Despite the state : why India lets its people down and how they cope.
Rajshekhar, M.
Despite the state : why India lets its people down and how they cope. / M. Rajshekhar. - New Delhi : Westland, , 2021. - 289p. : 24cm.
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.
9789395073417
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Democracy
Governance
People down
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Despite the state : why India lets its people down and how they cope. / M. Rajshekhar. - New Delhi : Westland, , 2021. - 289p. : 24cm.
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.
9789395073417
International Book Distributors : Flat No.-17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi
Democracy
Governance
People down
321.40 RAJ
