Power and contestation : India since 1989 / Nivedita Menon and Aditya Nigam
Material type: TextSeries: Global history of the presentPublication details: India Bloomsbury 2022Description: 219pISBN:- 9789356401891
- 954.052 MEN-N
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1989 marks the unravelling of India's 'Nehruvian Consensus' around the idea 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 idea of India continue from movements in Kashmir and the Northeast, while Maoist insurgency has deepened its bases. In the world of the American Empire, India was a nuclear power
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