TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rajshekhar, M.,
TI  - Despite the state : : why India lets its people down and how they cope 
SN  - ‎9788194879015
U1  - 954.0533 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Chennai
PB  - Context
KW  - India
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Social conditions
N2  - "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."--
ER  -