Social movements, media and civil society in contemporary India : historical trajectories of public protest and political mobilisation / Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, Manas Dutta, Tirthankar Ghosh.
Purakayastha, Anindya Sekhar, author.; Dutta, Manas, author.; Ghosh, Tirthankar, author.
2022
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Title Social movements, media and civil society in contemporary India : historical trajectories of public protest and political mobilisation / Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, Manas Dutta, Tirthankar Ghosh.
Author Purakayastha, Anindya Sekhar, author.
ISBN 9783030940409 (electronic bk.)
3030940403 (electronic bk.)
9783030940393
303094039X
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94040-9
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 203 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-94040-9 doi
Call Number HN683.5
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.0954
Summary This book examines instances of transformative dissent, turning points or shifts in popular mobilisation patterns in contemporary India, while adopting a historical approach and analysing past events. Exploring the different continuities and discontinuities in mobilising patterns and dissident agency in India, the authors present a heterogeneous insurrectional pattern that pivoted around issues of caste, class, religion, land reform, labour, taxation and territorial control, with anti-colonialism movements becoming prominent in the first half of the twentieth century. The authors move beyond this to explore more recent templates of mobilisation which surfaced towards the end of the twentieth century, during Indias liberalisation period. With growing marketisation and technological advancement, unprecedented changes in social relations, growing economic opportunities and cultural transfusion taking place, the country became a New India - one which aspired to be a global player in the wider technological public sphere. Tracing the historical trajectories of social movements in India, this book examines recent trends in digitised dissidence and explores new frontiers of protests, providing fresh insights for those researching the history of social movements, South Asian and Indian history and postcolonial studies. Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha is Professor in the Department of English and Coordinator in the Centre for Critical Social Inquiry at Kazi Nazrul University in India. Previously, he was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in the USA. He works on postcolonial violence and literary cultural responses. He co-edits Kairos, the journal of the Postcolonial Studies Association of the Global South. Manas Dutta is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Aliah University in India, and his current area of research covers issues related to war and conflict in South Asia, with a special focus on civil-military relations in the Global South. In 2018, Manas was a Fellow in the Institute of Critical Social Inquiry at the New School for Social Research, USA. Tirthankar Ghosh is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Kazi Nazrul University in India. His areas of specialisation are the social history of disaster, the ecological and environmental history of India, the economic history of India and social and political movements in colonial and post-colonial India.
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Ghosh, Tirthankar, author.
Series Palgrave studies in the history of social movements.
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Intro
Series Editors' Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
1 Introduction: Past Dissidence and Contemporary Cyber-Publics-Popular Protests in India
Info-Publics and Public Sphere Debates, New Mobilizations
Changing Dynamics and Digital Activism
New Public Arena: WhatsApp University, Troll Army
Twitter Space, Social Media and New Political Activism
Transformation in Social Movements
Protest Publics, Counterpublics: Anti-Corruption and Shahbag Protests
The Darker Side: New India as the Malevolent Republic
Tele-Publics and 'Presstitutes'

Million Mutinies, Participatory Democracy: History and the Current Conjuncture
References
2 Historicizing Social Conflicts, Its Major Strands: Ancient, Colonial and Early Postcolonial India
Social Mobilizations in Ancient India
Historicizing Social Movements in India
Popular/Peasant Revolts in Ancient and Early Medieval India
Kalabhra & Kaivarta Revolts
Bhakti as Social Protestantism in Medieval India
Peasants, Religion and Regional Revolts: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Colonial Legacies and Social Unrest in India: Genealogical Segments

Trajectories of Social Movements in Colonial India
Colonial Intrusions and Native Reactions
Introduction of English and Social Reactions
'Reactions' and 'Progress': Reform Movements
Various Phases
Battling with Orthodoxy: Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Brahmo Samaj
Indian National Congress and Social Mobilization
Constitutional Reforms, Public Awakenings
Gandhian Phase and Social Mobilizations
Bhim Rao Ambedkar and Annihilation of Caste
Communal and Subaltern Class Mobilizations
Women and Social Mobilization
Diverse Trajectories of Protests in Postcolonial India

Movements on Food and Land Rights in the 1960s
Ecology and Resistance Movements
References
3 Second Democratic Upsurge, Liberalization and New India: Post-1970s Socio-Political Mobilizations
Introduction
Diverse Trajectories of Socio-Politico Mobilizations in Postcolonial India
The Formative Periods
Congress Hegemony: 1950s-1960s
Transition Phase: The 1970s to 1980s
First Democratic Upsurge
Period of Uncertainty: Emergency Rule and Its Implications
Second Democratic Upsurge
Mandal-Kamandal: Social Justice and Mass Mobilization
References

4 Semiology and Simulacrum: Post-1990s and Virtual Transformation of Popular Dissent
Indian Ecumene
Television and the Changing Civil-Political Matrix in India
Democracy, Argumentative Tradition, Audio-Visual Public Sphere
Media, Dalit-Minority and Majoritarian Politics in India
Television and Hindu Nationalism
Postcolonial Public Sphere and New social Movements
References
5 New Grammar of Protests in Contemporary India: Few Case Studies
New Templates, Newer Instances of Protests
Gender, Civil Society and the Nirbhaya Movement in India

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