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Social Transformations and Revolutions: Reflections and Analyses
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SYSNO ASEP 0510697 Document Type M - Monograph Chapter R&D Document Type Monograph Chapter Title Hidden revolutionary processes in 1990s India? Author(s) Krejčík, Jiří (FLU-F) ORCID, SAI Source Title Social Transformations and Revolutions: Reflections and Analyses. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016 / Arnason J.P. ; Hrubec M. - ISBN 978-1-4744-1534-7 Pages s. 168-183 Number of pages 16 s. Number of pages 202 Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country GB - United Kingdom Keywords India ; passive revolution ; neo-liberalisation ; urban middle class ; nationalism Subject RIV AA - Philosophy ; Religion OECD category Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology Institutional support FLU-F - RVO:67985955 Annotation The chapter traces the changes both in Indian political system and political thinking coinciding with the fall of the Soviet Bloc in early 1990s. The transformation of the framework of class dominance, accompanied with emancipation of the backward classes and castes, altered the relation between the domains of civil and political societies in India. This revolutionary transformation led not only to the emergence of the new distinctive class culture among the urban middle classes, but even tilted the dominant political discourse towards seemingly paradoxical alliance of economic neo-liberalism and religious and cultural nationalism, articulated in the recent electoral successes of Narendra Modi’s BJP. With regards to these conditions, can we revive the Gramscian concept of passive revolution, scrapped by Sudipta Kaviraj in his classic essay almost thirty years ago? Workplace Institute of Philosophy Contact Chlumská Simona, chlumska@flu.cas.cz ; Tichá Zuzana, asep@flu.cas.cz Tel: 221 183 360 Year of Publishing 2020
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