Elusive democracy: dalit politics, elections, and the dilemmas of representation
Auteur :
Collins, Michael A.
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781009567251
Date de publication :
10 juil. 2025
Poids :
530 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Today, India is widely celebrated as the world's largest democracy. This book tells the untold story of how Dalit activists transformed a civil rights movement into a political party. Drawing on original interviews with longtime activists, the book chronicles their fraught transition into electoral democracy, and it complicated afterlife.