State Formation and Radical Democracy in India

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...

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Main Author: Desai, Manali (auth)
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Published: Taylor & Francis 2007
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