Field Notes on Democracy.: Listening to Grasshoppers
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These essays examine the dark side of contemporary India, looking closely at how religious majoritarianism, cultural nationalism, and neo-fascism simmer just under the surface of a country that projects itself as the world's largest democracy. Arundhati Roy writes about how the combination of Hindu nationalism and India's neo-liberal economic reforms, which began their journey together in the early 1990s, are turning India into a police state. She describes the systematic marginalization of religious and ethnic minorities, the rise of terrorism, and the massive scale of displacement and dispossession of the poor by predatory corporations. She also offers a brilliant account of the August 2008 uprising of the people of Kashmir against India's military occupation and an analysis of the November 2008 attacks on Mumbai. Field Notes on Democracy tracks the fault-lines that threaten to destroy India's precarious democracy and send shockwaves through the region and beyond.
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Roy, A. (2009). Field Notes on Democracy. [United States], Haymarket Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Roy, Arundhati. 2009. Field Notes On Democracy. [United States], Haymarket Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Roy, Arundhati, Field Notes On Democracy. [United States], Haymarket Books, 2009.
MLA Citation (style guide)Roy, Arundhati. Field Notes On Democracy. [United States], Haymarket Books, 2009.
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