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Title: | Social Movement Decomposed into State: Understanding the West Bengal Experience |
Other Titles: | Journal of POLITICAL STUDIES, Vol. 06, March 2012, pp 01-20 |
Authors: | Chattopadhyay, Pratip |
Keywords: | social movement state West Bengal Left Front Trinamul Congress |
Issue Date: | Mar-2012 |
Publisher: | University of North Bengal |
Abstract: | Indian politics has been passing through a transitory phase and social movements have become the major fulcrum of such changes. West Bengal has seen two massive transfers of power in post independence period – in 1977 the Left parties came to power and in 2011 the Left parties were ousted by Trinamul Congress. On a comparative note the paper argues that after coming to power, the Left Front for over three decades and the Trinamul Congress in its one and half a year regime have failed to translate their revolutionary zeal in the state structure in a sustained manner and concludes that the character of a social movement changes after its decomposition into state power and the story of social movements remains a story of political illusion. |
URI: | http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/3826 |
ISSN: | 2278-4039 |
Appears in Collections: | Vol. 06, (March 2012) |
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