Despite the state : why India lets its people down and how they cope / M. Rajshekhar ; afterword by V. Geetha.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: Chennai : Context, 2021.Description: 289 pISBN:- 9788194879015
- 23 954.0533
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"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."--
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