The dashing ladies of Shiv Sena
Subtitle: political matronage in urbanizing India
By: Tarini Bedi
Series: SUNY series in Hindu studies
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9781438460314; 9781438460321
Subjects: Women political activists; Social  networks; Women politicians; Politics and government; Political culture; Shiv Sena; Urbanization; Women; Biography; Political Patronage; Political activity; Regionalism
Description: "Explores the activities and political personas of women activists in Shiv Sena, a militant Indian political party. Rich in detail, this book tells the stories of women of Shiv Sena (Shivaji's Army), a militant political party in Western India. It provides insight into the political networks powered by lower-level women politicians in postcolonial, globalizing cities and on their margins. Based on more than ten years of in-depth ethnographic fieldwork with the women of Shiv Sena, the work shows how women political activists in urbanizing India conjure political authority through the inventive, dangerous, and transgressive political personas known as 'dashing ladies.' Tarini Bedi develops a feminist theory of brokerage politics, arguing that political grids where women employ political, symbolic, and material resources through the political system may be seen as channels of what can be termed 'political matronage'"--From publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Dashing, daring and the seduction of political persona; title: "Just doing dashing" in uncertain places; title: Performance, dashing, image; title: The poetics and politics of the dashing ladies; title: Political machinations, electoral campaigns and the texture of politics; title: The public event : political spectacle and public sites of dashing; title: Intimate politics and alliance-building; title: Women, urban wisdom and the illicit politics of housing in Mumbai; title: Politics and the relations of domesticity; title: The gendered politics of the Malkin in Pune City.