Mukulika Banerjee

Mukulika Banerjee

London Area, United Kingdom
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London School of Economics
Somerville College, Oxford

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  • London School of Economics

    London School of Economics and Political Science

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    London

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    Oxford, United Kingdom

Education

  • Somerville College, Oxford

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    Research on a non-violent revolutionary movement among Pashtuns against British imperialism in the North West Frontier Province 1930-'47

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Publications

  • What led to the success of the farmers’ movement

    Indian Express

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  • Why the Indian farmers’ movement is a lesson in democracy

    Financial Times

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  • Cultivating Democracy : Politics and Citizenship in agrarian India

    Oxford University Press

    Cultivating Democracy is the first study of its kind of the world’s largest democracy that shows how the values of republicanism are essential for successful democratic practice. In 1950, after independence, India constituted itself as a sovereign democratic republic. While democracy indicated the character of the vertical representative nature of the relationship between citizens and state, the term republic outlined the horizontal relationship of fraternity between people and an active…

    Cultivating Democracy is the first study of its kind of the world’s largest democracy that shows how the values of republicanism are essential for successful democratic practice. In 1950, after independence, India constituted itself as a sovereign democratic republic. While democracy indicated the character of the vertical representative nature of the relationship between citizens and state, the term republic outlined the horizontal relationship of fraternity between people and an active engagement by citizens. The discussion of Indian politics in this book thereby attends to both its institutional form and its democratic culture and shows how the project of democracy is incomplete unless it is also accompanied by a continual cultivation of active citizenship of republicanism. This book is an anthropological study of the relationship of formal political democracy and the cultivation of active citizenship in one particular rural setting in India, studied from 1998 to 2013. It draws on deep ethnographic engagement with the people and social life in two villages, both during elections and in the time in between them, to show how these two temporalities connect. The analysis shows how an agrarian village society produces the social imaginaries required for democratic and republican values. The ethnographic microscope on a single paddy growing setting allows us to examine how the various social institutions of kinship, economy, and religion are critical sites for the continual civic cultivation of cooperation, vigilance, redistribution, inviolate commitment, and hope—values that are essential for democracy.

    Keywords: democracy, India, citizenship, politics, agrarian, cultivation, republic, elections, anthropology.

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  • WHY INDIA VOTES?

    Routledge

    This book answers the question why so many Indians, especially those drawn from her most disadvantaged sections, vote in such large numbers at Indian elections. It is based on an innovative ethnographic study that was carried out across 12 locations in India during the 2009 national elections. The results are both startling and insightful.

  • Success of the farmer's movement

    Indian Express

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Projects

  • Exploring Electoral Change in Rural and Urban India: National ethnographic studies of Assembly, Panchayat and Municipal Elections 2012-2015

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    This is a comparative, ethnographic study across several Indian states of the meaning that elections hold for ordinary people, at different tiers of democracy.

Languages

  • Pashto

    Elementary proficiency

  • Hindi

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Urdu

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Bengali

    Native or bilingual proficiency

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