PPT-India: Democracy, Nationalism and Conflict

II Maoist Naxalite uprising in India Harinda Vidanage PhD Naxalites The Maoist movement also called the Naxalite movement after Naxalbari the name of a rural town where a 1967 peasant uprising ignited this tendency . Application . of . Human . R. ights . I. ndicators. Professor Todd . Landman. Director. Institute for Democracy and Conflict Resolution. Presentation for the . Fundamental Rights Agency Symposium. ‘. Professor Eric Kaufmann. Birkbeck College, University of London. t. witter: @. epkaufm. Ethnic Group. Comprehensive Definition. a collective proper name. a myth of common ancestry. shared historical memories. Notethatwearenotusingtheterminthesenseofconstitutivenorms,suchassovereignty,democracy,nationalism,equality,andsoforthwhatEnglishSchooltheoriststermprimaryinstitutions.See:BarryBuzan[],andQinYaqing[].T The . Sepoy. Mutiny- The First Indian Rebellion. Sepoy. : . Indian soldier in the British East India Company’s army . Mutiny: . Rebellion against the authorities. Mangal. . Pandey. : . Sepoy. and leader of rebellion. Questions Sections 1 and 2.  . 1. How were the British East India Company and the British Crown able to take economic . . . and political control of India after the . Munghal. Empire’s decline?. Democracy. Key question is whether developing countries can become stable liberal democracies. Neoconservative and liberal internationalist views optimistic (i.e. Fukuyama). Huntington – pessimistic, due to absence of liberal culture in many societies. Context . Written 1908 while traveling between S. Africa and India. Written as a conversation, a common rhetorical device. Still based in South Africa, some important successes there, but very aware of what’s going on in India. II. ‘Maoist/. Naxalite. uprising in India’. Harinda Vidanage PhD. Naxalites. The Maoist movement, also called the . Naxalite. movement, after . Naxalbari. . the name . of a rural town where a 1967 peasant uprising ignited this tendency . Coursework Day. RTAI / ICRE. 28 January 2017 . F.1 A Case Study on the Connection between the . Religious Beliefs . of a Major World Religion and its Members’ Commitment to . non-Violent. Means of . 1857 and Aftermath. Revolt of 1857: led by Indian princes, . joined . by peasants, . sought BRING . BACK OLD order, . but . old order itself divided: hence regionally limited. Though major shock to British, . nationalism. „. Nationalism . has been associated with the nastiest of wars in the history and looks like it’s back to haunt us like a bad dream. The unexpected rise of . Trump. ; UK’s . Brexit. CLASS-. Vl. MODULE:2/2. KEY ELEMENTS OF A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT. Democracy has certain key elements.. Like participation, conflict resolution and concern for equality and justice.. Apartheid means racial segregation.. A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world\'s largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intoleranceOver the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism that has ensured its success at the polls, first in Gujarat and then in India at large. Modi managed to seduce a substantial number of citizens by promising them development and polarizing the electorate along ethno-religious lines. Both facets of this national-populism found expression in a highly personalized political style as Modi related directly to the voters through all kinds of channels of communication in order to saturate the public space.Drawing on original interviews conducted across India, Christophe Jaffrelot shows how Modi\'s government has moved India toward a new form of democracy, an ethnic democracy that equates the majoritarian community with the nation and relegates Muslims and Christians to second-class citizens who are harassed by vigilante groups. He discusses how the promotion of Hindu nationalism has resulted in attacks against secularists, intellectuals, universities, and NGOs. Jaffrelot explains how the political system of India has acquired authoritarian features for other reasons, too. Eager to govern not only in New Delhi, but also in the states, the government has centralized power at the expense of federalism and undermined institutions that were part of the checks and balances, including India\'s Supreme Court.Modi\'s India is a sobering account of how a once-vibrant democracy can go wrong when a government backed by popular consent suppresses dissent while growing increasingly intolerant of ethnic and religious minorities. In India the growth of modern nationalism is intimately connected to the anti-colonial movement. People began discovering their unity in the process of their struggle with colonialism.. The sense of being oppressed under colonialism provided a shared bond that tied many different groups together..