Nivedita Menon
- Affiliation: University of Delhi
Nivedita Menon is reader in the Department of Political Science at the University of Delhi. She is author of Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond the Law and editor of Gender and Politics in India.
Books by Nivedita Menon
Power and Contestation
India Since 1989
Nivedita Menon, Aditya Nigam
1989 marks the unraveling of India’s “Nehruvian Consensus” of a modern, secular nation with a selfreliant economy. Caste and religion play major roles in national politics. Global economic integration led to conflict between the state and dispossessed people, but processes of globalization have also enabled new spaces for political assertion. In a world of American Empire, India as a nuclear power has abandoned nonalignment, a shift contested by voices within. Power and Contestation… (more information)