Democracy, Development, and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India - Rilegato

Varshney, Ashutosh

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ISBN 10: 0521441536 ISBN 13: 9780521441537

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Riassunto

This book examines how the rural sector in India uses its numbers in a democracy to further its economic and political interests.

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Descrizione del libro

What happens to the rural folk - to their power and economic well-being - when development takes place in a democratic framework? Focusing on India, where an exceptional democratic system has flourished for four decades, this book examines how the rural sector uses its numbers in a democracy to further its economic and political interests.

Contenuti

Preface; Introduction; 1. Town-Country struggles in development; 2. Nehru's agricultural policy: a Reconstruction; 3. Policy change in the mid-1960s; 4. Rise of Agrarian power in the 1970s; 5. Organizing the countryside in the 1980s; 6. Has rural India lost out?; 7. Paradoxes of power and the intracacies of economic policy; 8. Conclusion: democracy and the countryside; Endnotes.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521441536
• ISBN 13: 9780521441537
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 229
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile