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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on December 9, 2008
Community Development Journal 2009 44(1):130-132; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsn037
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State Formation and Radical Democracy in India

Leslie Sklair

London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

email: L.Sklair@lse.ac.uk

Edited by Manali Desai, Routledge, London and New York, 2007, xii + 185 pp., ISBN 978-0-415-40769-4, £75.

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Since the advent of democratic electoral systems, some deeply flawed others less deeply flawed, a major question for communities all round the world has always been: will my participation in politics make any difference? Manali Desai's book engages with this question in the context of the Indian states of Kerala and Bengal from colonial rule through to Indian independence and thereafter. This context appears at first sight to be esoteric and arcane, but, in fact, turns out to have striking similarities with and lessons for almost everywhere in the world today. In its attempt to explain the special . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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