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I don’t mean in terms of student elections (since NLUs don’t have such organised political elections) but in terms of general ideology and student activities. At NLUs, I would say Gen X and Gen Y were more Marxist, but Gen Z is heavily Marxist-Leninist-Ambedkarite.
As I understand it, the Marxist faction at JNU is Bengali and Malayali -dominated, plus draws people from urban India and English-speaking backgrounds. It is cosmopolitan and internationalist, and pays more attention to class than caste. They pay a lot of attention to theory. They look up to Gramsci, Althusser, Spivak etc and see the subaltern as dominated by capitalist exploitation. The Marxist-Leninist-Ambedkarite faction is Bihar-UP-Telangana backward caste dominated, plus mostly rural students. It is is radical and regional, since casteism has historically been dominant in these states and in rural India. They look up to people like Periyar, Kanshi Ram, Lalu Yadav etc and believe in confrontation and earthy language, giving more attention to praxis than theory. They see English-language writings on class as capital as elitist. We got a demo of this during the infamous Gayatri Spivak lecture at JNU, when she scolded a Dalit student from Bihar for not pronouncing DuBois correctly. He gave it back to her on X, calling her a “Brahmin bh and b**d” and pointing to her caste privilege. Prof Ajay Gudavarthy explained the issue in The Wire.
https://m.thewire.in/article/caste/the-gayatri-spivak-controversy-exploring-the-implosion-of-subalternity-in-public-discourse/amp