num_pages: 232
description: 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.
language: English
title: Democracy, Development, and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India
titlecomplete: Democracy, Development, and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
genres: India, Political Science
ratings_count: 10
series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
publisher: Cambridge University Press