Bhattacharyya, Harihar

Radical politics and governance in India's North East: the case of Tripura / Harihar Bhattacharyya. - xv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Introduction: radical politics and governance in India's North East
1 Marxism and the national/ethnic question: theory and practice in India
2 Ethnic diversity and ethnic radicalism in India's North East
3 Institutionalization of ethnic radicalism in India's North East: power sharing, participation and governance
4 Roots of radical politics in Tripura: princely State; demographic, social and economic transformations
5 The ethnic radicalism in Tripura: Reang rebellion 1943-45 and the birth of an ethnic identity
6 Origins of the communist movement in Tripura: Jana Mongal Samity, Jana Shiksha Samity and Paraja Mondal
7 Dialectics of radical ethnic nationalism and left radicalism in Tripura, 1948-51: communist influence over the tribal mass mobilization
8 Radical ethno-nationalism in Tripura, 1948-50
9 Left radicalism turned parliamentary an institutionalized in Tripura: appropriation of tribal ethno-nationalism
10 The rise and decline of the TUJS inTripura: radical ethnic challenge to the left
11 Marxists in power in Tripura: sub state level instutionalization of tribal identity
12 Marxists in power in Tripura: delimmas of governance since the 1990s

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Communism--History.--India--Tripura
Nationalism--History.--India--Tripura


Tripura (India)--Ethnic relations--History.
Tripura (India)--Politics and government.

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