Title Social movements, media and civil society in contemporary India : historical trajectories of public protest and political mobilisation / Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, Manas Dutta, Tirthankar Ghosh

Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 203 pages) : illustrations (some color) Series Palgrave studies in the history of social movements Palgrave studies in the history of social movements. Contents Intro -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Past Dissidence and Contemporary Cyber-Publics-Popular Protests in India -- Info-Publics and Public Sphere Debates, New Mobilizations -- Changing Dynamics and Digital Activism -- New Public Arena: WhatsApp University, Troll Army -- Twitter Space, Social Media and New Political Activism -- Transformation in Social Movements -- Protest Publics, Counterpublics: Anti-Corruption and Shahbag Protests -- The Darker Side: New India as the Malevolent Republic -- Tele-Publics and 'Presstitutes' Million Mutinies, Participatory Democracy: History and the Current Conjuncture -- References -- 2 Historicizing Social Conflicts, Its Major Strands: Ancient, Colonial and Early Postcolonial India -- Social Mobilizations in Ancient India -- Historicizing Social Movements in India -- Popular/Peasant Revolts in Ancient and Early Medieval India -- Kalabhra & Kaivarta Revolts -- Bhakti as Social Protestantism in Medieval India -- Peasants, Religion and Regional Revolts: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- Colonial Legacies and Social Unrest in India: Genealogical Segments Trajectories of Social Movements in Colonial India -- Colonial Intrusions and Native Reactions -- Introduction of English and Social Reactions -- 'Reactions' and 'Progress': Reform Movements -- Various Phases -- Battling with Orthodoxy: Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Brahmo Samaj -- Indian National Congress and Social Mobilization -- Constitutional Reforms, Public Awakenings -- Gandhian Phase and Social Mobilizations -- Bhim Rao Ambedkar and Annihilation of Caste -- Communal and Subaltern Class Mobilizations -- Women and Social Mobilization -- Diverse Trajectories of Protests in Postcolonial India Movements on Food and Land Rights in the 1960s -- Ecology and Resistance Movements -- References -- 3 Second Democratic Upsurge, Liberalization and New India: Post-1970s Socio-Political Mobilizations -- Introduction -- Diverse Trajectories of Socio-Politico Mobilizations in Postcolonial India -- The Formative Periods -- Congress Hegemony: 1950s-1960s -- Transition Phase: The 1970s to 1980s -- First Democratic Upsurge -- Period of Uncertainty: Emergency Rule and Its Implications -- Second Democratic Upsurge -- Mandal-Kamandal: Social Justice and Mass Mobilization -- References 4 Semiology and Simulacrum: Post-1990s and Virtual Transformation of Popular Dissent -- Indian Ecumene -- Television and the Changing Civil-Political Matrix in India -- Democracy, Argumentative Tradition, Audio-Visual Public Sphere -- Media, Dalit-Minority and Majoritarian Politics in India -- Television and Hindu Nationalism -- Postcolonial Public Sphere and New social Movements -- References -- 5 New Grammar of Protests in Contemporary India: Few Case Studies -- New Templates, Newer Instances of Protests -- Gender, Civil Society and the Nirbhaya Movement in India Summary This book examines instances of transformative dissent, turning points or shifts in popular mobilisation patterns in contemporary India, while adopting a historical approach and analysing past events. Exploring the different continuities and discontinuities in mobilising patterns and dissident agency in India, the authors present a heterogeneous insurrectional pattern that pivoted around issues of caste, class, religion, land reform, labour, taxation and territorial control, with anti-colonialism movements becoming prominent in the first half of the twentieth century. The authors move beyond this to explore more recent templates of mobilisation which surfaced towards the end of the twentieth century, during Indias liberalisation period. With growing marketisation and technological advancement, unprecedented changes in social relations, growing economic opportunities and cultural transfusion taking place, the country became a New India - one which aspired to be a global player in the wider technological public sphere. Tracing the historical trajectories of social movements in India, this book examines recent trends in digitised dissidence and explores new frontiers of protests, providing fresh insights for those researching the history of social movements, South Asian and Indian history and postcolonial studies. Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha is Professor in the Department of English and Coordinator in the Centre for Critical Social Inquiry at Kazi Nazrul University in India. Previously, he was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in the USA. He works on postcolonial violence and literary cultural responses. He co-edits Kairos, the journal of the Postcolonial Studies Association of the Global South. Manas Dutta is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Aliah University in India, and his current area of research covers issues related to war and conflict in South Asia, with a special focus on civil-military relations in the Global South. In 2018, Manas was a Fellow in the Institute of Critical Social Inquiry at the New School for Social Research, USA. Tirthankar Ghosh is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Kazi Nazrul University in India. His areas of specialisation are the social history of disaster, the ecological and environmental history of India, the economic history of India and social and political movements in colonial and post-colonial India Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 19, 2022) Subject Social movements -- India -- History Mass media -- Social aspects -- India Mass media -- Social aspects Politics and government Social movements SUBJECT India -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064905 India -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064936 Subject India Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Dutta, Manas, author. Ghosh, Tirthankar, author. ISBN 9783030940409 3030940403

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