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Rise of the Plebeians?
The Changing Face of the Indian Legislative Assemblies
Series: Exploring the Political in South Asia
For decades, India has been a conservative democracy governed by the upper caste notables coming from the urban bourgeoisie, the landowning aristocracy and the intelligentsia. The democratisation of the ‘world’s largest democracy’ started with the rise of peasants’ parties and the politicisation of...
Published March 8th 2009 by Routledge India