Quest for Power Oppositional Movements and Post-Congress Politics in Uttar Pradesh,9780195641844

Quest for Power Oppositional Movements and Post-Congress Politics in Uttar Pradesh

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ISBN13: 9780195641844
ISBN10: 0195641841
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-08-27
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

Setting the analysis in a broader trajectory of change in Indian society and politics, this book explores the growth of the oppositional politics of farmers, other Backward Classes and Hindulva in Utta Pradesh and its majoritarian reformulation that contributed to the decimation of the Congress Party in the 1980s.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1(16)
Social Conflict and Political Discontent: The Historic Decline of the Congress
17(53)
Agrarian Change and Rural Unrest: Farmers in the Forefront
70(51)
Other Backward Classes and Competitive Mobilizations: Recasting the Political Order
121(54)
Ayodhya Movement and the Politics of Communal Compromise: The Struggle to Control Uttar Pradesh
175(59)
Interpreting Political Change
234(11)
Appendices 245(11)
Bibliography 256(17)
Index 273

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