agrarian class conflict
Agrarian Unrest
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Central Election Committee
Central Government
Chandra Sekhar
civil-military relations India
Communist Parties
comparative authoritarianism
Congress Dominance
Congress High Command
Congress Working Committee
CPI Leadership
cultural assimilation
DMK Regime
emergency rule analysis
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Indian Military
Indian political institutions
internal emergency
Jagjivan Ram
Kisan Sabhas
National Academy
National Democratic State
Nominated Chief Ministers
Panchayati Raj
Parliamentary Board
party system transformation
political change theories developing countries
Public Administration
quasi-dictatorship
Quit India Resolution
rural class conflict
Rural Poor
Single Member Districts
social mobilization
Subsistence Villages
Tamil Nadu
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367020637
- Weight: 880g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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India, credited with the best institutionalized democracy of the Third World, changed in 1975, apparently overnight and at the decision of one individual, to a quasi-dictatorship. A transformation so remarkable prompted eight scholars of Indian politics to reexamine the sectors of the system they know well, seeking explanations. They reappraise the carry-over of colonial institutions and procedures, the distribution of power in the ruling party, business influence, the roles of the divided Communist parties, the position of the administrative corps and of the army, and unrest among the rural poor at its most volatile, in the state of Bihar. An introduction shows just what Mrs. Gandhi changed, the situation that triggered her action, and the justification she advances. A concluding chapter tests the facts of the Indian transformation against four major theories of political change in the developing world: projection into politics of personality conflicts of the leader, agrarian class conflict, social mobilization, and cultural assimilation and institutionalization.
