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Mobilizing Religion and Gender in India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 195

Mobilizing Religion and Gender in India

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-10-30
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Religious nationalists and women’s activists have transformed India over the past century. They debated the idea of India under colonial rule, shaped the constitutional structure of Indian democracy, and questioned the legitimacy of the postcolonial consensus, as they politicized one dimension of identity. Using a historical comparative approach, the book argues that external events, activist agency in strategizing, and the political economy of transnational networks explain the relative success and failure of Hindu nationalism and the Indian women’s movement rather than the ideological claims each movement makes. By focusing on how particular activist strategies lead to increased levels...

The Sex Obsession
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

The Sex Obsession

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-04-11
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

""The Sex Obsession" connects perversity and possibility in American politics"--

Children and Violence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 345

Children and Violence

Explores the conceptualisation of childhood in South Asia and comments on the shift from welfare to the protection of children's rights in the region.

Social Movements and the Indian Diaspora
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Social Movements and the Indian Diaspora

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-11-19
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  • Publisher: Routledge

With the elevation of Islam and Muslim transnational networks in international affairs, from the rise of Al Qaeda to the revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East, the study of Diasporas and transnational identities has become more relevant. Using case studies from Fiji, Mauritius, Trinidad and South Africa, this book explores the diaspora identities and impact of social movements on politics and nationalism among indentured Indian diaspora. It analyses the way in which diasporas are defined by themselves and others, and the types of social movements they participate in, showing how these are critical indicators of the threat they are perceived to pose. The book examines the notions of...

Beyond Origins
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Beyond Origins

Beyond Origins challenges the common view of foundings as singular, extraordinary moments of political origin and creation. Engaging with cases of founding across political traditions -- from classical Greece to contemporary Latin America -- the book argues that it is only through pragmatist understandings of democratic origins that we can realize the potential for radical democratic change.

Nandini Satpathy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Nandini Satpathy

Obliterated from the pages of history, as women often are, Odisha’s first woman Chief Minister, Nandini Satpathy, known also as the Iron Lady of Orissa, was born to a family of revolutionaries and intellectuals. During her teenage years in the ‘40s, this petite girl in a starchy cotton saree was jailed for pulling down the Union Jack from atop the edifice of Ravenshaw College. Thus began the makings of a force to be reckoned with. Coming up through the ranks to ultimately reach the hallowed halls of the Rajya Sabha at the mere age of 31, this grassroots student politician went on to become the I&B minister in Indira Gandhi’s first government, where she facilitated the working of the Fr...

Ethics in Governance in India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Ethics in Governance in India

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-03-31
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Governance and ethics are intertwined. A government functions within certain broad moral and ethical parameters, integrally linked with the sociological foundation of the polity in which it is articulated. The importance of ethics in governance has acquired a significant place in contemporary theoretical discussion. This book situates ethics in governance in India in the national frame and incorporates the context of globalization, allowing for the increasing importance of non-state global actors in national decision making. The author argues that a lack of ethics quickly turns into corruption and leads to governmental efforts to deal with it. He proposes that ethics are a set of standards that a society places on itself to articulate its responses to societal needs, and discusses the efforts of the Indian government at eradicating corruption and its failure. A theoretical approach to the issues of ethics in governance and corruption, this book is of interest to academics in the fields of Asian Politics, in particular Indian politics, and political philosophy.

Marginalized, Mobilized, Incorporated
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

Marginalized, Mobilized, Incorporated

How has the participation of women in Hindu nationalist politics in India changed over time? More broadly, what has their changing participation meant for women, Hindu nationalism, and Indian democracy?In Marginalized, Mobilized, Incorporated, Rina Verma Williams places women's participation in religious politics in India into historical and comparative perspective through a focus on the most important Hindu nationalist political parties in modern Indian history: the All-India Hindu Mahasabha (HMS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). She compares three critical periods to show the increasing involvement of women in Hindu nationalist politics over time. In its formative years in the early 1...

The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern Britain and its Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern Britain and its Empire

Explores the emergence of majority rule in the elected assemblies of early modern Britain and its Atlantic colonies over two centuries.

Indonesian Destinies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 648

Indonesian Destinies

How can such a gentle people as we are be so murderous? a prominent Indonesian asks. That question--and the mysteries of the archipelago's vast contradictions--haunt Theodore Friend's remarkable work, a narrative of Indonesia during the last half century, from the postwar revolution against Dutch imperialism to the unrest of today. Part history, part meditation on a place and a past observed firsthand, Indonesian Destinies penetrates events that gave birth to the world's fourth largest nation and assesses the continuing dangers that threaten to tear it apart. Friend reveals Sukarno's character through wartime collaboration with Japan, and Suharto's through the mass murder of communists that ...