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Power and Contestation: India since 1989

	Power And Contestation: India Since 1989 by Nivedita Menon And Aditya Nigam
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The year1989 marks the unraveling of India’s “Nehruvian Consensus” of a modern, secular nation with a self-reliant economy.

Caste and religion have come to play major roles in national politics. Global economic integration has led to conflict between the state and dispossessed people, but processes of globalization have also enabled new spaces for political assertion, such as around sexuality. Older challenges to the state continue in Kashmir and the North-East, while Maoist insurgency has deepened its bases. In a world of American Empire, India as a nuclear power has abandoned non-alignment, a shift that is contested by voices within.

Power and Contestation shows that the turbulence and turmoil of this period are signs of India’s continued vibrancy and democracy. The book is an ideal introduction to the complex internal histories and external power relations of a major global player in the new century.
ISBN - 9788125035091

Pages : 234