In this book, the author investigates this counternarrative, uncovering an antagonistic relationship between recent democratic mobilization and development-oriented governace in India. The author looks at the history of colonialism in India and its role in both shaping modern caste identities and linking locally powerful caste groups to state institutions, which has effectively created a postcolonial patronage state. He then looks at the rise of lower-caste politics in one of India's poorest and most populous states, Bihar, showing how this increase in democratic participation has radically threatened the patronage state by systematically weakening its institutions and disrupting its development projects.

ISBN 13: 9789390430994

ISBN 10: 9390430992

Year: 2021

Language: ENGLISH

Pages etc.: x+244p., ind., 25cm.

Binding: Hardbound

Subject(s): Politics