Contesting Consensus. Disputing Inequality: Agonistic Subjectivities in Rural Bihar
Published By: South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal [Onl | Published Date: August, 01 , 2013This paper discusses the manner in which the rural poor in one of India’s most impoverished regions engage with and in politics by analyzing the way in which a landless Yadav couple tries to forestall the perpetuation by their wealthy Rajput neighbour of, and eventually contribute to the rupture of, elite-based consensus in their neighbourhood. It finds the framework of ‘agonism’ vitally useful to make sense of these tensions fruitfully.
Author(s): Indrajit Roy | Posted on: Sep 24, 2015 | Views()