Radical Politics and Governance in India's North East: The Case of Tripura

ISBN-13: 9780367592240 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 252 str.

Harihar Bhattacharyya

Opis

This book examines the roots, nature, governmental performance, and theoretical and policy implications of left radicalism in Tripura. The case of Tripura is placed in comparison with her neighbours in the region, and in some cases with India’s advanced States in governance matters.

Spis treści

Introduction to Radical Politics and Governance in India’s North East 1. Marxism and the National/Ethnic Question: Theory and Practice in India 2. Ethnic Diversity and Ethnic Radicalism in India’s North East 3. Institutionalization of Ethnic Radicalism in India’s North East: Power-Sharing, Participation and Governance 4. Roots of Radical Politics in Tripura: Princely State; Demographic, Social and Economic Transformations 5. The Ethnic Radicalism in Tripura: Reang Rebellion 1943-45 and the birth of an ethnic identity 6. Origins of the Communist Movement in Tripura: Jana Mongal Samity, Jana Shiksha Samity and Paraja Mondal 7. Dialectics of Radical Ethnic Nationalism and Left Radicalism in Tripura, 1948-51: Communist influence over the Tribal Mass Mobilization 8. Radical Ethno-Nationalism in Tripura, 1948-50 9. Left Radicalism turned Parliamentary and Institutionalized in Tripura: Appropriation of Tribal Ethno-nationalism 10. The Rise and Decline of the TUJS in Tripura: Radical Ethnic Challenge to the Left 11. Marxists in Power in Tripura: Sub-State level Institutionalization of Tribal Identity 12. Marxists’ in Power in Tripura: Dilemmas of Governance in Tripura since the 1990s Conclusion

O autorze

Harihar Bhattacharyya is Professor of Political Science, University of Burdwan, India. He has published extensively on aspects of Indian political processes and institutions, comparative federalism, social exclusion, citizenship, ethnicity and nationhood. His recent publications by Routledge include Federalism in Asia: India, Pakistan and Malaysia (2010), The Politics of Social Exclusion in India: Democracy at the Crossroads (co-edited, 2010) and Globalization and Governance in India: New Challenges to Society and Institutions (co-edited, 2015).