class in india
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Class in India. Politics of India Gov 1255 Prof Prerna Singh. Class. What is Class? Class & Politics Types of Class Politics. What is Class?. Pervasive force in all societies Social Identity + Economic concept Controversial Return to Karl Marx’s classic formulation . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Class in India
Politics of IndiaGov 1255
Prof Prerna Singh
Class
• What is Class?
• Class & Politics– Types of Class Politics
What is Class?
• Pervasive force in all societies• Social Identity + Economic concept• Controversial • Return to Karl Marx’s classic formulation
Class & Politics
Fundamental question: What can be done to improve one's life
chances? What can be done to improve the life chances
of the subordinate classes?
Focus on Social & Economic Justice
Class & Politics
• Types of Class Politics
– Constitutional
– Unconstitutional
Class & Politics
• Types of Class Politics
– Constitutional• Left political parties, Associations such as trade unions,
Movements, Demonstrations.
– Unconstitutional • Armed uprisings, Insurgencies, Rebellions
Class & Politics
• Types of Class Politics
– Constitutional
– Unconstitutional Agrarian
Class & Politics
• Types of Class Politics
– Constitutional
– Unconstitutional Agrarian
Land
Prices & Subsidies
Class & Politics
• Types of Class Politics
– Constitutional• Left political parties: Kerala & West Bengal
Class & Politics
• Types of Class Politics
– Constitutional• Left political parties: Kerala & West Bengal
MANALI DESAI: Class-based Movement
PATRICK HELLER: Class-based Associational Life
Class & Politics
• Types of Class Politics
– Constitutional• Left political parties: Kerala & West Bengal
MANALI DESAI: Class-based Movement
PATRICK HELLER: Class-based Associational Life
Class & Politics
• Types of Class Politics
– Unconstitutional
versus
Class & Politics
• Types of Class Politics– Unconstitutional• Maoist Insurgencies• Naxalites – Naxalbari Movement• In 2006 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called the
Naxalites "The single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country”.
Naxalbari Movement
Naxalbari MovementMay 1967
“Seizure of power through an agrarian revolution”.
Charu Mazumar
Peasants of Naxalbari
Contemporary global context:Liberation struggle of VietnamCivil rights and anti-war movements in the USAStudents' agitations in Western EuropeChe Guevara's self-sacrifice in the jungles of BoliviaChina’s Cultural Revolution
“India is losing the battle against Maoist rebels”Prime Minister Manmonhan Singh, 2009
Let’s think together…• How would you describe the political positions of three
speakers in the news report? Are they necessarily in conflict, or do the three speakers represent different coordinates of a functioning democracy?
• If we are willing to grant that India is a functioning democracy, then what would we classify as a malfunction?
• Are the Naxalites an expression of the failure of democracy?
• Can the government’s response be classified as authoritarian?
• What is the difference between democratic and authoritarian modes of governmental response?