TY  - GEN
AU  - Desai,Manali
TI  - State Formation and Radical Democracy in India
SN  - 9780203967744
PY  - 2007///
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - Regional studies
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Development studies
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Ethnic studies
KW  - Political structures: democracy
KW  - International relations
KW  - lower
KW  - caste
KW  - princely
KW  - travancore
KW  - congress
KW  - party
KW  - narayana
KW  - guru
KW  - upper
KW  - protest
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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 life chances. Going back to pre-independence, colonial India, Manali Desai takes a long historical view of Kerala and compares it with the state of West Bengal, which like Kerala has been ruled by leftists but has not had the same degree of success in raising equal access to welfare, literacy, and basic subsistence. This comparison brings the role of left party formation and its mode of insertion in civil society to the fore, raising the question of what kinds of parties can effect the most substantive anti-poverty reforms within a vibrant democracy.         This book offers a new, historically based explanation for Kerala’s post-independence political and economic direction
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24128/1/1006003.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24128/1/1006003.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/28402
ER  -