Includes bibliographical references and index.

Capitalist deathworlds, alternative worldmaking / Rohit Varman and Devi Vijay -- LETS and the possibilities of a twenty-first-century alternative economic system / Maidul Islam -- Democratic socialism : a challenge to sectarian plutocracy / Prabhir Vishnu Poruthiyil -- Grounded in reality, a radically alternative future / Ashish Kothari -- Harnessing constitutional and policy spaces for organized resistance : movement to save Hasdeo Aranya forests / Priyanshu Gupta -- The wire and circuits of resistance : immersions in the slowness of democratic time and de-naturalizing the present / Srinath Jagannathan and Rajnish Rai -- People's Archive of Rural India (PARI) as an alternative to corporatized media : the public sphere and rural silencing in India / Apoorv Khare and Ram Manohar Vikas -- LeftWord : a heterotopic space in post-democratic India / Rohit Varman and Devi Vijay -- Exploring the state within the bottom-of-the-pyramid (BOP) terrain / Suparna Chatterjee -- A women-inclusive emancipatory alternative to corporate capitalism? The case of Kerala's state-instituted kudumbashree programme / George Kandathil, Poornima Varma and Rama Mohana R. Turaga.

"This volume studies accounts of organizations in India that resist the contemporary capitalist order and attempts to imagine alternatives. It provides a series of critical insights on the nature of the political, economic, environmental and social challenges under the current capitalist order in India; how organizations that exist within or outside the capitalist imaginary resist and contest the state quo; and how such organizations imagine an alternative world. Specifically, it traces the histories of capitalist monstrosities through the colonial encounter till today's neoliberal stage with heightened privatization, corporatization and the nexus of the state and capital. It delineates how neoliberalism creates a crisis of imagination among people. The chapters, in conversation across the book, respond to the paucity of discussions in contemporary social theory on the extraction, exploitation and violence of capitalism in India. Several chapters engage with rising authoritarianism and majoritarianism that accompany the capitalist growth story and all chapters centrally engage with how democracy may become more meaningful, participative and inclusive"-- Provided by publisher.