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      Left Radicalism in India
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      Left Radicalism in India

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      Left Radicalism in India book

      ByBidyut Chakrabarty
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2014
      eBook Published 18 November 2014
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315768977
      Pages 262
      eBook ISBN 9781315768977
      Subjects Area Studies, Politics & International Relations
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      Chakrabarty, B. (2014). Left Radicalism in India (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315768977

      ABSTRACT

      Left radicalism in India was rooted in the nationalist movement and was set in motion in the 1920s with the formation of the communist party. The communist movement manifested itself differently in each phase of India’s political history and Communism continues to remain a meaningful alternative ideological discourse in India.

      This book examines left politics in India focusing on its rise, consolidation and relative decline in the present century. Left radicalism in India is a distinct ideological phenomenon which is articulated in two complementary ways: while the parliamentary left remains social democratic in character, its bête noire, the left wing extremists, continue to uphold the classical Marxist, Leninist and Maoist notion of violent revolution. By concentrating on the nature and also activities of these two versions of left radicalism, this book is a thorough study of the phenomenon. The author analyses the states of Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura and presents a variety of case studies of communist movements. He argues that the political power of the left parties depends on the degree to which they have built organizational strength, political hegemony and a broad social base through legal and extra-parliamentary struggles.

      An in-depth study of socio-economic circumstances that remain critical in conceptualizing radical extremism, Left Radicalism in India will be of interest to those studying Indian Politics, South Asian History, Development Studies and Global Politics.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |22 pages

      Introduction

      part |2 pages

      Part I Setting the scene: consolidation of left radicalism in India

      chapter 1|23 pages

      Socio- economic contexts of left radicalism in India

      chapter 2|33 pages

      Constituents of left radicalism in India

      part |4 pages

      Part II Parliamentary left in India: articulating social democracy as a universal theoretical design

      chapter 3|15 pages

      Parliamentary left in Tripura: social democracy in a new mould

      chapter 4|33 pages

      Parliamentary left in West Bengal: the rise and fall of a hegemonic regime

      chapter 5|28 pages

      Parliamentary left in Kerala: redesigning parliamentary democracy amidst ideological elasticity

      part |2 pages

      Left- wing extremism in India: an indigenous endeavour at ideological innovation(?)

      chapter 6|24 pages

      Historical roots and gradual consolidation of the Maoist left radicalism

      chapter 7|28 pages

      Left- wing radicalism in practice in Orissa: a field- based analysis

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