Politics of the poor negotiating democracy in contemporary India

Roy, Indrajit

Politics of the poor negotiating democracy in contemporary India - New Delhi Cambridge University Press 2018 - xix,521p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : against false binaries -- Poverty, democracy and political spaces -- From clientelism to citizenship? : the politics of supplications -- From moral vocabularies to languages of stateness? : the politics of applications -- From backwardness to improvement? : the politics of disputation -- From tradition to modernity? : the politics of identification -- Conclusion.

"Analyses the ways in which the poor engage with politics, highlighting the often contradictory and entangled means by which they advance their claims"--

9781107117181

2016013218


Poor--Political activity--India.
Democracy--Social aspects--India.
Marginality, Social--Political aspects--India.
Political participation--India.

HC440.P6 / R685 2016

320.954086942 / RO-P

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