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Rawat Publications Social Movements and the State in India Deepening Democracy by Nielsen Kenneth Bo & Alf Gunvald Nilsen
1. Social Movements, State Formation and Democracy in India: An Introduction / Alf Gunvald Nilsen and Kenneth Bo Nielsen 2. The Slow-Motion Counterrevolution: Developmental Contradictions and the Emergence of Neoliberalism / Radhika Desai 3. The Politics of Caste and the Deepening of India's Democracy: The Case of the Backward Caste Movement in Bihar / Jeffrey Witsoe 4. Transnational Dalit Feminists In Between the Indian State, the UN and the Global Justice Movement / Eva-Maria Hardtmann 5. Feminist Efforts to Democratize Democracy: Insights from Four Decades of Activism in India / Manisha Desai 6. Women Workers, Collective Action and the “Right to Work” in Madhya Pradesh / Nandini Nayak 7. Turbid Transparency: Retelling the Story of the Right to Information Act in India / Prashant Sharma 8. Rights-Based Legislation in Practice: A View from Southern Orissa / Minati Dash 9. Re-making Labour in India: State Policy, Corporate Power and Labour Movement Mobilisation / Michael Gillan 10. Blind Alleys and Red Herrings? Social Movements, the State, Class Alliances and Pro-Labouring Class Strategy / Jonathan Pattenden 11. Disappearing Landlords and the Unmaking of Revolution: Maoist Mobilization, the State and Agrarian Change in Northern Telangana / Jostein Jakobsen 12. Conclusion / Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Alf Gunvald Nielsen