The Dashing Ladies of Shiv Sena: Political Matronage in Urbanizing India (SUNY series in Hindu Studies) - Hardcover

Bedi, Tarini

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1438460317 ISBN 13: 9781438460314

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2016

Synopsis

Rich in detail, this book tells the stories of women of Shiv Sena (Shivaji's Army), a militant political party in Western India. It provides insight into the political networks powered by lower-level women politicians in postcolonial, globalizing cities and on their margins. Based on more than ten years of in-depth ethnographic fieldwork with the women of Shiv Sena, the work shows how women political activists in urbanizing India conjure political authority through the inventive, dangerous, and transgressive political personas known as "dashing ladies." Tarini Bedi develops a feminist theory of brokerage politics, arguing that political grids where women employ political, symbolic, and material resources through the political system may be seen as channels of what can be termed "political matronage."

About this title

Review:

"Dashing Ladies significantly advances our understanding of how women participate in Hindu nationalist politics, and deserves a careful and widespread reading for its contributions to the second wave of literature on this phenomenon." -- Pacific Affairs

About the Author:

Tarini Bedi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

About this edition

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1438460317
• ISBN 13: 9781438460314
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 318