Prabhat Patnaik

So this is, you can see this entry or this way I'm leaning on, say, third world Marxist accounts or world systems accounts.

Now, the issue that I have, though, the limit that I find with third world Marxist accounts that I'm trying to address in the book, but I also think the later work of Utsa and Prabhat Patnaik is also addressing, I think Amin does do it in a different way.

There's a way in which that Western Marxist account that I described, It generates qualitatively new categories.

So you have capital and labor.

Its loosely organised character made the movement difficult for the BJP to decapitate.

Prabhat Patnaik notes that the ruling party is adept at isolating, buying, threatening and defaming leaders, but in this case there were few recognised leaders to target.

Just as importantly, Jantar Mantar became something the BJP-aligned Hindu nationalist paramilitary groups have worked so hard to prevent, a site of common struggle among Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs and Buddhists along lines of caste and region.

Achievements notwithstanding, however, what the government conceded was a head, not a policy.