Class in India
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Class in India
Politics of IndiaGov 1255
Prof Prerna Singh
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Class
• What is Class?
• Class & Politics– Types of Class Politics
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What is Class?
• Pervasive force in all societies• Social Identity + Economic concept• Controversial • Return to Karl Marx’s classic formulation
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Class & Politics
Fundamental question: What can be done to improve one's life
chances? What can be done to improve the life chances
of the subordinate classes?
Focus on Social & Economic Justice
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Class & Politics
• Types of Class Politics
– Constitutional
– Unconstitutional
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Class & Politics
• Types of Class Politics
– Constitutional• Left political parties, Associations such as trade unions,
Movements, Demonstrations.
– Unconstitutional • Armed uprisings, Insurgencies, Rebellions
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Class & Politics
• Types of Class Politics
– Constitutional
– Unconstitutional Agrarian
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Class & Politics
• Types of Class Politics
– Constitutional
– Unconstitutional Agrarian
Land
Prices & Subsidies
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Class & Politics
• Types of Class Politics
– Constitutional• Left political parties: Kerala & West Bengal
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Class & Politics
• Types of Class Politics
– Constitutional• Left political parties: Kerala & West Bengal
MANALI DESAI: Class-based Movement
PATRICK HELLER: Class-based Associational Life
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Class & Politics
• Types of Class Politics
– Constitutional• Left political parties: Kerala & West Bengal
MANALI DESAI: Class-based Movement
PATRICK HELLER: Class-based Associational Life
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Class & Politics
• Types of Class Politics
– Unconstitutional
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versus
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Class & Politics
• Types of Class Politics– Unconstitutional• Maoist Insurgencies• Naxalites – Naxalbari Movement• In 2006 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called the
Naxalites "The single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country”.
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Naxalbari Movement
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Naxalbari MovementMay 1967
“Seizure of power through an agrarian revolution”.
Charu Mazumar
Peasants of Naxalbari
Contemporary global context:Liberation struggle of VietnamCivil rights and anti-war movements in the USAStudents' agitations in Western EuropeChe Guevara's self-sacrifice in the jungles of BoliviaChina’s Cultural Revolution
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“India is losing the battle against Maoist rebels”Prime Minister Manmonhan Singh, 2009
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Let’s think together…• How would you describe the political positions of three
speakers in the news report? Are they necessarily in conflict, or do the three speakers represent different coordinates of a functioning democracy?
• If we are willing to grant that India is a functioning democracy, then what would we classify as a malfunction?
• Are the Naxalites an expression of the failure of democracy?
• Can the government’s response be classified as authoritarian?
• What is the difference between democratic and authoritarian modes of governmental response?