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This chapter attempts to unpack various modes of political engagements - which takes place on an ... more This chapter attempts to unpack various modes of political engagements - which takes place on an everyday basis in any given 'modern' society. And further it forwards an argument to make sense of social movement scholarship in general and underlines the noticeable difference between the ‘old’ and ‘new’ social movement theories in particular. In the latter sections, it discusses various social movement stories, which mirrors the post-colonial Indian society’s interactions with various democratic ideals, i.e. people’s rights, human rights, social justice, freedom of associations, public space, freedom of speech, and civil society – in short people’s appropriations of such ideals which fill the content of Indian version of social movement discourse. In short, this chapter seeks to engage the students of social science to understand the politically contentious social actions, which keeps occurring from time to time.
In pursuing the above task, it succeeded in linking the major theoretical underpinnings of social movement theories with the post independent India’s experience of social and political upheavals. ’; in doing so, this essay hopes to guide both the scholars and students alike in the pursuit of analyzing or studying the contexts or factual reasons behind different social movements i.e. Naxalite, peasants, and tribals, students, environmental and women movements etc. The latter half of the twentieth century witnessed an upsurge in mobilization and collective action in the different parts of the country, which continues to occur from time to time. In the early phases of independent India, social movements have had the markers of nation building characteristics, but towards the mid 1960s, the Indian society started to witness a broad array of social, political and economic concerns – differentially expressed at local, national levels. Such social churnings both at the local and national level, rightly actualized, what David Beetham once in a different context delineated that democracy “as method of government is not whatever the people at a given moment may happen to decide, but a set of arrangements for securing their control over the public decision-making process on an on-going basis.” The number of struggles launched by the poor and oppressed sections of society has increased during the last four decades (1970s – 2000s). Along with the detailed studies of some of the well known academic theories on ‘social movements’; this chapter sums up with a primary objective to help the students of social science and researchers and general readers alike and this essay could be used as an important source material to understand the social, economic and political contexts which seeded the different social movements in the independent India.
To measure social deficits, or to squint the status-quoits element in any under-developed societ... more To measure social deficits, or to squint the status-quoits element in any under-developed society SIGI model ought to help the researchers as an important methodological tool to find certain region-wise or religion/ritual based unequal gender balance in some developing societies, like that of ours. And, if this methodological tool as a social-cultural squinting process is applied in the future applied social science research and public policy inputs; it has got the potential to assist public policy experts, and technocrats undertake gender-balancing measures or gender budgeting interventions, while finalizing any under-class, under-represented or community based social welfare measures.
"The concept of civil society in India, (even as an attempt to establish civility) which gained p... more "The concept of civil society in India, (even as an attempt to establish civility) which gained public attention in the 1980s, was essentially seen as the opposite of despotism. Since then, it seems that it is not the ‘State’ but the ‘Society’ that has emerged as the driving wheel of the political history of India. Why has this shift occurred in the late 1980s in Indian political scenario?
The particular line of thinking that the author intends to pursue in this paper is shared by some other social scientists who have tried to define what is new in the new social movements: they are “the main route to shifting political action in civil society from the current condition of mainly isolated, local initiatives, easily ignored by the power structure and vulnerable to manipulation and co-option.
The document explores the various socio-economic factors, which were mainly the contributing factors for the civil societal intervention in the mid 1970s in India. The author also presents a case study, which makes a modest attempt to critically appraise the role of civil society in contemporary governance debate in India, in general, by studying the Mazdoor Kiasn Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), Rajasthan, in particular."
Conference Presentations by Bijaya Kumar Mohanty
Kalpaz Publications, New Delhi, 2016
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Book Reviews by Bijaya Kumar Mohanty
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In pursuing the above task, it succeeded in linking the major theoretical underpinnings of social movement theories with the post independent India’s experience of social and political upheavals. ’; in doing so, this essay hopes to guide both the scholars and students alike in the pursuit of analyzing or studying the contexts or factual reasons behind different social movements i.e. Naxalite, peasants, and tribals, students, environmental and women movements etc. The latter half of the twentieth century witnessed an upsurge in mobilization and collective action in the different parts of the country, which continues to occur from time to time. In the early phases of independent India, social movements have had the markers of nation building characteristics, but towards the mid 1960s, the Indian society started to witness a broad array of social, political and economic concerns – differentially expressed at local, national levels. Such social churnings both at the local and national level, rightly actualized, what David Beetham once in a different context delineated that democracy “as method of government is not whatever the people at a given moment may happen to decide, but a set of arrangements for securing their control over the public decision-making process on an on-going basis.” The number of struggles launched by the poor and oppressed sections of society has increased during the last four decades (1970s – 2000s). Along with the detailed studies of some of the well known academic theories on ‘social movements’; this chapter sums up with a primary objective to help the students of social science and researchers and general readers alike and this essay could be used as an important source material to understand the social, economic and political contexts which seeded the different social movements in the independent India.
The particular line of thinking that the author intends to pursue in this paper is shared by some other social scientists who have tried to define what is new in the new social movements: they are “the main route to shifting political action in civil society from the current condition of mainly isolated, local initiatives, easily ignored by the power structure and vulnerable to manipulation and co-option.
The document explores the various socio-economic factors, which were mainly the contributing factors for the civil societal intervention in the mid 1970s in India. The author also presents a case study, which makes a modest attempt to critically appraise the role of civil society in contemporary governance debate in India, in general, by studying the Mazdoor Kiasn Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), Rajasthan, in particular."
Conference Presentations by Bijaya Kumar Mohanty
Book Reviews by Bijaya Kumar Mohanty
In pursuing the above task, it succeeded in linking the major theoretical underpinnings of social movement theories with the post independent India’s experience of social and political upheavals. ’; in doing so, this essay hopes to guide both the scholars and students alike in the pursuit of analyzing or studying the contexts or factual reasons behind different social movements i.e. Naxalite, peasants, and tribals, students, environmental and women movements etc. The latter half of the twentieth century witnessed an upsurge in mobilization and collective action in the different parts of the country, which continues to occur from time to time. In the early phases of independent India, social movements have had the markers of nation building characteristics, but towards the mid 1960s, the Indian society started to witness a broad array of social, political and economic concerns – differentially expressed at local, national levels. Such social churnings both at the local and national level, rightly actualized, what David Beetham once in a different context delineated that democracy “as method of government is not whatever the people at a given moment may happen to decide, but a set of arrangements for securing their control over the public decision-making process on an on-going basis.” The number of struggles launched by the poor and oppressed sections of society has increased during the last four decades (1970s – 2000s). Along with the detailed studies of some of the well known academic theories on ‘social movements’; this chapter sums up with a primary objective to help the students of social science and researchers and general readers alike and this essay could be used as an important source material to understand the social, economic and political contexts which seeded the different social movements in the independent India.
The particular line of thinking that the author intends to pursue in this paper is shared by some other social scientists who have tried to define what is new in the new social movements: they are “the main route to shifting political action in civil society from the current condition of mainly isolated, local initiatives, easily ignored by the power structure and vulnerable to manipulation and co-option.
The document explores the various socio-economic factors, which were mainly the contributing factors for the civil societal intervention in the mid 1970s in India. The author also presents a case study, which makes a modest attempt to critically appraise the role of civil society in contemporary governance debate in India, in general, by studying the Mazdoor Kiasn Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), Rajasthan, in particular."