Democracy against Development
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Democracy against Development

Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India

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Democracy against Development

Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India

About this book

Hidden behind the much-touted success story of India's emergence as an economic superpower is another, far more complex narrative of the nation's recent history, one in which economic development is frequently countered by profoundly unsettling, and often violent, political movements. In Democracy against Development, Jeffrey Witsoe investigates this counter-narrative, uncovering an antagonistic relationship between recent democratic mobilization and development-oriented governance in India.
            
Witsoe 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. By depicting democracy and development as they truly are in India—in tension—Witsoe reveals crucial new empirical and theoretical insights about the long-term trajectory of democratization in the larger postcolonial world. 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Title Page
  4. Series Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Democracy and the Politics of Caste
  9. 1. State Formation, Caste Formation, and the Emergence of a Lower-Caste Politics
  10. 2. Lalu Yadav’s Bihar: An Incomplete Revolution
  11. 3. Caste in the State: Division and Conflict within the Bihar Government
  12. 4. Caste, Regional Politics, and Territoriality
  13. 5. A Multiple Village: Caste Divisions, Democratic Practice, and Territorialities
  14. 6. A Multiple Caste: Intra-caste Divisions and the Contradictions of Development
  15. 7. The Fall of Lalu Yadav and the Meaning of Lower-Caste Politics
  16. Notes
  17. Reference List
  18. Index