LEADER 02456nam 22005411 450 001 9910798678003321 005 20180906093332.0 010 $a1-4742-9113-9 010 $a1-4742-9112-0 024 7 $a10.5040/9781474291132 035 $a(CKB)3710000000840840 035 $a(EBL)4659883 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4659883 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4659883 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11252552 035 $a(OCoLC)957525052 035 $a(OCoLC)1090446200 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09262727 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000840840 100 $a20180205d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aSocial ferment in India /$fAlexandra George 210 1$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (386 p.) 225 0 $aHistory and politics in the 20th century: Bloomsbury Academic 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-4742-9111-2 311 $a0-485-11287-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1.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. 330 $a"This study explores the nature and circumstances of India's social unrest in the 1980s. The author provides an analysis of the widespread corruption among politicians and in most strata of the government machinery, the blatant discrepancy between legislation ostensibly designed to protect minorities and their actual treatments by higher castes, the administration and the jurisdiction at the time."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 410 0$aHistory and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic 606 $aCaste$zIndia 606 $2Society & culture: general 607 $aIndia$xSocial conditions$y1947- 615 0$aCaste 676 $a306/.0954 700 $aGeorge$b Alexandra$f1952-$0522654 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798678003321 996 $aSocial ferment in India$93685106 997 $aUNINA