Democracy, Development, and the Countryside - Urban-Rural Struggles in India

Zusammenfassung What happens to the rural folk - to their power and economic well-being - when development takes place in a democratic framework? Focusing on India! where an exceptional democratic system has flourished for four decades! this book examines how the rural sector uses its numbers in a democracy to further its economic and political interests. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; 1. Town-Country struggles in development; 2. Nehru's agricultural policy: a Reconstruction; 3. Policy change in the mid-1960s; 4. Rise of Agrarian power in the 1970s; 5. Organizing the countryside in the 1980s; 6. Has rural India lost out?; 7. Paradoxes of power and the intracacies of economic policy; 8. Conclusion: democracy and the countryside; Endnotes.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Ashutosh Varshney, Ashutosh (Harvard University Varshney
• Con la collaborazione di: Robert H. Bates (Editore), Peter Lange (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 18.09.1998
• EAN: 9780521646253
• ISBN: 978-0-521-64625-3
• Pagine: 232
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Comparati
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Economia politica