Overview of The Phoenix Moment: Challenges Confronting the Indian Left Book

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.

• Book Type :

Social Sciences

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

• Number of Pages :

600 pages

• ISBN - 10 :

935177516X

• The Phoenix Moment: Challenges Confronting the Indian Left Published On :

1 Dec 2015

• Resource:

Textbooks, Social Sciences Books for Students, Teachers, Graudates, Professionals and all others

Disclaimer:

• The Phoenix Moment: Challenges Confronting the Indian Left Book is not for reading online or for free download in PDF or eBook format.
• Table of Contents,Index,Syllabus,summary and image of The Phoenix Moment: Challenges Confronting the Indian Left book may be of a different edition or of the same title.
• Price can change due to reprinting, price change by publisher or sourcing cost change for imported books.