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Democracy, development, and the countryside : urban-rural struggles in India Ashutosh Varshney

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Cambridge studies in comparative politicsPublication details: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1995Description: 214 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780521646253
Subject(s):
Contents:
Town-country struggles in development : a brief overview of existing theories -- Nehru's agricultural policy : a reconstruction (1947-1964) -- Policy change in the mid-1960's -- The rise of agrarian power in the 1970's -- Organizing the countryside in the 1980's -- Has rural India lost out? -- The paradoxes of power and the intricacies of economic policy -- Democracy and the countryside.
Summary: Several scholars have written about how authoritarian or democratic political systems affect industrialization in the developing countries. There is no literature, however, on whether or not democracy makes a difference to the power and well-being of the countryside. Through the example of India, which enjoys the longest-surviving democracy of the developing world, this book investigates how the countryside uses the political system to advance its interests.
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Book Book Main Library Open Shelf HN690.Z9 VAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 146386 Available BK131705
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Includes bibliographical references and index

Town-country struggles in development : a brief overview of existing theories --
Nehru's agricultural policy : a reconstruction (1947-1964) --
Policy change in the mid-1960's --
The rise of agrarian power in the 1970's --
Organizing the countryside in the 1980's --
Has rural India lost out? --
The paradoxes of power and the intricacies of economic policy --
Democracy and the countryside.

Several scholars have written about how authoritarian or democratic political systems affect industrialization in the developing countries. There is no literature, however, on whether or not democracy makes a difference to the power and well-being of the countryside. Through the example of India, which enjoys the longest-surviving democracy of the developing world, this book investigates how the countryside uses the political system to advance its interests.

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