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Class in India

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 .

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Class in India

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  1. Class in India Politics of India Gov 1255 Prof Prerna Singh

  2. Class • What is Class? • Class & Politics • Types of Class Politics

  3. What is Class? • Pervasive force in all societies • Social Identity + Economic concept • Controversial • Return to Karl Marx’s classic formulation

  4. 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

  5. Class & Politics • Types of Class Politics • Constitutional • Unconstitutional

  6. Class & Politics • Types of Class Politics • Constitutional • Left political parties, Associations such as trade unions, Movements, Demonstrations. • Unconstitutional • Armed uprisings, Insurgencies, Rebellions

  7. Class & Politics • Types of Class Politics • Constitutional • Unconstitutional Agrarian

  8. Class & Politics • Types of Class Politics • Constitutional • Unconstitutional Land Agrarian Prices & Subsidies

  9. Class & Politics • Types of Class Politics • Constitutional • Left political parties: Kerala & West Bengal

  10. Class & Politics • Types of Class Politics • Constitutional • Left political parties: Kerala & West Bengal MANALI DESAI: Class-based Movement PATRICK HELLER: Class-based Associational Life

  11. Class & Politics • Types of Class Politics • Constitutional • Left political parties: Kerala & West Bengal MANALI DESAI: Class-based Movement PATRICK HELLER: Class-based Associational Life

  12. Class & Politics • Types of Class Politics • Unconstitutional

  13. versus

  14. 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”.

  15. Naxalbari Movement

  16. Naxalbari MovementMay 1967 Peasants of Naxalbari CharuMazumar “Seizure of power through an agrarian revolution”. Contemporary global context: Liberation struggle of Vietnam Civil rights and anti-war movements in the USA Students' agitations in Western Europe Che Guevara's self-sacrifice in the jungles of Bolivia China’s Cultural Revolution

  17. “India is losing the battle against Maoist rebels”Prime Minister Manmonhan Singh, 2009

  18. 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?

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