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An Indian Political Life : Charan Singh and Congress Politics, 1937 to 1961.
The book is the result of a careful study of Charan Singh's personal collection of political files coupled with a series of extensive interviews with politicians, public personalities, and the local people. This book is much more than the biography of an important politician-it is also an analy...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Delhi :
SAGE Publications,
2011.
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| Colección: | Politics of Northern India.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; For our Readers; Contents; List of Tables, Figures, and Maps; Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I: Introduction; Chapter 1: An Indian Political Life; PART II: Beginnings; Chapter 2: Social Origins, Early Life, and Beginning of a Political Career; Chapter 3: Partition and Hindu-Muslim Relations; PART III: Town Versus the Village; Chapter 4: Discrimination against the Village: Reservation of 60 Percent of Places in Government Jobs for Agriculturists (1939-62)
- Chapter 5: Transformation of the Agricultural Economy of Northern India: Land Reforms and Charan Singh's Defense of Peasant Agriculture (1946-60)Chapter 6: Urban Development and the Peasantry: Land Acquisition in Ghaziabad and the Cultivators (1950-2009); Part IV: Law and Order, Corruption, and Criminality in Post-Independence Uttar Pradesh; Chapter 7: Corruption and Anti-corruption (1947-51); Chapter 8: Integrity and Reputation in a Corrupt System (1948-57); Chapter 9: Origins of the "Permit-License-Quota Raj" (1949); Chapter 10: Land Grabbing and Land Development in the Tarai (1952-55)
- Chapter 11: The Political Economy of the Hindu Joint Family (1959)Chapter 12: Political Parties and Crime in Early Post-Independence Uttar Pradesh (1954-61); PART V: Status, Hierarchy, and Gender; Chapter 13: A Death in the Family: Status, Hierarchy, and Gender in the Indian Bureaucratic System (1950)*; PART VI: Caste, Faction, and Party; Chapter 14: Caste, "Casteism," and "Communalism" before and after the First General Elections (1947-56); Chapter 15: The Struggle for Control of Meerut District (1954-56); Chapter 16: The Leader and His Followers: Loyalty, Betrayal, and Trust (1949-69)
- Chapter 17: Resignation after Resignation: Charan Singh in the Governments of Pandit Pant and Dr. Sampurnanand (1947-59)PART VII: Conclusion; Chapter 18: Power, Principle, and Policy; APPENDIX Brief Biographies of Persons Mentioned Prominently in Volume I; GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR