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Democracy, Development, and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India - Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics Varshney, Ashutosh (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
Democracy, Development, and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India - Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Varshney, Ashutosh (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
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.
232 pages, 16 b/w illus. 8 tables
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | September 18, 1998 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521646253 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 232 |
| Dimensions | 228 × 151 × 20 mm · 358 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Bates, Robert H. (Harvard University) |
| Series Editor | Comisso, Ellen |
| Series Editor | Hall, Peter |
| Series Editor | Lange, Peter |
| Series Editor | Migdal, Joel S. |
| Series Editor | Milner, Helen V. |