Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; 1. INCEPTION: GOVERNMENT AS PRACTICE; The making; Deepening government; Social government; Political government; Government as practice; Lineages of the 'crisis'; 'Retrieval' of the governmental left; Endnotes; 2. CONSOLIDATION: LAND REFORMS; Agrarian conditions; Landlord violence; Violations of law; Left promises; Political manoeuvring; Shifting priorities; Retrieving land; Recording barga; After reforms; Endnotes; 3. AGENCY: SCHOOL TEACHERS; Teachers as leaders; Organization above education; Political dependence
Grassroots transformationHierarchy and social distance; Bourdieu's diagnosis; Teachers' testimonies; Endnotes; 4. MACHINERY: PARTY SOCIETY; The idea; Political change; The crisis; Violations and violence; Superseding control; The aftermath; Endnotes; 5. IMPLOSION: SINGUR, NANDIGRAM; Troubled beginning; Two arguments; Common fallacies; Primitive accumulation; Capital's past?; One-off episode; Ongoing process; 'Passive revolution', India; Postcolonial economic; Universal/local; 'Different universal'; State of industry; Contestations; Seeds of protest; Intensification; Claims, counter-claims
Nandigram imbroglioDivided heads; Flawed analytics; Endnotes; APPENDIX I: THE LEFT THROUGH ELECTIONS; APPENDIX II: LOCAL GOVERNANCE AND ELECTABILITY; Endnotes; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary
This book situates 'government as practice' as a prism for critical thinking on democratic politics in postcolonial India
