Passive revolution in West Bengal : 1977/2011 /

Passive revolution in West Bengal : 1977/2011 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Samāddāra, Raṇabīra, author.
Imprint:	Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications India Pvt. Ltd, 2013 ©2013
Description:	1 online resource (xxv, 240 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Labor policy -- India -- West Bengal -- History. Labor unions -- India -- West Bengal -- History. Labor policy. Labor unions. Politics and government. Social conditions. West Bengal (India) -- Social conditions -- 20th century. West Bengal (India) -- Social conditions -- 21st century. West Bengal (India) -- Politics and government -- 20th century. West Bengal (India) -- Politics and government -- 21st century. India -- West Bengal. History. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11189132

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ISBN:	9788132113294 8132113292 9781299585096 1299585094 9788132110941 8132110943
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index Description based on print version record
Summary:	In the wake of the enormous interest across the globe in the fall of the Left Front in West Bengal, this book describes the Left era as one of passive revolution: limited reforms and changes, big compromises, corruption of the commissars and the failure of the Left in assessing popular discontent and anger; thus, it is the end of revolution even in passive form. A collection of articles by Samaddar from leading national dailies and journals between 1977 and the downfall of the Left in West Bengal, this books analyses the era of the Left rule, its political decisions and its social and economic viability. Samaddar argues that the Left's rule and its own governmental style destroyed the hegemony it had built up through assiduous work of decades. A commentary on contemporary history and an assessment of it, this work helps the reader understand, better, the re-emergence of the Maoist movement in West Bengal, the governmental techniques of the Left and the dynamics of popular politics
Other form:	Print version: Samāddāra, Raṇabīra. Passive revolution in West Bengal. Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications India Pvt. Ltd, 2013 9788132110941

Table of Contents:

A decade of strike by capital
A dying metropolis
Does the left front favour the urban elite?
Environment and employment : will the trade unions and greens join hands?
The tannery workers of Tangra
Lessons of Ayodhya : has the left lost its vision?
The new right and the new left
Party, mass organizations, and mass movements
More on party and mass organization
Votes and populism
Who is afraid of the migrants in Bengal?
A library and an institution
Hunger and the politics of life
Rajarhat : an urban dystopia
Dialogue and growth
All die, but all do not die equally
Chronicles of the ranks
The fast emerging power vacuum
Civil society and the politics of a society
Is Bengal's restless spirit in decline?
Claim making in the age of bio-politics
That was revolt, this is civil war
Elections in the time of a civil war
Populism and peace
Different ways of truth telling
The idea of a front
Elections and expanding our representative system
Spring time in Bengal
Their civil society, our civil society
Stocktaking midway through the war
Transitional challenges
Governing the multitude/i
Governing the multitude
How to prevent a telengana type situation in West Bengal
The challenge of building a non-corporate path of development
A suggestion on Bengal's economic woes
A square leading to many unknown destinations
Early but inevitable errors in judgement
A violent history of peace
Political change is never for utopia
Knight riders in Kolkata
Eternal Bengal
"It does not die" : urban protest in Calcutta, 1987/2007