Maoism, democracy and globalization are three distinct but inseparable currents marking Indian politics today. They are distinct in terms of their goals, direction, and modalities of forging social, political, economic and even cultural change, while mutually influencing each other in the emergent political process. This book maps processes that are internal to each of these currents while exploring and identifying the moments of mutual influence, areas of conflict and mutually exclusive pulls they bring to the contemporary politics in India

"Maoism," a vital addition to the "Political Science" series, explores the global influence of Mao Zedong's revolutionary ideology. The book offers a deep dive into Maoism's enduring legacy, making it essential for scholars, students, and anyone interested in political theory and historical movements. Chapter Highlights: 1. Maoism: Explore Mao Zedong's foundational principles and their impact on global socialist movements. 2. Democracy Wall: Discover the significance of this crucial moment in China, balancing political openness and authoritarianism. 3. Sino-Albanian Split: Analyze the ideological rift between China and Albania, emphasizing differing Marxist interpretations. 4. New Communist Movement: Trace the rise of global communist factions shaped by Maoist principles. 5. Deviationism: Examine debates within the Chinese Communist Party on ideological purity and deviation. 6. Left Communism in China: Investigate radical communist voices in China and their clashes with mainstream ideology. 7. Deng Xiaoping Theory: Contrast Deng Xiaoping's reforms with Maoist principles, exploring their impact on China. 8. Italian Marxist–Leninist Party: Assess Maoism's influence on Italy's Marxist movements and revolutionary strategies. 9. List of Communist Ideologies: Survey diverse global communist ideologies through a Maoist lens. 10. Marxist Schools of Thought: Compare various Marxist interpretations, focusing on Maoism's unique contributions. 11. Maurice Meisner: Review Meisner's scholarship on Mao Zedong and Chinese communism in a global context. 12. Capitalist Roader: Investigate Mao's critique of internal threats to revolutionary purity. 13. People's Democratic Dictatorship: Analyze Maoist governance theory and its application in China's political system. 14. Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: Examine post-Mao Chinese socialism, focusing on economic reforms and ideological shifts. 15. Ideology of the Chinese Communist Party: Trace the CCP's ideological evolution under Mao and beyond. 16. Anti-revisionism: Assess Maoist critiques of revisionism in global communist movements. 17. Marxism–Leninism–Maoism: Define Maoism's evolution as a distinct branch of Marxist theory. 18. Revolutionary Internationalist Movement: Reflect on Maoist contributions to global revolutionary movements. 19. Chinese Marxist Philosophy: Study the development of Marxist philosophy in China, blending traditional thought and global influences. 20. Outline of Marxism: Provide an overview of Marxist theory, contextualizing Maoism within broader socialist ideologies. 21. J. Moufawad-Paul: Explore contemporary Maoist theory through Moufawad-Paul's scholarship. This comprehensive exploration of Maoism offers profound insights into one of the most influential ideological movements of the 20th century, challenging perspectives and enhancing understanding of global political dynamics.

Partha Chatterjee, a pioneering theorist known for his disciplinary range, builds on his theory of "political society" and reinforces its salience to contemporary political debate. Dexterously incorporating the concerns of South Asian studies, postcolonialism, the social sciences, and the humanities, Chatterjee broadly critiques the past three hundred years of western political theory to ask, Can democracy be brought into being, or even fought for, in the image of Western democracy as it exists today? Using the example of postcolonial societies and their political evolution, particularly communities within India, Chatterjee undermines the certainty of liberal democratic theory in favor of a realist view of its achievements and limitations. Rather than push an alternative theory, Chatterjee works solely within the realm of critique, proving political difference is not always evidence of philosophical and cultural backwardness outside of the West. Resisting all prejudices and preformed judgments, he deploys his trademark, genre-bending, provocative analysis to upend the assumptions of postcolonial studies, comparative history, and the common claims of contemporary politics.

