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Social Movements, Media and Civil Society in Contemporary India

Historical Trajectories of Public Protest and Political Mobilisation

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Authors:
  1. Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha

    1. Department of English, Center for Critical Social Inquiry, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, India

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  2. Manas Dutta

    1. Department of History, Aliah University, Kolkata, India

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  3. Tirthankar Ghosh

    1. Department of History, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, India

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  • Combines the study of contemporary trends with historical legacies of social movements in India
  • Caters to the emerging field of humanities by exploring social and audio-visual media as tools social protest
  • Offers fresh insights on public sphere studies and post-colonialism in India

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements (PSHSM)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Past Dissidence and Contemporary Cyber-Publics—Popular Protests in India

    • Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, Manas Dutta, Tirthankar Ghosh
    Pages 1-31

  3. Historicizing Social Conflicts, Its Major Strands: Ancient, Colonial and Early Postcolonial India

    • Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, Manas Dutta, Tirthankar Ghosh
    Pages 33-77

  4. Second Democratic Upsurge, Liberalization and New India: Post-1970s Socio-Political Mobilizations

    • Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, Manas Dutta, Tirthankar Ghosh
    Pages 79-105

  5. Semiology and Simulacrum: Post-1990s and Virtual Transformation of Popular Dissent

    • Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, Manas Dutta, Tirthankar Ghosh
    Pages 107-137

  6. New Grammar of Protests in Contemporary India: Few Case Studies

    • Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, Manas Dutta, Tirthankar Ghosh
    Pages 139-177

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 179-203
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About this book

This book examines instances of transformative dissent, turning points or shifts in popular mobilisation patterns in contemporary India, while adopting a historical approach and analysing past events. Exploring the different continuities and discontinuities in mobilising patterns and dissident agency in India, the authors present a heterogeneous insurrectional pattern that pivoted around issues of caste, class, religion, land reform, labour, taxation and territorial control, with anti-colonialism movements becoming prominent in the first half of the twentieth century. The authors move beyond this to explore more recent templates of mobilisation which surfaced towards the end of the twentieth century, during India’s liberalisation period. With growing marketisation and technological advancement, unprecedented changes in social relations, growing economic opportunities and cultural transfusion taking place, the country became a ‘New India’ - one which aspired to be a global player in the wider technological public sphere. Tracing the historical trajectories of social movements in India, this book examines recent trends in digitised dissidence and explores new frontiers of protests, providing fresh insights for those researching the history of social movements, South Asian and Indian history and postcolonial studies.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of English, Center for Critical Social Inquiry, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, India

    Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha

  • Department of History, Aliah University, Kolkata, India

    Manas Dutta

  • Department of History, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, India

    Tirthankar Ghosh

About the authors

Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha is Professor in the Department of English and Coordinator in the Centre for Critical Social Inquiry at Kazi Nazrul University in India. Previously, he was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in the USA. He works on postcolonial violence and literary cultural responses. He co-edits Kairos, the journal of the Postcolonial Studies Association of the Global South. 

Manas Dutta is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Aliah University in India, and his current area of research covers issues related to war and conflict in South Asia, with a special focus on civil-military relations in the Global South. In 2018, Manas was a Fellow in the Institute of Critical Social Inquiry at the New School for Social Research, USA. 

Tirthankar Ghosh is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Kazi Nazrul University in India. His areas of specialisation are the social history of disaster, the ecological and environmental history of India, the economic history of India and social and political movements in colonial and post-colonial India

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Social Movements, Media and Civil Society in Contemporary India

  • Book Subtitle: Historical Trajectories of Public Protest and Political Mobilisation

  • Authors: Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, Manas Dutta, Tirthankar Ghosh

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94040-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94039-3Published: 11 August 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94042-3Published: 12 August 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-94040-9Published: 09 August 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2634-6559

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6567

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 203

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Social History, History of South Asia, Imperialism and Colonialism, Media and Communication, Political History, History of Technology

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