Introduction
Part I : setting the scene: consolidation left radicalism in India
Chapter 1: socio-economic contexts of left radicalism
Chapter 2: constituents of left radicalism
Part II: Parliamentary Left in India: articulating social democracy as a universal theoretical design
Chapter3: Parliamentary Left in Tripura: social democracy in a new mould
Chapter 4: Parliamentary Left in West Bengal: the rise and fall of a hegemonic regime
Chapter 5: Parliamentary Left in Kerala : redesigning parliamentary democracy amidst ideological elasticity
Part III: Left-Wing Extremism in India: an indigenous endeavour at ideological innovation (?)
Chapter 6: Historical Roots and gradual consolidation of the Maoist left radicalism
Chapter 7: Left Wing Radicalism in practice in Orissa: a field-based analysis
Conclusion
Biography
Bidyut Chakrabarty is Professor in Political Science, University of Delhi, India. His publications include Corporate Social Responsibility (Routledge 2011), Maoism in India (Routledge 2010), Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi (Routledge 2006), and Indian Society and Politics (Routledge 2008).
