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028			_a: International Book Distributors _b: Flat No.-17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi _c: 122163 _d; 10/11/2025
082			_a321.40 RAJ
100			_aRajshekhar, M.
245			_aDespite the state _b: why India lets its people down and how they cope. _c/ M. Rajshekhar.
260			_aNew Delhi _b: Westland, _c, 2021.
300			_a289p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b349
520			_aThe 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.
650			_aDemocracy
650			_aGovernance
650			_aPeople down
700			_a M. Rajshekhar
942			_cBOOK
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