The Double Life of Dissent: Art, Politics and the Predicaments of Democracy in India

Malvika Maheshwari

Studies in Indian Politics, 2021, vol. 9, issue 2, 165-178

Abstract: The article focuses on two moments in India’s political history, in which out-rightly expressed dissent underlines analytical shifts in the nature and course of the country’s democracy. It asks two questions: First, what does a self-proclaimed, democratic state do with peaceful dissenting artists? The second question follows from this. If indeed the state stigmatizes and suppresses that dissent, what does the artist do? By foregrounding the relationship between the dissent and offence-taking, the article shows the increasingly complex changes in the nature of the democratic state, role of the art market therein, the dynamic patterns of dissent itself, which underline the cyclic outbursts of violence against artists.

Keywords: Democracy; dissent; market; art; violence; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/23210230211043019

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