Text results from the workshop Social movements and poverty in India held at the University of California at Berkeley in April 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-297) and index.

Introduction : in the beginning, there was the Nehruvian state / Raka Ray and Mary Fainsod Katzenstein -- From class compromise to class accommodation : labor's incorporation into the Indian political economy / Vivek Chibber -- Problems of social power and the discourses of the Hindu right / Tanika Sarkar -- Reinventing public power in the age of globalization : decentralization and the transformation of movement politics in Kerala / Patrick Heller -- Feminism, poverty, and the emergent social order / Mary E. John -- Who are the country's poor? : social movement politics and Dalit poverty / Gopal Guru and Anuradha Chakravarty -- Red in tooth and claw? : looking for class in struggles over nature / Amita Baviskar -- Farmer's movements and the debate on poverty and economic reforms in India / Gail Omvedt -- Miracle seeds, suicide seeds, and the poor : GMOs, NGOs, farmers, and the state / Ronald J. Herring -- Strong states, strong NGOs / Neema Kudva.