1st Edition
Democracy and Unity in India Understanding the All India Phenomenon, 1940-1960
By Emily Rook-Koepsel
Copyright 2019
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book analyzes the ways in which organizations and individuals in India grappled with and contested definitions of democracy and unity in the decades directly preceding and following independent Indian statehood. The All India Scheduled Castes Federation and the All India Women’s Conference are used as case studies to explore Indian Dalit and women activists’ attempts to... Read more
1. Introduction: Unity, Democracy, and the All India Phenomenon 2. Naming Castes Politics in Indian Unity 3. Democracy, Voice, Principle: The Affective Politics of the All India Scheduled Castes Federation 4. All Indian Women: Citizenship Politics of the All India Women’s Conference 5. Conclusion: All India Ghosts of Unity and Democracy
Biography
Emily Rook-Koepsel is the Assistant Director of Academic Affairs at the Asian Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Her most recent articles consider the link between state violence, public order, and dissent in India.
