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Title India's democracy : an analysis of changing state-society relations / edited by Atul Kohli ; contributors, Pranab Bardhan [and others] ; foreword by John P. Lewis
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1990

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 350 pages) : map
Contents Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- TABLES AND FIGURES -- PREFACE TO THE 1990 EDITION -- PREFACE -- List of Invited Participants at the Conference on "India's Democracy," held at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, March 14-16,1985 -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION. Interpreting India's Democracy: A State- Society Framework / Kohli, Atul -- ONE. Political Leadership in India: Dimensions and Limits / Hart, Henry C. -- TWO. Parties and the Party System / Manor, James -- THREE. The Military and Indian Democracy / Cohen, Stephen P. -- FOUR. Ethnicity, Democracy and Development in India: Assam in a General Perspective -- FIVE. The Punjab Crisis and the Unity of India / Brass, Paul R. -- Six. Dominant Proprietary Classes and India's Democracy / Bardhan, Pranab -- SEVEN. Middle Classes and Castes in India's Politics: Prospects for Political Accommodation / Frankel, Francine R. -- EIGHT. Grass-Roots Mobilization in Indian Politics / Shah, Ghanshyam -- CONCLUSION. State-Society Relations in India's Changing Democracy / Kohli, Atul -- EPILOGUE. India's Democracy under Rajiv Gandhi, 1985-1989 / Kohli, Atul -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PUBLICATIONS OF THE CENTER OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES -- INDEX
Summary Nine contributors analyze state-society relations in India. A new epilogue covers the Rajiv Gandhi period, leading up to the important elections of December 1989. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
Notes "First presented and discussed at a conference ... held at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, on March 14 through 16, 1985"--Preface
"Written under the auspices of the Center of International Studies, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University"--Preliminary page
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Democracy -- Congresses
Representative government and representation -- India -- Congresses
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Democracy
Politics and government
Representative government and representation
SUBJECT India -- Politics and government -- 1947- -- Congresses
Subject India
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Bardhan, Pranab K
Kohli, Atul
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Center of International Studies.
LC no. 90222836
ISBN 9781400859511
1400859514
0691601100
9780691601106
0691630860
9780691630861