Politics From Below - Essays on Subalternity and Resistance in India

This book is a collection of essays that question how subalternity is constituted and contested in Indian society.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Theorizing Subaltern Politics
1. Autonomous Domains or Relational Practices? Power and Resistance in Colonial and Postcolonial India
2. For a Historical Sociology of State-Society Relations in the Study of Subaltern Politics
Part II: Popular Struggles in Contemporary India
3. Against the Current, from Below: Resisting Dispossession in the Narmada Valley
4. Subaltern Resistance in the Bhil Heartland: Historical Trajectories and Contemporary Scenarios
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Alf Gunvald Nilsen is Associate Professor in the Department of Global Development and Planning at the University of Agder and Research Associate in the Society, Work and Development Institute at the University of Witwatersrand.

Product details

• Authors: Alf Gunvald Nilsen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032666785
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3266678-5
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, Cultural Studies, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Regional Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / International studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies