02476nam 22005531 450 991080730770332120180906093332.01-4742-9113-91-4742-9112-010.5040/9781474291132(CKB)3710000000840840(EBL)4659883(MiAaPQ)EBC4659883(Au-PeEL)EBL4659883(CaPaEBR)ebr11252552(OCoLC)957525052(OCoLC)1090446200(UtOrBLW)bpp09262727(EXLCZ)99371000000084084020180205d2018 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierSocial ferment in India /Alexandra George1st ed.London :Bloomsbury Publishing,2018.1 online resource (386 p.)History and politics in the 20th century: Bloomsbury AcademicIncludes index.1-4742-9111-2 0-485-11287-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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.History and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury AcademicCasteIndiaSociety & culture: generalIndiaSocial conditions1947-Caste306/.0954George Alexandra1952-522654UtOrBLWUtOrBLWBOOK9910807307703321Social ferment in India4045084UNINA