The Vernacularisation of Democracy: Politics, Caste and Religion in India (Exploring the Political in South Asia)

by Lucia Michelutti (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $136.75

  Provides an ethnographic exploration of how 'democracy' takes social and cultural roots in India and in the process shapes the nature of popular politics. This book centres on a historically marginalised caste who has become one of the most assertive and politically powerful communities in North India: the Yadavs.