Chapter
Introduction: a genealogy of the 1990s
Collapse of the “Nehruvian consensus”
The long 1980s – after the Emergency
1 | The recalcitrance of caste
The “backward castes” in power
Dalits, OBCs and secularism/communalism
Backward castes and the Women’s Reservation Bill
“Mandal II” and the electoral calculus
2 | Politics of Hindutva and the minorities
Key features of Hindutva ideology
Organizations of the Hindu Right
The Uniform Civil Code (UCC) debate
Ayodhya, Babri Masjid and Ramjanmabhoomi
BJP in power: the National Democratic Alliance
Muslim politics: the secular/communal question
Caste politics and secularism
3 | Globalization I: accumulation by dispossession
Private corporations and Special Economic Zones
Democracy, protest, and the nation
Dispossession by law: the case of the NVP
Displacement, compensation, and relocation
The city beautiful: producing the global city
4 | Globalization II: new economiesof desire
Unshackling the imagination
Hindi and the media explosion
Desire, sex, and the city
Feminist rethinking on sexuality
Dalit celebration of consumption
Greater role in national politics
West Bengal: from controlled militancy to neoliberalism
Non-party movements and heterodox voices
Naxalbari and the Far Left
Maoism – the third phase of Naxalism
Citizens’ initiatives and NGOs
Insurgency and state repression
Ethnic identity and conflict
“Conflict management” in the north east
Conclusion: a heterogeneous present
The UPA, the Left, and social movements
Hindutva and caste politics
Violence against women and feminist initiatives
Resistance to corporate globalization
1 The recalcitrance of caste
2 Politics of Hindutva and the minorities
Power and Contestation
：India since 1989
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