introduction to popular struggle in india at present
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The following set of articles, entitled “People’s Struggles in India,” documents a variety of facets of social movements in India. The movements are set in different regional contexts – the militarized Northeast of India, urban spaces, forests and coastal areas – and document several kinds of processes – a trade union movement, radical street theatre, working class people’s organisations and middle class environmentalism amongst others. They are meant as a reflection of the plurality of struggles in India.
The largest group of articles presented here has a common theme of ‘development’-induced displacement. On the one hand, this reflects the centrality of the issue in present times and the commonality of experience ; on the other hand, the articles show the different positions within such a critique, in terms of how the central problem is posited as well as what strategies are adopted to counter it. Such differences reflect the plurality of realities of these movements and the vibrancy of their struggles.
The largest group of articles presented here has a common theme of ‘development’-induced displacement. On the one hand, this reflects the centrality of the issue in present times and the commonality of experience ; on the other hand, the articles show the different positions within such a critique, in terms of how the central problem is posited as well as what strategies are adopted to counter it. Such differences reflect the plurality of realities of these movements and the vibrancy of their struggles.
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