Despite the State: Why India Lets Its People Down and How They Cope

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Condition Note: yellow stains on some pages, no pen/pencil marks

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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.

Author: M. Rajshekhar
Publisher: Westland
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9788194879015

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Despite the State: Why India Lets Its People Down and How They Cope