TY - BOOK AU - Kohli, Atul TI - Democracy and Discontent : India's Growing Crisis of Governability SN - 0521396921 U1 - 320.954 PY - 1990/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Politics and government KW - Political stability N1 - 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 ER -