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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- I. The Art of Thinking -- II. Judgment and Culture -- III. Culture and Curation -- IV. The World-Observer -- V. Politics and Philosophy, or Restoring a Common World -- VI. An as Yet Undetermined Animal -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Prologue -- Listening to the Silenced -- Part I: Introduction to Olympian Political Economy -- Property -- In Praise of the Homo Faber -- Interlude -- Olympianism and Democracy -- Unity in Democratic Action -- Part II: Olympian Culture System -- Ecumenism, Conviviality, and the Modality of Social Life -- Mass and Elite -- Appendix -- Currency Units

This book traces the entire trajectory of the farmers' movement in Western India, especially Maharashtra, from the 1980s to the present day. It reveals the fundamental contradictions between populism as an ideology and as political power within the democratic state structure. The volume highlights the ideologies of the movement; its emergence in the wake of a perceived agrarian crisis; how it conflates economics and populism; the role of leadership; stages of development from grassroots agitations rooted in civil society to the attempts to create space within structures of democratic politics; the eventual formation of a separate political party and consequent implications. It maps the linkages between populist ideology and mass participation, and their contested successes and failures in the domain of electoral politics. Further, the author underlines the effectiveness of the movement in addressing class and gender equations in the region. Rich in primary archival sources and informed field studies, this book will interest scholars and researchers of agrarian economy, rural sociology, and politics, particularly those concerned with social movements in India.

Keeping the continuous economic changes in mind, Microeconomics II: For University of Delhi is designed to make the students understand complex microeconomic theories in the simplest of possible ways. Structured specifically for the students of B. Com (Honours) studying Microeconomics II in Delhi University, the intentions are to create a standard text for undergraduate students, providing them with sufficient study material for tackling examinations and learning holistically.