Political Science · Political Theory
UGC NET June 2019 Political Science
'New Democracy' as hegemony of the workers, peasants and other marginalised sections of the society is associated with which one of the following?
ASubaltern School ✓ Correct
BMarxist School
CPost-behavioural School
DPost-modernist School
Correct answer: (A) Subaltern School — New Democracy as the hegemony of workers, peasants and other marginalised sections is associated with the Subaltern School.
Explanation
★New Democracy as the hegemony of workers, peasants and other marginalised sections is associated with the Subaltern School.
★Subaltern studies focus on the histories and agency of groups excluded from dominant power structures.
★It looks at the colonial, social, economic and cultural margins rather than at elite politics.
★Ranajit Guha is a leading figure of this school, recovering the voices of the disenfranchised.
★The Marxist, post-behavioural and post-modernist schools do not centre this idea in the same way.
★So the Subaltern School is the correct answer.
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