*** WINNER OF THE 2019 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NAYEF AL-RODHAN PRIZE FOR GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING SHORTLISTED FOR DEUTSCHER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING*** 'Revelatory and instructive… [a] beautifully written and accessible book’ The Times For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao’s revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism. But Mao and his ideas remain central to the People’s Republic and the legitimacy of its Communist government. With disagreements and conflicts between China and the West on the rise, the need to understand the political legacy of Mao is urgent and growing. The power and appeal of Maoism have extended far beyond China. Maoism was a crucial motor of the Cold War: it shaped the course of the Vietnam War (and the international youth rebellions that conflict triggered) and brought to power the murderous Khmer Rouge in Cambodia; it aided, and sometimes handed victory to, anti-colonial resistance movements in Africa; it inspired terrorism in Germany and Italy, and wars and insurgencies in Peru, India and Nepal, some of which are still with us today – more than forty years after the death of Mao. In this new history, Julia Lovell re-evaluates Maoism as both a Chinese and an international force, linking its evolution in China with its global legacy. It is a story that takes us from the tea plantations of north India to the sierras of the Andes, from Paris’s fifth arrondissement to the fields of Tanzania, from the rice paddies of Cambodia to the terraces of Brixton. Starting with the birth of Mao’s revolution in northwest China in the 1930s and concluding with its violent afterlives in South Asia and resurgence in the People’s Republic today, this is a landmark history of global Maoism.

The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies provides diverse and cutting-edge perspectives on this fast-changing field. For 30 years the world has been caught in a long ‘global interregnum,’ plunging from one crisis to the next and witnessing the emergence of new, vibrant, multiple, and sometimes contradictory forms of popular resistance and politics. This global ‘interregnum’ – or a period of uncertainty where the old hegemony is fading and the new ones have not yet been fully realized – necessitates critical self-reflection, brave intellectual speculation and (un)learning of perceived wisdoms, and greater transdisciplinary collaboration across theories, localities, and subjects. This Handbook takes up this challenge by developing fresh perspectives on globalization, development, neoliberalism, capitalism, and their progressive alternatives, addressing issues of democracy, power, inequality, insecurity, precarity, wellbeing, education, displacement, social movements, violence and war, and climate change. Throughout, it emphasizes the dynamics for system change, including bringing post-capitalist, feminist, (de)colonial, and other critical perspectives to support transformative global praxis. This volume brings together a mixture of fresh and established scholars from across disciplines and from a range of both Northern and Southern contexts. Researchers and students from around the world and across the fields of politics, sociology, international development, international relations, geography, economics, area studies, and philosophy will find this an invaluable and fresh guide to global studies in the 21st century.

Winner of the 2020 Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Book Prize Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize Shortlisted for the New India Foundation Book Prize Anthropologist Alpa Shah found herself in an active platoon of Naxalites—one of the longest-running guerrilla insurgencies in the world. The only woman, and the only person without a weapon, she walked alongside the militants for seven nights across 150 miles of dense, hilly forests in eastern India. Nightmarch is the riveting story of Shah's journey, grounded in her years of living with India’s tribal people, an eye-opening exploration of the movement’s history and future and a powerful contemplation of how disadvantaged people fight back against unjust systems in today’s world. The Naxalites have fought for a communist society for the past fifty years, caught in a conflict that has so far claimed at least forty thousand lives. Yet surprisingly little is known about these fighters in the West. Framed by the Indian state as a deadly terrorist group, the movement is actually made up of Marxist ideologues and lower-caste and tribal combatants, all of whom seek to overthrow a system that has abused them for decades. In Nightmarch, Shah shares some of their gritty untold stories: here we meet a high-caste leader who spent almost thirty years underground, a young Adivasi foot soldier, and an Adivasi youth who defected. Speaking with them and living for years with villagers in guerrilla strongholds, Shah has sought to understand why some of India’s poor have shunned the world’s largest democracy and taken up arms to fight for a fairer society—and asks whether they might be undermining their own aims. By shining a light on this largely ignored corner of the world, Shah raises important questions about the uncaring advance of capitalism and offers a compelling reflection on dispossession and conflict at the heart of contemporary India.