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Social ferment in India / Alexandra George.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- George, Alexandra, 1952- author.
- Series:
- History and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic
- History and politics in the 20th century: Bloomsbury Academic
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caste--India.
- Caste.
- India--Social conditions--1947-.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (386 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.
- Summary:
- "This study explores the nature and circumstances of India's social unrest in the 1980s. The author provides an analysis of the widespread corruption among politicians and in most strata of the government machinery, the blatant discrepancy between legislation ostensibly designed to protect minorities and their actual treatments by higher castes, the administration and the jurisdiction at the time."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Contents:
- 1.India on the threshold of the eighties
- 2.The countryside
- 3.Land: radical laws and tardy reforms
- 4.West Bengal: a Marxist alternative
- 5.Caste: a factor affecting social change
- 6.Corruption: a factor affecting social change
- 7.The Scheduled Castes
- 8.Reservations
- 9.The tribes of India
- 10.Losers in the development process: Bhil tribals of South Rajasthan
- 11.Losers in the assimilation process: the tribals of Chotanagpur.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781474291132
- 1474291139
- 9781474291125
- 1474291120
- OCLC:
- 957525052
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