Disenchanted India and Beyond

Bhabani Shankar Nayak

doi:10.5771/9781793642806

Summary

Disenchanted India and Beyond: Musings on the Lockdown Alternatives engages with the lineages of the present disenchantment and everyday issues of people in India and beyond. It depicts local, regional, national and global transitions in politics, economy and society. It rejects the ideals that promotes ‘there is no alternative’ narratives. It unravels the way reactionary and right-wing forces weaponize pessimism that helps capitalist forces and undermines working classes. The book examines existing and available alternatives for a prosperous and peaceful society. The book argues for pluriversal political and philosophical praxis to consolidate and defend the progressive achievements of the working-class struggles.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4279-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4280-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 190
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgements No access
4. Introduction No access
1. Globalisation of Capitalist Crises No access
2. Coronavirus-Pandemic-Led Global Health Crises No access
3. Neoliberalism and Its Criminal Confessions No access
4. Dangers for Democracy without Opposition No access
5. Crisis of American Dream No access
6. Troika of Imperialist Projects from NATO, Quad to D-10 No access
7. Manifesto against Democratic Deficits and the Capitalist Westphalian Nation State No access
8. The Lineages and Transformations No access
9. The Quest for Alternatives Manifesto No access
10. Towards the Forward March of Worker-Led Alternative Globalization No access
1. Coronavirus, Business of Sickness and the Socialist Alternatives No access
2. What Happened to ‘Failed State’ Thesis? No access
3. Coronavirus Crisis and the Future of Mass Movements No access
4. Tale of Two States in India during Coronavirus Pandemic No access
5. Migrants as Citizens and State Planning for Rural Development in India No access
6. The Pandemic and Withering Away of the Working Classes in India No access
7. Alternatives for Rural and Agricultural Development in India during and after COVID-19 No access
8. In Quest of Odia Renaissance No access
9. Risks of Banking Brotherhood between India and China No access
10. In Defence of Chinese People and Their Revolution No access
11. China Diminishes Itself No access
1. Decoding Hindutva Politics and Its Perils in India No access
2. Lynching of Democracy in India No access
3. Lawfare, Crisis and Hindutva Fascism in India No access
4. Disasters of Neoliberalism and Hindutva Fascism in India No access
5. Politics of Hindutva and Development Theology No access
6. Labour Division between Hindutva Fascism and Capitalism No access
7. Perils of Hindutva-Led Indian Economy and Alternatives No access
8. Fascist Modi, His Speeches and the Art of Deception No access
9. Mr Narendra Modi: The Failed Prophet of Propaganda No access
10. How Not to Be a Leader Like Mr Narendra Modi No access
11. Modi’s Love for Animals and Politics of Hate No access
12. Trust Deficit in Modinomics No access
13. Nirmala Sitharaman’s Economics as an Act of God in India No access
14. Hindutva Hindrance to Economic Growth and Development in India No access
15. Hindutva Leviathan No access
1. Hindutva: A Political and Economic Project of Shared Lies of Brahmanical Caste and Class Order No access
2. Halt the Forward March of Neoliberal Economy and Hindu Right-Wing Politics No access
3. Hey Ram India: Jai Sri Ram BJP and Congress – The Twins No access
4. Is It the Legal Terror of Sondergerichte and Volksgerichtshof or the Supreme Court of Democratic India? No access
5. Human Cost of Silence No access
6. India Needs United Front against Hindutva Fascism No access
7. Manifestos for Mass Movements for the Future and Survival of India No access
1. Adivasis, Anthropology and Its Swaddling No access
2. Factory Schools from Industrial Revolution to Modern Universities No access
3. Zooming the Death of Teachers and Teaching as a Profession No access
4. Right-Wing Political and Religious Forces and Mass Morality No access
5. Indian Contributions to British Music No access
6. Celebrity Culture, Propaganda and Capitalism No access
7. Mr Irrfan Khan: The Actor Who Explained Life on Cinema Screen No access
8. Rishi Kapoor beyond Silver Screen No access
9. Crime, Justice and Capitalism No access
10. Oligarchies of Mainstream Mass Media in Service of Capitalism No access
11. Ideology behind Character Assassination No access
12. Intellectuals as Lumpen Herds in the Universities No access
13. Regimes without Reason and Conscience No access
14. Freedom in the Age of Neoliberalism and Right-Wing Politics No access
1. In Defence of Utopias No access
2. In Defence of Love Jihad No access
3. Limits of Puritanism No access
4. In Search of ‘Unity, Solidarity and Peace’ in a Fragile World No access
5. Limits of Intersectionality and Global Significance of #BlackLivesMatter Movements No access
6. Significance of Protest against Power for Human Progress No access
7. The Twin Essence of Our Times No access
Bibliography No access Pages 169 - 174
Index No access Pages 175 - 188
About the Author No access Pages 189 - 190