1. Introduction: Transformative Action, The Promise and Intractable Conflicts 2. ‘Flooding Us Out with Money’: Movements against Displacement in Central India 3. News Frames, Conflict and Myth-Making 4. Reframing the Debate: The Tribal Question and Contemporaneity 5. Large Dams as ‘Temples of Modern India’? An Obituary to Nehruvian Techno-Political Dreams and a Plea for Gandhian Ethics 6. Why India Failed the Left? A Relook at the Politics within the Mainstream Left Movement in India 7. Individual?Territory?Movement Nexus in Armed Movement Resilience: Case of the Maoist Movement in Warangal, Telangana 8. Making Resistance: Narratives of Communist-Led Agrarian Movements in Contemporary India 9. Mobilizing for Science Democratizing Movements: Lessons from the Experience of People’s Science Movements in India 10. The Passion of Woman: Sisterhood in Work, Worship and the Vernacular 11. The Climate Change Discourse in India: Is a Social Movement Possible?