Social and political change in Uttar Pradesh
Subtitle: European perspectives
By: edited by Roger Jeffery and Jens Lerche.
Contributors: Jeffery, Roger.; Lerche, Jens.
Publisher: Manohar
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Social classes -- India -- Uttar Pradesh.; Uttar Pradesh (India) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.; Uttar Pradesh (India) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Description: With reference to changes in Uttar pradesh, India since 1970; contributed articles.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-312) and index.
Table of contents: title: Uttar Pradesh : into the twenty-first century / Jens Lerche, Roger Jeffery; title: Development priorities : views from below in UP / G.K. Lieten; title: A Uniform customary Code? : marital breakdown and women's economic entitlements in rural Bijnor / Patricia Jeffery; title: Responses to modernity : female education, gender relations and regional identity in the Hills of Uttar Pradesh / Joanne Moller; title: Divided we stand : identity and protest in the demand for a separate hill state in the UP hills / Emma Mawdsley; title: The BJP and the rise of Dalits in Uttar Pradesh / Christophe Jaffrelot, Jasmine Zerinni-Brotel, Jayati Chaturvedi; title: Hamlet, village and region : caste and class differences between low-caste mobilization in East and West UP / Jens Lerche; title: Modelling institutional fate : the case of a farmers' movement in Uttar Pradesh / Staffan Lindberg, Stig Toft Madsen; title: Soft states, hard bargains : rich farmers, class reproduction and the local state in rural North India / Craig Jeffery; title: The newspapers of Lucknow : journalism and modernity / Per Stahlberg; title: Creative television in the Siti of Varanasi : television and public spheres in the satellite era / Simon Roberts.