Government As Practice - Democratic Left in a Transforming India

Informationen zum Autor Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya works at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was previously Professor of Political Science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. A recipient of a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship, a Nehru Cambridge Trust Scholarship, a Churchill College Honorary Fellowship and a DAAD Fellowship, he has held visiting positions at Claremont University, USA; Massey University, New Zealand; and Gottingen University, Germany. Klappentext This book situates 'government as practice' as a prism for critical thinking on democratic politics in postcolonial India. Zusammenfassung The democratic Left in India is in crisis. By looking at the problematics of government from the days of deft land reforms to messy land acquisition! this book situates 'government as practice' as a prism for critical thinking on democratic politics in postcolonial India. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Inception: government as practice; 2. Consolidation: land reforms; 3. Agency: school teachers; 4. Machinery: party society; 5. Implosion: Singur, Nandigram; Appendix 1. The Left through elections; Appendix 2. Local governance and electability; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9781107102262
• ISBN: 978-1-107-10226-2
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: South Asia in the Social Sciences; South Asia in the Social Sciences; South Asia in the Social Scien
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, India, Political structures: democracy, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Political structures / systems: democracy