TY - BOOK AU - Chatterjee, Partha. TI - State and politics in India SN - 0195647653 U1 - 320.954 PY - 1997/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press, KW - Politics KW - Political parties KW - Elections KW - Local government KW - Decentralization KW - Social movements N1 - Introduction: a political history of independent India / Partha Chatterjee -- A critique of the passive revolution / Sudipta Kaviraj -- Parties and the party system / James Manor -- India decides: elections 1952-1995 / David Butler, Ashok Lahiri and Prannoy Roy -- Reconfiguration in Indian politics: state assembly elections 1993-1995 / Yogendra Yadav -- Evolving trends in the bureaucracy / B.P.R. Vithal -- Impact of centre--state relations on Indian politics: an interpretative reckoning 1947-1987 / T.V. Sathyamurthy -- Development planning and the Indian state / Partha Chatterjee -- National power and local politics in India: a twenty-year perspective / Paul Brass. (cont.) From breakdown to order: West Bengal / Atul Kohli -- Culture and subaltern consciousness: an aspect of the MGR phenomenon / M.S.S. Pandian -- When local riots are not merely local: bringing the state back in, Bijnor 1988-1992 / Amrita Basu -- Rise of the Dalits and the renewed debate on caste / Rajni Kothari -- India's minorities: Who are they? What do they want? / Myron Weiner -- Politics of subnationalism: society versus state in Assam / Sanjib Baruah -- Protecting women against violence?: review of a decade of legislation, 1980-1989 / Flavia Agnes ER -