Politics of the poor : negotiating democracy in contemporary India / Indrajit Roy.

By:

Roy, Indrajit [author.]

Contributor(s):

Indrajit Roy

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Delhi, India : Cambridge University Press, 2016Description: xix, 521 pages. 24 cmContent type:

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ISBN:

9781107117181 (hardback)

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DDC classification:

320.954086942 ROY

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Contents:

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.

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

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	320.954086942 ROY (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K2895

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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