FERMENT : YOUTH UNREST IN INDIA
Henry,Nikhila
FERMENT : YOUTH UNREST IN INDIA - 1 - New Delhi Macmillan 2018/01/01 - 277
From JNU to Jadavpur, anti-national movement spreads!’—Zee News
‘Activism or anti-nationalism?’—Times Now
‘Dalit students on warpath after Vemula suicide’
—FirstPost
‘Violence on Ramjas campus: no room for free, peacefulpolitical debate’—NDTV
‘Kashmir University students protest anti–free speechcircular’—TheQuint
These are but a tiny sample of headlines that have becomecommonplace in India in recent years. What is it about the present moment inthe life of our nation that has stirred so many thousands of young citizensinto political action? And what is it about the nature of their protests thatis threatening enough for the establishment to brand it ‘anti-national’?
The wave of youth protests, agitations, andmarches thatgripped India in the last fewyears were not, Nikhila Henry argues, sporadic,isolated, or piecemeal. Rather, they were an organized effort against afractured,
unforgiving, and deeply discriminatory society. Theparticipants, despite differences, often found convergence and empathy for eachother, and fought larger battles: battles of the Dalit, of the Adivasi, of theKashmiri, of the Women, of the Muslim. In so doing, it was not simplyentrenched discrimination they highlighted. In so doing, they questionedfundamental ideas of public morality and the very essence that makes us aunited nation.
Contents
Preface : When Green Leaves Rustled out a Fire
Star Gazer
1.Amour Proper: A Fistful
2.Makers of the New Mainstream
3.Leading the Nascent Public
FREEDOM SEEKERS
4.Temples of Sacrilege
5.We Won't Mother India
6.Greenrooms of Impending Revolt
CONFLICT BOUN
7.Vermin in the Underbelly
8.Kashmir : They Who Triggered a War
9.Harbingers of Hidden Homelands
DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND
9.In Conversation with the Nation
10.The Butterfly Effect
Acknowledgements
Index
9789386215437
Purchased Prism Books,Kadavanthra
anti-national movement
Activism -- anti-nationalism
Dalit students -- Vemula suicide
Violence --Ramjas campus
student movement
378.1981 / HEN
FERMENT : YOUTH UNREST IN INDIA - 1 - New Delhi Macmillan 2018/01/01 - 277
From JNU to Jadavpur, anti-national movement spreads!’—Zee News
‘Activism or anti-nationalism?’—Times Now
‘Dalit students on warpath after Vemula suicide’
—FirstPost
‘Violence on Ramjas campus: no room for free, peacefulpolitical debate’—NDTV
‘Kashmir University students protest anti–free speechcircular’—TheQuint
These are but a tiny sample of headlines that have becomecommonplace in India in recent years. What is it about the present moment inthe life of our nation that has stirred so many thousands of young citizensinto political action? And what is it about the nature of their protests thatis threatening enough for the establishment to brand it ‘anti-national’?
The wave of youth protests, agitations, andmarches thatgripped India in the last fewyears were not, Nikhila Henry argues, sporadic,isolated, or piecemeal. Rather, they were an organized effort against afractured,
unforgiving, and deeply discriminatory society. Theparticipants, despite differences, often found convergence and empathy for eachother, and fought larger battles: battles of the Dalit, of the Adivasi, of theKashmiri, of the Women, of the Muslim. In so doing, it was not simplyentrenched discrimination they highlighted. In so doing, they questionedfundamental ideas of public morality and the very essence that makes us aunited nation.
Contents
Preface : When Green Leaves Rustled out a Fire
Star Gazer
1.Amour Proper: A Fistful
2.Makers of the New Mainstream
3.Leading the Nascent Public
FREEDOM SEEKERS
4.Temples of Sacrilege
5.We Won't Mother India
6.Greenrooms of Impending Revolt
CONFLICT BOUN
7.Vermin in the Underbelly
8.Kashmir : They Who Triggered a War
9.Harbingers of Hidden Homelands
DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND
9.In Conversation with the Nation
10.The Butterfly Effect
Acknowledgements
Index
9789386215437
Purchased Prism Books,Kadavanthra
anti-national movement
Activism -- anti-nationalism
Dalit students -- Vemula suicide
Violence --Ramjas campus
student movement
378.1981 / HEN