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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2016.
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| Colección: | Bloomsbury academic collections. History and politics in the 20th century : postcolonialism.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword ; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 India on the threshold of the eighties; 2 The countryside; 3 Land: radical laws and tardy reforms; 4 West Bengal: a Marxist alternative; 5 Caste : a factor affecting social change; 6 Corruption: a factor affecting social change; 7 The Scheduled Castes; 8 Reservations; 9 The tribes of India; 10 Losers in the development process: Bhil tribals of South Rajasthan; 11 Losers in the assimilation process: the tribals of Chotanagpur; Conclusion; Postscript-November 1985; Notes; Bibliography