Anthropolitics: An Alternative Approach for Parliamentary vs. Revolutionary Politics in India


Published: Jun 29, 2022
Keywords:
Anthropolitics Democracy Insurrection Governance Fifth Schedule Constitution Revolution Maoist Party India
Nayakara Veeresha
Abstract

Indian democracy is experiencing various uprisings in the regions of Central and Eastern India, Jammu & Kashmir and North-Eastern regions. However, the nature and causative factors of these uprisings are different. The insurrection in Central India is popularly known as “largest internal security threat” that the country is facing as described by former Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh in 2006. The insurrections of Jammu & Kashmir and North-Eastern regions have strong identity base and assumed the form of insurgencies. The failure of the parliamentary democracy in implementing the provisions of the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution and the inadequacy of the revolutionary politics of the CPI (Maoist) in delivering good governance to the people indicate the need for alternative politics. These alternative politics may be called as Anthropolitics where human dignity and rights of an individual preferred over the power-centred politics.

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Author Biography
Nayakara Veeresha, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), India

PhD Fellow associated with the Centre for Political Institutions, Governance and Development (CPIGD), Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bengaluru, Karnataka.

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