Passive revolution in West Bengal: 1977/2011/ (Record no. 199973)
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| fixed length control field | 00442nam a2200133Ia 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9788132115632 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | Department of Social Science |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Samaddar, Ranabir |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Passive revolution in West Bengal: 1977/2011/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Ranabir Samaddar. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Los Angeles: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | SAGE Publications India Pvt. Ltd., |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2013. |
| 300 ## - DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xxv, 240 pages ; 23 cm |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction: writing the history of contemporary Bengal -- Section one : Capital, labour and politics. 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 -- Section two : New issues, new perspectives. 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? -- Section three : Contentious politics. 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 -- Section four : Messy change. Transitional challenges -- Governing the multitude : I -- Governing the multitude : II -- 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 -- Section five : Perennial themes -- Eternal Bengal -- "It does not die" : urban protest in Calcutta, 1987/2007 -- Section six : Postscript. The epoch of passive revolution. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Social Science |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | West Bengal (India) -- Social conditions -- 20th century. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | West Bengal (India) -- Social conditions -- 21st century. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Passive resistance -- India -- West Bengal. |
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| Keyword | Labor policy -- India -- West Bengal -- History. |
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| Keyword | Politics and government. |
| 856 ## - ONLINE RESOURCES | |
| url | https://evidya.sagepub.in/library/passive-revolution-in-west-bengal?bookId=2557&siteName=evidya |
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| Koha item type | e-Books |
| Home library | Current library | Accession number | Koha item type |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | E-1197 | e-Books |