Roy, Indrajit, <br/><br/>
Politics of the poor :  negotiating democracy in contemporary India / 
Indrajit Roy. 
 - xix, 521 pages.   24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "Analyses the ways in which the poor engage with politics, highlighting the often contradictory and entangled means by which they advance their claims"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781107117181 (hardback) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2016013218 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Poor--Political activity--India.<br/>Democracy--Social aspects--India.<br/>Marginality, Social--Political aspects--India.<br/>Political participation--India.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.954086942 ROY