Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: In the Beginning, There Was the Nehruvian State Raka Ray and Mary Fainsod Katzenstein
1 From Class Compromise to Class Accommodation: Labor'sIncorporation into the Indian Political Econo
2 Problems of Social Power and the Discourses of the Hindu Right Tanika Sarkar
3 Reinventing Public Power in the Age of Globalization: Decentralization and the Transformation of M
4 Feminism, Poverty, and the Emergent Social Order Mary E. John
5 Who Are The Country's Poor? Social Movement Politics and Dalit Poverty Gopal Guru and Anuradba Cha
6 Red in Tooth and Claw? Looking for Class in Strugglesover Nature Amita Baviskar
7 Farmer's Movements and the Debate on Poverty and Economic Reforms in India Gail Omvedt
8 Miracle Seeds, Suicide Seeds, and the Poor: GMOs, NGOs, Farmers and the State Ronald J. Herring
9 Strong States, Strong NGOs Neema Kudva
Archival Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors

Social movements have played a vital role in Indian politics since well before the inception of India as a new nation in 1947. During the Nehruvian era, poverty alleviation was a foundational standard against which policy proposals and political claims were measured; at this time, movement activism was directly accountable to this state discourse. In the first volume to focus on poverty and class in its analysis of social movements, a group of leading India scholars shows how social movements have had to change because poverty reduction no longer serves its earlier role as a political template. With distinctive chapters on gender, lower castes, environment, the Hindu Right, Kerala, labor, farmers, and biotechnology, Social Movements in India will be attractive to students and researchers in many different disciplines.