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The Phoenix Moment

Challenges Confronting the Indian Left

By: Praful Bidwai

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The Phoenix Moment

Challenges Confronting the Indian Left

By: Praful Bidwai

Praful Bidwai's analysis and conclusions compel serious engagement both by academics and political leaders.' - K.N. Panikkar 'Bidwai's assessments will undoubtedly trigger further discussion.' - Romila Thapar 'Praful raises the right questions and is scrupulously fair.' - Susan George India still has a significant and relatively powerful communist movement. In spite of the massive setbacks communist parties have suffered in and since the 2014 national elections, and their general decline during the past decade, the Indian Left is a significant component of the political spectrum. It is represented in virtually every state in the form of trade unions, peasant associations, women's organizations and student unions, and in state legislatures, municipal bodies and village councils. The Phoenix Moment seeks to understand how a communist movement, almost unique within the world's capitalist democracies, flourished for so long in India, and what accounts for its initially gradual and then rapid decline. It also asks how far and in what manner the Left has accomplished its goals; whether it could have achieved more and what its future prospects are. Crucially, political analyst Praful Bidwai investigates whether the Left's core agenda of progressive or socialist transformation can yet be reinvented and restored to relevance - either with its own agency or through other forces, formations and initiatives. Given the paucity of analytical literature on the mainstream Left at the national level, Bidwai's timely and deeply insightful book fills a crucial void.

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Harper Collins

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9351775178

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9789351775171

New Nukes

India, Pakistan and Global Nuclear Disarmament

By: Praful Bidwai,Achin Vanaik

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New Nukes

India, Pakistan and Global Nuclear Disarmament

By: Praful Bidwai,Achin Vanaik

Nuclear tests in India and Pakistan brought the threat of nuclear war back to the world's centre stage. The tests and nuclear moves have raised regional tension, increased poverty in already impoverished nations, and could possibly have fuelled an arms race which goes beyond the borders of the two countries. This text examines the causes and consequences of India and Pakistani nuclear tests. The book provides a framework for understanding the global context of these tests, and looks at approaches for nuclear abolition in Asia and the West.

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Signal Books

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1902669258

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9781902669250

New Nukes

India, Pakistan and Global Nuclear Disarmament

By: Praful Bidwai,Achin Vanaik

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India, Pakistan and Global Nuclear Disarmament

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