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Democracy against development : lower-caste politics and political modernity in postcolonial India / Jeffrey Witsoe.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: South Asia across the disciplinesPublication details: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2013]Description: x, 243 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780226063164 (cloth : alkaline paper)
  • 9780226063478 (paperback : alkaline paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.560954123
LOC classification:
  • DS422.C3 W58 2013
Contents:
State formation, caste formation, and the emergence of a lower-caste politics -- Lalu Yadav's Bihar : an incomplete revolution -- Caste in the state : division and conflict within the Bihar government -- Caste, regional politics, and territoriality -- A multiple village : caste divisions, democratic practice, and territorialities -- A multiple caste : intra-caste divisions and the contradictions of development -- The fall of Lalu Yadav and the meaning of lower-caste politics.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-236) and index.

State formation, caste formation, and the emergence of a lower-caste politics -- Lalu Yadav's Bihar : an incomplete revolution -- Caste in the state : division and conflict within the Bihar government -- Caste, regional politics, and territoriality -- A multiple village : caste divisions, democratic practice, and territorialities -- A multiple caste : intra-caste divisions and the contradictions of development -- The fall of Lalu Yadav and the meaning of lower-caste politics.

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