TY  - GEN
AU  - Desai,Manali
TI  - State Formation and Radical Democracy in India
T2  - Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations
SN  - 9780203967744
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - Literary studies: postcolonial literature
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Social and ethical issues
KW  - Regional / International studies
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Tamil Nadu
KW  - lower
KW  - Congress Party
KW  - caste
KW  - Lower Caste
KW  - princely
KW  - Literacy Rates
KW  - travancore
KW  - Princely State
KW  - congress
KW  - Lower Caste Movements
KW  - party
KW  - Civil Society
KW  - narayana
KW  - Nationalist Movement
KW  - guru
KW  - Mainstream Nationalist Movement
KW  - upper
KW  - Lower Caste Protest
KW  - protest
KW  - West Bengal
KW  - Civil Disobedience Movements
KW  - Left Party
KW  - UN
KW  - Andhra Pradesh
KW  - Welfare Reforms
KW  - Travancore State
KW  - CSP
KW  - Congress Socialists
KW  - Swaraj Party
N1  - Open Access
N2  - State Formation and Radical Democracy in India analyzes one of the most important cases of developmental change in the twentieth century, namely, Kerala in southern India and begs the question of whether insurgency among the marginalized poor can use formal representative democracy to create better life chances. Going back to pre-independence, colonial India, Manali Desai takes a long historical view of Kerala and compares it with the state of West Bengal, which like Kerala has been ruled by leftists but has not had the same degree of success in raising equal access to welfare, literacy, and basic subsistence. This comparison brings the role of left party formation and its mode of insertion in civil society to the fore, raising the question of what kinds of parties can effect the most substantive anti-poverty reforms within a vibrant democracy. This book offers a new, historically based explanation for Kerala’s post-independence political and economic direction
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102229/1/9781134133321.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160048
ER  -