindutva, the Hindu nationalist movement. Sharma's illuminating narrative is an excellent reexamination of one of India's most controversial religious figures and a fascinating study of the symbiosis of Indian history, religion, politics, and national identity. It is an essential story for anyone interested in the evolution of one of the world's great religions and its role in shaping contemporary India. © 2013 by Jyotirmaya Sharma. All rights reserved.
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    A separate telangana promises and prospects for tribal people
    ( 2013-07-20) Ramdas, R.
    This article looks at the agendas and interests of the tribal people of Telangana region, who perceive that they have been continuously neglected and deprived of their legitimate rights and entitlements right from the time of the Nizam's rule. The present "democratically elected governments", dominated by the upper castes and landlords, have continued to exploit them. Can the plundering of the tribal people be stopped? Will the formation of a separate Telangana state generate a set of strategies that will ensure social justice for them? Will it bring about a better interface between tribals and non-tribals?.
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    About the Special Issue on 2019 Elections
    ( 2019-12-01) Suri, K. C. ; Palshikar, Suhas
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    Alliances and lessons of election 2009
    ( 2009-12-01) Kailash, K. K.
    Analysing the peculiar nature of alliances in the April-May 2009 Lok Sabha elections, this study points out that a major change was wrought by the Congress opting to abandon its national alliance in favour of state-level agreements. The new delimitation gave the Congress an opportunity to redraw the lines and break out of the corner that it had been boxed into by its coalition partners. Further, unlike 2004, all parties hedged their bets, waiting for post-election negotiations, and both the major groupings announced no common programme. Another notable feature was the high proportion of seats in which a split in votes by a third candidate decided the winner. Added to the prominent role played by many state and regional parties, all this seems to indicate that coalition politics is here to stay.
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    Alternative notions of sexuality and personhood: The case of Bal Gandharva
    ( 2018-07-03) Devare, Aparna
    This article examines the meteoric rise and enormous popularity of a Marathi stage actor and singer, Bal Gandharva, in early twentiethcentury western India. Gandharva was distinctive because he was a male artist who dressed and acted as a woman on stage and was adulated by both women and men for his powerful female roles. The article argues that Gandharva embodied ‘fuzzy’ boundaries between man and woman, drawing from indigenous traditions of gender fluidity. While maintaining strict boundaries between being a man in his personal life and a woman on stage, Gandharva tapped into alternative notions of masculinity. I argue that the adulation he experienced for his acting and singing as a woman points to transgressive possibilities in the otherwise conservative middle-class imagination and challenges what are colonial constructions of hyper-masculinity.
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    Ambedkar on Indian democracy
    ( 2017-11-10) Patnaik, Arun K.
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    An act of transgression
    ( 2012-05-12) Patnaik, Arun K.
    A continuation of the discussion on "Leninism as Radical 'Desireology'" (EPW, 24 September 2011). Murzban criticises this author's response for expressing a cold war liberal psychology but he adopts the same psychology in his response and argues that if "you are not with Marx, you are against Marx".
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    Andhra pradesh: A vote for status quo?
    ( 2009-12-01) Suri, K. C. ; Narasimha Rao, P. ; Anji Reddy, V.
    The second consecutive victory of the Congress Party in the 2009 parliamentary and assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh does not mean that the political situation in the state is stable or that the status quo will continue undisturbed. Voters did not hand out a big victory to the Congress government, but gave it a second term with a reduced vote and slender majority in the assembly. The fragmentation of the two-party system into a truer multiparty system and the entry of new players were the primary reasons for the outcome. The victory for the Congress can even be interpreted as an opportunity for introspection by the defeated parties with the election results turning out to be an occasion not for dejection, but one of hope.
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    Andhra Pradesh: Political shifts and electoral volatility
    ( 2014-06-19) Suri, K. C. ; Rao, P. Narasimha ; Reddy, V. Anji
    This chapter analyses the factors that contributed to the limited electoral success of the Congress party in the 2009 Lok Sabha and Assembly elections. Three factors seem to stand out as important ones: (1 ) favourable voter evaluations of the performance of the central government as well as the State government, both run by the Congress party; (2) failure of any one opposition party or alliance of parties to present a credible alternative to the Congress party; and (3) the ability of the Congress party to retain its traditional support base. Over the past few years the state of Andhra Pradesh saw a quick evaporation of the apparent stability that marked the government and politics of the state during the years 2004-2008, partly due to agitations for and against the division of the State and the tragic death of its powerful Chief Minister that resulted in a condition of high voltage politics, radical political shifts, and increased electoral volatility.
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    Angels are turning red: Nurses' strikes in Kerala
    ( 2013-12-28) Biju, B. L.
    The nurses' strikes indicated the outburst of the self-concealed and politically ignored labour's unrest in the hospital industry. It is the beginning of a different form of class struggle, a demand for a more adaptive and communicative strategy from the established trade unions and the political left. This article looks at the labour-capital conflicts in Kerala's hospital industry, class formation and unionisation of nurses and the approach of political parties and the government to the question of labour.
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    Asymmetric Federalism and the Question of Democratic Justice in Northeast India
    ( 2014-01-01) Hausing, Kham Khan Suan
    This article intends to fill a glaring void in the existing academic literature on the issues and challenges which stem not only from crafting, but also making asymmetric federalism work in northeast India. It examines the extent and limits to which asymmetric federalism-specifically under Article 371A of India's Constitution-not only negotiates Nagas' sovereignty claims over their land and resources and caters to the demands of democratic justice, but also the extent to which it consolidates India's state-nation and democracy building in its northeastern periphery. Contending that the extant asymmetric federal arrangement in India's polity stems from a centralist federal framework, the article makes a case for a more robust asymmetric federalism, which goes beyond this framework. Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
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    Autonomy and the territorial management of ethnic conflicts in Northeast India
    ( 2022-01-01) Hausing, Kham Khan Suan
    This article draws a typology of autonomy in the Northeast to examine how the Indian state territorially manages ethnic conflicts in its periphery. The differential nature and history of conflicts, and timing and mode of negotiation, are used as two broad explanatory variables to account for when, how and under what circumstances the Indian state is likely to recognize and accommodate self-determination/self-rule claims of territorially concentrated tribal groups, and simultaneously foster peace and stability. While timely, yet partial, recognition and accommodation of self-determination/self-rule claims of the Naga, Bodo and Manipur’s tribal groups are considered necessary to promote peace and stability, they are found to be insufficient conditions to promote durable peace and stability unless they are supplemented by robust identity-preserving powers over land and resources, on the one hand, and power-sharing not only across India’s multilevel federal polity–Centre, State and sub-State – but also within and across tribal/non-tribal groups, on the other hand. These findings have resonance in other deeply divided places, inter alia, Cyprus and Iraq where the failure to simultaneously recognize self-determination claims and envision robust power-sharing entail stalemated conflicts and instability.
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    Beyond Quasi Federalism: Change and Continuity in Indian Federalism
    ( 2018-12-01) Arora, Balveer ; Kailash, K. K.
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    Caste and ‘seeing double’ the challenge of aniket jaaware’s practicing caste
    ( 2019-10-26) Hegde, Sasheej ; Palshikar, Sanjay
    Aniket Jaaware’s Practicing Caste: On Touching and Not Touching is a unique and somewhat audacious rendezvous with caste as thought and rethought through the “operation of touch.” The effort here is to explore some possibilities internal to this work so as to bring newer resources of thought to our discussions of caste in India/South Asia. Rather than combing through the entirety of the work in question, it is essential to capture the sense of vision that constitutes a part of the challenge of Practicing Caste.
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    Civil society: Alternatives and differences
    ( 2011-01-01) Palshikar, Sanjay
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    Class feminism: The Kudumbashree agitation in Kerala
    ( 2013-03-02) Biju, B. L. ; Abhilash Kumar, K. G.
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    Common sense, habitus, and social imaginary: Case studies from India
    ( 2021-06-26) Krishnendu, Gaana ; Wadekar, Siddhi ; Majumdar, Samprit ; Patnaik, Arun K.
    A comparative perspective of pre-theoretical consciousness is presented here. By comparing Gramsci's common sense (from the interwar period; 1999) with Bourdieu's habitus (1977) and Taylor's social imaginary (2004)-the two most influential post-war conceptualisations-the paper argues that the latter two conceptually enrich Gramsci's common sense. However, both say that a theoretical system penetrates the non-intellectual (pre-theoretical) world from the outside and transforms it. In contrast, Gramsci claims that a theory constantly evolves in dialogue with the cognitive activities of the ordinary. The non-intellectual is a teacher, not simply a pupil waiting for transmission of philosophy from the above.
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    Confronting everyday humiliation response from an adivasi
    ( 2016-07-30) Rupavath, Ramdas
    This article aims to add to the debate on nationalism from the standpoint of an Adivasi. Rethinking the issue of university agitations from a subaltern perspective will contribute to the ongoing critical engagement. While student organisations should not be narrow-minded or indulge in polarisation of castes or communities, it also does not make sense for the ruling party to monopolise freedom of speech against caste oppression, communal violence, and any kind of discrimination faced by people.