Debal Singharoy

Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) | IGNOU · School of Social Sciences (SOSS)

The Open Universities in India have emerged out of a political commitment of the state especially to cater to the educational need of the disadvantaged section of population. It has also excelled and sustained itself of dedication and commitment of large number of distance teachers, educators, researchers and administrators in the country. Hence th...

Collective identities of people have remained largely transitional despite largely remaining rooted in certain inherited essentialities. The essential dynamics of identity often get negotiated with various forces and processes like those of the economic transformation, technological reorientation, collective mobilisation, modernisation, colonisatio...

Contemporary India stands on the threshold of a knowledge society that is widely characterized by phenomenal penetration of information and communication technologies (ICTs), neo-liberal economic globalisation, use of knowledge and education in all domains of lives, shift in workforce from agriculture and industry to service sector, as well as the...

The processes of social mobility, collective mobilization and social movements are important constituents of social progression with important continuities and connectedness. At times, one of these processes becomes the extension of another or paves the way for the emergence of another as the reflective continuum of social progression. In the conte...

Why do women need ant extra space within the broad fold of a social movement for the articulation of their problems? Do all social movements provide the required space and the conditions for such an articulation. ALTHOUGH the concept of 'women's empowerment' is of recent origin in feminist vocabulary, periodic efforts towards the empowerment of wom...

Contemporary India stands in the threshold of a vibrant knowledge society that is widely characterized by unprecedented flow of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), enhanced local global connectivity, economic globalization and a high representation of young in the country’s population. Though India has a knowledge-based past, its tra...

This book depicts the emergence of knowledge society across rural and urban spaces and among cross sections of social collectivities in India. It analyses the new economic momentum and socio-cultural milieu as set in motion with the emergence of this society. The ensuing impact on the pre-existing facets of social identity and marginality, and the...

This entry summarizes the dynamics of peasant movements in both historical and contemporary terms. It highlights the nature of peasants’ political actions, the conditions that produce peasant movements, and the changing dimensions of peasants’ movements in the pre-and posteconomic liberalization world.

Indian society has long been a breeding ground for a range of tribal, caste, peasant, worker’s, women’s, ethnic, regional, envi-ronmental, human rights, gay rights, and animal rights movements, and many other social movements under the auspices of varied ideologies and organizations. This entry outlines the emergence and dynamics of some of these m...

Indigenous movements in Australia are at a crossroad in their efforts to protect their intrinsic relations with land, nature and culture on the one hand and engaging with the reconciliatory and developmental dynamics of the state on the other. This paper examines the process of articulation and rejuvenation of indigenous identities that negotiate a...

This collection of essays shows that as the developmental processes have not positively impacted all sections of the society, due to inherited sociocultural considerations on the one hand and the state failure to ensure equity to all its citizen on the other, preexisting social imbalances have been reproduced and furthered keeping vast sections of...

This collection of essays examines the emerging patterns of social movements taking shape all over the world locally and also cutting across the geographical boundaries of the state and the nation globally. It not only critically analyzes the conceptual underpinnings of the functional, symbolic interactional, Marxian, neo-Marxian, political process...

Though many of the preexisting processes of marginalization are getting weakened with the expansion of the democratic and liberal forces, several new dimensions of marginalization are in the making and old ones are also getting reinforced in the wake of globalization. This collection of essays with reputed scholars from India, the United States, th...

In social science vocabulary though the usage of the notion of marginalization is not new, in recent years it has acquired a place of significance in the context of globalization, adoption of new perspectives of social development, transition of society and emergence of new conditions of sustenance of social injustice and exclusion. Marginalization...

This paper examines ways in which peasant movements transform, institutionalise themselves, forge new collective identities and articulate new strategies to ensure peasant survival and resistance against domination in contemporary India. Focusing on four villages that were witness to the Tebhaga, Telangana and the Naxalite movements it sociological...

The central concern of this paper is to examine the issues of development, domination and dependency of the tribal peasantry in the context of implementation of land reforms and rural development initiatives in West Bengal. The dimensions of the tribal peasantry's persistent economic deprivation, socio-cultural marginalisation and political mobiliz...

The central concern of this book is to examine in a comparative framework, the ways in which grassroots mobilizations transform and institutionalize themselves, forge new collective identities and articulate new strategies for survival and resistance. It focuses on three major radical movements—Tebhaga and Naxalite in West Bengal and Telangana in A...

Empowerment, civil society, and democratisation comprise the new package of liberalisation discourse which at face value at least respond to the long-standing demands of struggling groups. In practice, the contributors argue, each has been given a restricted meaning and has been oriented to serve the present global drive of Western capitalism. This...

Indigenous movements in Australia are at a crossroad in their efforts to protect their intrinsic relations with land, nature and culture on the one hand and engaging with the reconciliatory and developmental dynamics of the state on the other. This paper examines the process of articulation and rejuvenation of indigenous identities that negotiate a...

It examines the notion of empowerment in the contexts of the life situation of marginalised, and analyses the role of open learning to break the barriers of marginality in society, and finally the problem and prospect of generating an alternative body of knowledge as praxis for their empowerment

Why do women need ant extra space within the broad fold of a social movement for the articulation of their problems? Do all social movements provide the required space and the conditions for such an articulation. ALTHOUGH the concept of 'women's empowerment' is of recent origin in feminist vocabulary, periodic efforts towards the empowerment ol wom...

This study examines the impact of agricultural modernization and technological changes on the land holding patterns, work profile of women and men by crop seasons, indebtedness, outmigration, consumption patterns, decision making and sharing of responsibilities within the family in selected villages of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

The book examines the role working class rural women play in peasant movements at different levels of the economic and political formation of an agrarian society. With its focus on West Bengal, India, it investigates: (a) the form and extent of working class rural women's response to the extensive peasant movements (namely the Tebhaga Movement of 1...