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Field Notes on Democracy : Listening to Grasshoppers

By: Publication details: UK; Haymarket Books; 2015Description: 230 Pages; PaperbackISBN:
  • 9781608464616
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.954
Summary: This series of essays examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India. It looks closely at how religious majoritarianism, cultural nationalism, and neo-fascism simmer just under the surface of a country that projects itself as the world's largest democracy. She describes the systematic marginalization of religious and ethnic minorities, the rise of terrorism, and the massive scale of displacement and dispossession of the poor by predatory corporations. Field Notes on Democracy tracks the fault-lines that threaten to destroy India's precarious democracy and send shockwaves through the region and beyond.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Karachi Society and Politics 320.95 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Damaged PKLC014659
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Lahore Society and Politics 320.954 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Lost PKLC014643
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This series of essays examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India. It looks closely at how religious majoritarianism, cultural nationalism, and neo-fascism simmer just under the surface of a country that projects itself as the world's largest democracy. She describes the systematic marginalization of religious and ethnic minorities, the rise of terrorism, and the massive scale of displacement and dispossession of the poor by predatory corporations. Field Notes on Democracy tracks the fault-lines that threaten to destroy India's precarious democracy and send shockwaves through the region and beyond.

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