On the problem of regionalism in Orissa, 1947-1978.

This look at economic development in India focuses on interactions between the central state and regional elites. India is widely regarded as a "failed" developmental state, seemingly the exception that belies the prediction of a triumphant Asian century.

The essays in this book compare and analyze political processes in eight states within the Indian Union. A long introductory chapter by Myron Weiner sets the stage for individual studies of each state by separate scholars, namely: Myron Weiner (MIT) on Political Development in the Indian States; Paul H. Brass (University of Washington) on Uttar Pradesh; Wayne Wilcox (Columbia University) on Madhya Pradesh; Ram Joshi ( S.I.E.S. College, Bombay) on Maharashtra; Balraj Puri (Editor, Kashmir Affairs) on Jammu and Kashmir Marcus F. Franda (Colgate University) on West Bengal; Lawrence L. Shrader (Mills College ) on Rajasthan; Hugh Gray (University of London) on Andhra Pradesh; and Baldev Raj Nayar (McGill University) on Punjab. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book provides an important comparative analysis of how Indian federalism and Indian democracy operate within the states of the union. The volume brings together the writings of highly respected scholars in politics each of who examine a distinct analytical problem from the perspective of a two-state comparison. The book deals with four key areas of Indian democracy economic policymaking, subaltern politicization, civic engagement, and political leadership. The subject matter ranges from the reasons why markedly different institutional inheritances and patterns of sociopolitical change in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka nevertheless produced such similar party and electoral systems, to an explanation for the differing levels of communal violence in Uttar Pradesh and Kerala. The answers to these and other questions are both illuminating about the nature of democratic practice in contemporary India and instructive about questions of how and on what scale to apply the comparative me thod. It thus sheds light on the nature of democratic practice in contemporary India and provides a useful guide to how comparative analysis, within the confines of a single nation-state, can contribute to the study of political change Contributors include Loraine Kennedy, Aseema Sinha, Sanjay Kumar, Christophe Jaffrelot, Jasmine Zerinini-Brotel, Ashutosh Varshney, Rob Jenkins, James Manor, and Mukulika Banerjee