Ferment: Youth Unrest in India e-bog
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'From JNU to Jadavpur, anti-national movement spreads!'-Zee News'Activism or anti-nationalism?'-Times Now'Dalit students on warpath after Vemula suicide' -First Post'Violence on Ramjas campus: no room for free, peaceful political debate'-NDTV'Kashmir University students protest anti-free speech circular'-QuintThese are but a tiny sample of headlines that have become commonplace in India in rece...
E-bog
127,71 DKK
Forlag
Pan Macmillan India
Udgivet
4 oktober 2018
Længde
100 sider
Genrer
Reportage, journalism or collected columns
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781529016628
'From JNU to Jadavpur, anti-national movement spreads!'-Zee News'Activism or anti-nationalism?'-Times Now'Dalit students on warpath after Vemula suicide' -First Post'Violence on Ramjas campus: no room for free, peaceful political debate'-NDTV'Kashmir University students protest anti-free speech circular'-QuintThese are but a tiny sample of headlines that have become commonplace in India in recent years. What is it about the present moment in the life of our nation that has stirred so many thousands of young citizens into political action? And what is it about the nature of their protests that is threatening enough for the establishment to brand it 'anti-national'? The wave of youth protests, agitations, and marches that gripped India in the last few years were not, Nikhila Henry argues, sporadic, isolated, or piecemeal. Rather, they were an organized effort against a fractured, unforgiving, and deeply discriminatory society. The participants, despite differences, often found convergence and empathy for each other, and fought larger battles: battles of the Dalit, of the Adivasi, of the Kashmiri, of the Women, of the Muslim.In so doing, it was not simply entrenched discrimination they highlighted. In so doing, they questioned fundamental ideas of public morality and the very essence that makes us a united nation.