SOCIAL COLLECTIVES, POLITICAL MOBILISATION AND THE LOCAL STATE: A VIEW FROM THE FIELD

Aseem Prakash

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Based on a detailed field world, the paper is an attempt to understand the nature and character of civil social and religious collectives. The concern of the paper is to map the diverse nature of dominant civil-social and religious collectives and their role in socio-political mobilisation. It details how these collectives facilitate socio-political mobilisation, help its members to access the resources of the local sate and also provide a platform(s) to its members that can be used to unfold political designs for retaining socio-economic and political status-quo.


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Caste, Communal Politics, Political Process, Political Mobilisation, Democratic Renewal

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