| 000 -LEADER |
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| fixed length control field |
01708nam a2200205Ia 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9781107117181 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
320.954086 |
| Item number |
ROY-P |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME |
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| Personal name |
Roy, Indrajit |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Politics of the poor |
| Sub Title |
: negotiating democracy in contemporary India |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication |
Delhi |
| Name of publisher |
Cambridge University Press |
| Year of publication |
2018 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Number of Pages |
xxi, 521p |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE |
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| Title |
South Asia in the social sciences |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
includes bibliography and index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
This book challenges the ongoing scholarly debates on poor people's negotiations with democracy. It demonstrates the varied ways in which the poor engage with their elected representatives, political mediators and dominant classes in order to advance their claims. Roy explains the variations by directing attention to the dynamic interaction between the opportunity structures available to the poor and the social relations of power in which they are embedded. He analyses these intersections as 'political spaces' which both enable and constrain popular practices. Through an examination of the 'political spaces' available to the poor in four different localities, Roy outlines a new analytic framework for understanding poor people's politics. Based on these observations, the book makes a strong case for an approach to democracy that appreciates people's ambivalences towards democracy. Roy urges researchers of democracy to step beyond either enthusiastic narratives - the inevitability of democracy or apocalyptic accounts of democracy's impending death. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Poor |
| Form subdivision |
Political activity |
| Geographic subdivision |
India |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Democracy |
| Form subdivision |
Social aspects |
| Geographic subdivision |
India |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Marginality |
| Form subdivision |
Social-Political aspects |
| Geographic subdivision |
India |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Chatterjee, Partha |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Books |
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