Despite the state : why India lets its people down and how they cope /
Rajshekhar, M.,
Despite the state : why India lets its people down and how they cope / M. Rajshekhar ; afterword by V. Geetha. - Chennai : Context, 2021. - 289 p.
"The story of democratic failure is usually read at the level of the nation, while the primary bulwarks of democratic functioning—the states—get overlooked. This is a tale of India’s states, of why they build schools but do not staff them with teachers; favour a handful of companies so much that others slip into losses; wage water wars with their neighbours while allowing rampant sand mining and groundwater extraction; harness citizens’ right to vote but brutally crack down on their right to dissent. Reporting from six states over thirty-three months, award-winning investigative journalist M. Rajshekhar delivers a necessary account of a deep crisis that has gone largely unexamined."--
9788194879015 pbk.
India Politics and government
India Social conditions
954.0533
Despite the state : why India lets its people down and how they cope / M. Rajshekhar ; afterword by V. Geetha. - Chennai : Context, 2021. - 289 p.
"The story of democratic failure is usually read at the level of the nation, while the primary bulwarks of democratic functioning—the states—get overlooked. This is a tale of India’s states, of why they build schools but do not staff them with teachers; favour a handful of companies so much that others slip into losses; wage water wars with their neighbours while allowing rampant sand mining and groundwater extraction; harness citizens’ right to vote but brutally crack down on their right to dissent. Reporting from six states over thirty-three months, award-winning investigative journalist M. Rajshekhar delivers a necessary account of a deep crisis that has gone largely unexamined."--
9788194879015 pbk.
India Politics and government
India Social conditions
954.0533