Collective Subjectivity, Democracy and Domination: The MJVA in Marathwada, India.

This article discusses a particular social movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s in Marathwada subregion of Maharashtra state in India. The article further analyses the multiple ways in which the terrain of development in India was mapped by the social movement Marathwada Janata Vikas Aandolan (MJVA). Sociology of social movements has increasingly acquired a centre-stage status in the sociology of the 21st century. This is an indication of two things, the first, there is a growing need to identify sources of collective agency in the scenario currently being altered by processes of globalization. The second, it underscores the urgent need to reconsider the relationship between social movements, the state and political power. The author argues that MJVA brought to the fore the contradictions unleashed by capitalist modernity in a peripheral postcolonial society like India. The nationalist struggles both in British India and the Princely States were aimed at securing capitalist modernity. Even the movements for development and economic prosperity of the of modernity.