The Problem
| dc.contributor.author | Guha, Ramachandra | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-04-28T05:04:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-04-28T05:04:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1989-03 | |
| dc.description | This text discusses India's widespread social crisis and the rise of new social movements focusing on women, ecology, science, health, and civil liberties. Unlike traditional political movements, these operate outside party systems, challenging both capitalist and communist models of development. They aim not just for resource redistribution but for redefining quality of life and autonomy within civil society. | |
| dc.description.abstract | COMMENTING on the social crisis in India in an earlier issue of SEMINAR, a distinguished sociologist wrote, 'The difficulty is not specific, local, and temporary; it is general, widespread, and persistent. It is evident in the difficulty we have over such elemental issues as unemployment, population growth, sanitation and control over violence; in all branches of government: political parties, legislatures, bureaucracy, judiciary; in key societal institutions like the universities and trade unions... In the past decade, perhaps a dozen issues of SEMINAR have been devoted to the underlying causes of this un-deniably widespread crisis and its manifestation in the political, economic, judicial, and religious spheres. The present issue explores some of the more significant responses to the crisis. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Guha, Ramachandra. (1989). The Problem. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://192.9.200.215:4000/handle/123456789/516 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.subject | Social Crisis | |
| dc.subject | Quality of Life | |
| dc.subject | Environmentalists | |
| dc.subject | Capitalism and Communism | |
| dc.subject | Sociologists | |
| dc.title | The Problem | |
| dc.type | Working Paper |