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State Formation and Radical Democracy in India analyzes one of the mostimportant cases of developmental change in the twentieth century namelyKerala in southern India and begs the question of whether insurgency among themarginalized poor can use formal representative democracy to create better lifechances. Going back to preindependence colonial India Manali Desai takes along historical view of Kerala and compares it with the state of West Bengalwhich like Kerala has been ruled by leftists but has not had the same degree ofsuccess in raising equal access to welfare literacy and basic subsistence.This comparison brings the role of left party formation and its mode ofinsertion in civil society to the fore raising the question of what kinds ofparties can effect the most substantive antipoverty reforms within a vibrantdemocracy.This book offers a new historically based explanation for Keralas postindependence political and economic direction. «
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