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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798678003321

Autore

George Alexandra <1952->

Titolo

Social ferment in India / / Alexandra George

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2018

ISBN

1-4742-9113-9

1-4742-9112-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (386 p.)

Collana

History and politics in the 20th century: Bloomsbury Academic

Disciplina

306/.0954

Soggetti

Caste - India

India Social conditions 1947-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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.