Book review: Amit Ahuja, Mobilizing the Marginalized: Ethnic Parties without Ethnic Movements
| Author | Harish S. Wankhede |
| DOI | 10.1177/2321023020963418 |
| Published date | 01 December 2020 |
| Date | 01 December 2020 |
| Subject Matter | Book Reviews |
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visible and succeeded. It would be interesting to note why this long history of sedition and other free
speech restrictions in a liberal democracy have not provoked a similar challenge. For now, these books
undoubtedly have squarely put free speech on the agenda of those not just studying India but also other
liberal democracies.
Jinee Lokaneeta
Drew University
Madison, NJ, United States
E-mail: jlokanee@drew.edu
Amit Ahuja, Mobilizing the Marginalized: Ethnic Parties without Ethnic Movements. Delhi: Oxford University
Press. 2019. 238 pp. `550. ISBN: 9780190916435
DOI: 10.1177/2321023020963418
Dalit politics, based on the assessment that social elites lack ethical convictions about the emancipation
of the Dalits and under the leadership of Dr Ambedkar, has emerged as a fearless challenge to Congress’
parental and moralist appeals. The post-Ambedkar Dalit political mobilization has also been admired as
a substantive and transformative force. However, the Dalit assertion is also belittled as a narrow political
act, or looked down upon as narrow ethnic mobilization merely for a community-centric political
development. Recent political developments demonstrate that there is no ‘Dalit bloc’ at the national
level. Even in states like Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, where there was ideological...
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