Social Movements and the State in India

Chapter 1 Social Movements, State Formation and Democracy in India: An Introduction

Chapter 2 The Slow-Motion Counterrevolution: Developmental Contradictions and the Emergence of Neoliberalism

Chapter 3 The Politics of Caste and the Deepening of India’s Democracy: The Case of the Backward Caste Movement in Bihar

Chapter 5 Feminist Efforts to Democratize Democracy: Insights from Four Decades of Activism in India

Chapter 6 Women Workers, Collective Action and the “Right to Work” in Madhya Pradesh

Chapter 7 Turbid Transparency: Retelling the Story of the Right to Information Act in India

Chapter 8 Rights-Based Legislation in Practice: A View from Southern Orissa

Chapter 9 Re-making Labour in India: State Policy, Corporate Power and Labour Movement Mobilisation

Chapter 10 Blind Alleys and Red Herrings? Social Movements, the State, Class Alliances and Pro-Labouring Class Strategy

Chapter 11 Disappearing Landlords and the Unmaking of Revolution: Maoist Mobilization, the State and Agrarian Change in Northern Telangana

Chapter 12 Conclusion