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100			_aBrass Paul R
245			_aAn Indian political life : Charan Singh and Congress politics, 1937 to 1961
260			_aNew Delhi _bSage Publications _c2011
300			_a575p
365			_b Rs. 600
505			_aContent: Preface; Chronology of Principal Events in the Life of Charan Singh; I: INTRODUCTION: An Indian Political Life; II: BEGINNINGS: Social Origins, Early Life, and Beginning of a Political Career Partition and Hindu–Muslim Relations; III: TOWN VERSUS THE VILLAGE: Discrimination against the Village: Reservation of 60 Percent of Places in Government Jobs for Agriculturists (1939—62) Transformation of the Agricultural Economy of Northern India: Land Reforms and Charan Singh’s Defence of Peasant Agriculture (1946—60) Urban Development and the Peasantry: Land Acquisition in Ghaziabad and the Cultivators (1950—2009); IV: LAW AND ORDER, CORRUPTION, AND CRIMINALITY IN POST-INDEPENDENCE UTTAR PRADESH: Corruption and Anti-Corruption (1947—51) Integrity and Reputation in a Corrupt System (1948—57) Origins of the “Permit–License–Quota Raj” (1949) Land Grabbing and Land Development in the Tarai (1952—55) The Political Economy of the Hindu Joint Family (1959) Political Parties and Crime in Early Post-Independence Uttar Pradesh (1954—61) V: STATUS, HIERARCHY, AND GENDER: A Death in the Family: Status, Hierarchy, and Gender in the Indian Bureaucratic System (1950); Vi: CASTE, FACTION, AND PARTY : Caste, “Casteism,” and “Communalism” before and after the First General Elections (1947—56) The Struggle for Control of Meerut District (1954—56) The Leader and His Followers: Loyalty, Betrayal, and Trust (1949—69) Resignation After Resignation: Charan Singh in the Governments of Pandit Pant and Dr Sampurnanand (1947—59); VII: CONCLUSION: Power, Principle, and Policy; Appendix; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
650			_a1. Prime Ministers - India - Biography2. Politics & Government - India3. Economic Policy - Singh Charan
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