# Power and Politics in Contemporary India: A Sociological View

- Institution: IIT Roorkee
- Department: Humanities and Social Sciences
- Teacher: Prof. Lalatendu Keshari Das
- Level: Undergraduate
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics
- Source: [NPTEL](https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109107893)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA](https://nptel.ac.in/faq) (Non-commercial use only.)
- Syllabus: [at the source](https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109107893)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

## Lectures

1. [What is Political Sociology? Scope and Key Concerns](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/976f1558b2bd) (Video)
2. [Classical Origins: Karl Marx](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/ccbdd346cc9b) (Video)
3. [Classical Origins: Max Weber](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/6d31d8c760c4) (Video)
4. [Marx, Weber and Conservation Practice](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/7808fbded7ec) (Video)
5. [Power Elites and Reproduction of Inequality](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/de8909acd483) (Video)
6. [Bourdieu and Reproduction of Classes](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/61d320edb795) (Video)
7. [Antonio Gramsci and Hegemony](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/8cbe3617e7f4) (Video)
8. [Foucault and Governmentality](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/eae949d77cd0) (Video)
9. [Steven Lukes and Three Dimensions of Power](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/fbb118b05a8c) (Video)
10. [Ranajit Guha: Dominance without Hegemony and General Configuration of Power](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/95c1f1881566) (Video)
11. [Nature of State: Louis Althusser and Ideological State Apparatus](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/f25441add3c5) (Video)
12. [Nature of State: Miliband-Poulantzas Debate](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/8f3f78535408) (Video)
13. [Sudipta Kaviraj: Critique of Passive Revolution in India](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/465705a74500) (Video)
14. [Pranab Bardhan: India’s Ruling Elites and Development Politics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/95b605f3b9bd) (Video)
15. [Partha Chatterjee: Civil and Political Society](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/9a577503b06b) (Video)
16. [Nations and Nationalism: Anthony Smith](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/cef6071ed2b3) (Video)
17. [Nations and Nationalism: Benedict Anderson](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/73497e1356b4) (Video)
18. [Nations and Nationalism: Partha Chatterjee](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/ef82cdc485e4) (Video)
19. [Nations and Nationalism: G. Aloysius](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/9ded120de7bb) (Video)
20. [Citizenship and Social Class: T.H. Marshall](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/eee3298e6cf0) (Video)
21. [Kinship and Political Authority in South Asia](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/c30704967502) (Video)
22. [Political Articulations of Caste: From Hierarchy to Mobilisation](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/2b522de1bf96) (Video)
23. [Intersections of Caste and Democracy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/2395854e9577) (Video)
24. [Community, Identity, and Moral Economies](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/a50b370b6a2e) (Video)
25. [Case Study: Dalit-Bahujan Politics and Assertion](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/69dcc99388ea) (Video)
26. [Class, Hegemony , and Political Mobilisation](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/077936d146d8) (Video)
27. [Political Sociology of Agrarian Chnage and Land](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/4e6e07a54256) (Video)
28. [Urban Informality and Class Politics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/43755afa8e1d) (Video)
29. [Labor, Precarity, and Informal Worker's Movements](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/ae0754b51ec8) (Video)
30. [Political Lives of Labour in India](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/9f2164df5923) (Video)
31. [Ethnicity, Community, and State Recognition](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/fd8ba36ab813) (Video)
32. [Sociology of Communalism and Secularism](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/72bb866e0c8c) (Video)
33. [Religion, Morality, and the Political Field](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/72eeaedbde13) (Video)
34. [Political Rituals and Symbolism](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/ba6aaaa0e012) (Video)
35. [Subnationalism: Separate Koshal Statehood Movement in India](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/ef32f9148ba3) (Video)
36. [Classical and New Social Movement Theories](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/759f6b58a0bd) (Video)
37. [Political Process Model and Resource Mobilisation](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/c664a5e2ce1a) (Video)
38. [Subaltern Movements: Adivasi, Dalit, Women](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/06c69c3577b0) (Video)
39. [Urban Protests and Anti-State Mobilisations](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/15a18978c971) (Video)
40. [Case Study: Chipko Movement](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/b426811d6d90) (Video)
41. [Sociology of Development and Post-development Critique](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/7c1dc938920f) (Video)
42. [From Government to Governance: Neoliberal Transitions](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/a6f675c5e1b6) (Video)
43. [The Role of NGOs and Donor-Driven Agendas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/aa53f6229cfd) (Video)
44. [The State, Welfare, and Targeted Governance](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/4e43553fc129) (Video)
45. [Case Study: The Rise of Self-help Groups and Micro-politics: Kudumbashree, Kerala](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/fe6307536022) (Video)
46. [Legal Pluralism and the Sociology of Law](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/046ccc7a17bc) (Video)
47. [Rights-based Mobilisation and Judicial Politics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/b477540fdcfd) (Video)
48. [Courts as Sites of Negotiation and Performance](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/fbc40cc515e7) (Video)
49. [Customary Law, Gender, and the State](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/d431d8cf0f70) (Video)
50. [Case Study: PIL, Judicial Activism, and Chilika Bachao Andolan](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/ce47dbdd6e2e) (Video)
51. [Political Communication and Public Discourse](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/a1500c15514b) (Video)
52. [Visual Politics: Symbols, Posters, and Performances](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/647b5f2e63e1) (Video)
53. [Popular Culture and the Construction of the Political](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/1bdd6028881a) (Video)
54. [Media, Surveillance, and the Manufacturing of Consent](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/86913c66db78) (Video)
55. [Case Study: Human-Elephnat Conflict in Media](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/8d2a15d54aed) (Video)
56. [Politics of the Margins and Hidden Transcripts (James Scott)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/021899486e1e) (Video)
57. [Gender and Political Sociology: Beyond Representation](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/b82ffcdc4a2b) (Video)
58. [The Political in the Everyday: Affect, Emotion, and Intimacy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/fceb06c6892a) (Video)
59. [Decolonising Political Sociology: Southern and Indigenous Epistemologies](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/c56a4f50f4c6) (Video)
60. [Final Synthesis: What is the Political Today?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109107893/4cc990c39b37) (Video)