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020			_a9781107117181
082			_a320.954086 _bROY-P
100			_aRoy, Indrajit
245		0	_aPolitics of the poor _b: negotiating democracy in contemporary India
260			_aDelhi _bCambridge University Press _c2018
300			_axxi, 521p
440			_aSouth Asia in the social sciences
504			_aincludes bibliography and index
520			_aThis 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			_aPoor _vPolitical activity _zIndia
650			_aDemocracy _vSocial aspects _zIndia
650			_aMarginality _vSocial-Political aspects _zIndia
700			_aChatterjee, Partha
942			_cBK _2ddc