State formation and radical democracy in India

State Formation and Radical Democracy in India analyzes one of the most important cases of developmental change in the twentieth century, namely, Kerala in southern India and begs the question of whether insurgency among the marginalized poor can use formal representative democracy to create better...

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Otros Autores: Desai, Manali, 1966- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge 2006.
2017.
Colección:Routledge studies in Asia's transformations.
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  • Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Old legacies, new protests: Welfare and left rule in democratic India; 2. The social bases of rule and rebellion: Colonial Kerala and Bengal, 1792-1930; 3. State formation and social movements: Colonial Kerala and Bengal compared, 1865-1930; 4. Political practices and leftascendancy in Kerala, 1920-47; 5. Structure, practices and weak left hegemony in Bengal, 1925-47; 6. Insurgent and electoral logics in policy regimes: Kerala and Bengal compared, 1947 to the present; Afterword; Notes
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