Free Download Sudha Pai, "Political Process in Uttar Pradesh: Identity Economic Reforms and Governance"
English | 2007 | pages: 466 | ISBN: 8131707970 | PDF | 88,0 mb
Throughout the 1990s, identities constructed around 'Hindutva', 'Mandal' and 'Dalit' drove mass politics in Uttar Pradesh as political parties mobilized and divided the electorate along the lines of social cleavages. The collapse of the Congress party led to a fragmented multi-party system with narrower identity-based parties, new strategies of mobilization and sharp contests in electoral politics resulting in political instability and coalition governments. Simultaneously, UP has also experienced since the early 1990s a steep deterioration in its economic growth rate and fiscal health leading to a severe financial crisis. The analysis of the twin developments of political transformation and economic reform in the wake of liberalization policies, and their role in refashioning the political process in the state has importance beyond UP in understanding the new political system with its strengths and weaknesses emerging in the country. The essays in this volume explore theoretically and with reference to empirical data, the interlinkages between identities based on caste and community, democratic politics, the process of development, economic reform and governance in UP since the late 1980s. Such a framework enables an analysis of the multifaceted crisis that has gripped the state and is responsible for the downward slide that it has experienced over the last decade. Table Of Contents: Historical Roots of Identity in Uttar Pradesh Re-examining `Region' and `Heartland': Uttar Pradesh in the First Decade of Independence Gyanesh Kudaisya Some Aspects of Political Mobilization in the Uttar Pradesh in the 1930s and 1940s Visalakshi Menon Politics of Coalition: Pathway to Communalism? Salil Mishra Politics of Identity, Parties and Electoral Politics in Uttar Pradesh A Case of Majoritarianism Unpacked: Trials and Tribulations of Bhartiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh Abhay Dubey The Rise and Fall of Hindutva in Uttar Pradesh: 1989-2004 Smita Gupta BJP's Political St