Social Ferment in India

This study explores the nature and circumstances of India''s social unrest in the 1980s. The author provides an analysis of the widespread corruption among politicians and in most strata of the government machinery, the blatant discrepancy between legislation ostensibly designed to protect minorities and their actual treatments by higher castes, the administration and the jurisdiction at the time.>

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• Authors: Alexandra George, George Alexandra
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.10.2016
• EAN: 9781474291118
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-9111-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: History and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic; History and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, India, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Asian History, Demonstrations & protest movements, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, HISTORY / Asia / South / India