The Making of a Small State: Populist Social Mobilisation and the Hindi Press in the Uttarakhand Movement
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New Perspectives in South Asian History
Book: 2Author
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
9788125042006
Length
xx+335p., Illustrations; Maps; 23cm.
Subjects
In 1994, the reactionary student agitation against OBC reservations metamorphosed into a jan andolan (populist social mobilisation) for creation of Uttarakhand state. This study conceptualises jan andolan as a non-party populist political process that temporarily claims public space and often relies on the press to get its voices heard in the corridors of power. The mobilisation for Uttarakhand was led by social activists and civic leaders, who formed the ...
