Democracy and Discontent : India's Growing Crisis of Governability
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
- xi, 420p. ; 24 cm.
An overview of the study -- Some conceptual and theoretical considerations -- The Growing Problems of Governing the Periphery: Politics in the Districts -- Introduction: the districts -- Kheda, Gujarat -- Guntur, Andhra Pradesh -- Belgaun, Karnataka -- Calcutta, West Bengal -- Madurai, Tamil Nadu -- Conclusion: the districts -- Order and Breakdown in the States -- Introduction: the states -- Breakdown in a "backward" state: Bihar -- Growing turmoil in an "advanced" state: Gujarat -- From breakdown to order: West Bengal -- Conclusion: the states -- Centralization and Powerlessness at the Center -- Introduction: the Center -- Managing the economy: halfhearted liberalization -- Managing the troubled political institutions: the Congress party and relations with Punjab -- Conclusion: the Center -- Political change in a democratic developing country.