Violence, agrarian radicalism and electoral politics
Reflections on the Indian people's front
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2159018 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Walter Hauser (0000-0002-3742-729X, University of Virginia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 85-126 |
| Publication date | 1993-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Peasant Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0306-6150 • E-ISSN: 1743-9361 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03066159308438539 |
| OpenAlex | W2005615722 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 16 |
I am concerned here with the political responses of peasants on the social and economic margin and of agricultural labourers. The argument is that there is in India a vital and dynamic peasant activism happening at many levels of social and economic interest including among the rural poor. I want to understand these phenomena in Indian terms and in local terms, in other words, what is happening in the fields and villages where most Indians live. This raises the fundamental issue of the language or idiom in which agrarian politics, that is the politics of dissent, is expressed and the equally important question of who is listening and what is or is not being done in response. I develop these ideas around the experience of the Indian People's Front in the last decade, specifically in Bihar, while focussing on the arena of electoral politics which the IPF entered seriously in 1989
Agrarian society · Agriculture · Argument (complex analysis · Development economics · Dissent · Economics · Front (military · Geography · Happening · Peasant · Political economy · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · History · Indian History and Philosophy · Law
From Peasant Soldiering to Peasant Activism
Contesting Consensus. Disputing Inequality
The Housing Question , ground rent theory, and differentiation vs. homogenization
Utopia in Crisis? Subaltern Imaginations in Contemporary Bihar
Seeing the State
Indian Environmentalism and the Question of the State
Equality against hierarchy
Is bonded labour a bound category? -Reconceptualising agrarian conflict in India
Reserve labor, unreserved politics
Reinventing revolution
Democracy and Discontent
Ambedkar and Dalit Labor Radicalism
Theorists of the peasantry should at least have their feet on the ground
An interview with Dev Nathan
The “New peasant movement” in India
Shamans, Savages and the Wilderness
Political Theology
Bonded Histories
The State of Bihar
Subaltern Studies I. Writings on South Asian History and Society
Untouchable! Voices of the Dalit Liberation Movement
As Untouchable as Himself
The Untouchables in Contemporary India
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2021 (27) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |