Democracy, Development, and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

by Ashutosh Varshney

What happens to the rural folk--to their power and economic well-being--when development takes place in a democratic framework? Focusing on India where, unlike most of the developing world, a democratic system has flourished for four decades, this book investigates how the rural sector uses its numbers in a democracy to further its economic and political interests. The book also argues that identities constitute a powerful constraint on the pursuit of economic interests.

Genres: India, Politics, Political Science

232 pages, Paperback

First published April 28, 1995

About the author

Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences, Department of Political Science, and Watson Institute of International Studies Director, Brown-India Initiative, Brown University.

EDUCATION:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.
Ph.D. in Political Science.
S.M. in Political Science.

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
M.Phil. Studies, School of International Studies.

University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India.
Masters in Political Science, and B.A.

Reviews

[John Hess]

goddamn you ashutosh varshney i was going to write this book