Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-312) and index.
Contents:
Uttar Pradesh : into the twenty-first century / Jens Lerche, Roger Jeffery -- Development priorities : views from below in UP / G.K. Lieten -- A uniform customary Code? : marital breakdown and women's economic entitlements in rural Bijnor / Patricia Jeffery -- Responses to modernity : female education, gender relations and regional identity in the Hills of Uttar Pradesh / Joanne Moller -- Divided we stand : identity and protest in the demand for a separate hill state in the UP hills / Emma Mawdsley -- The BJP and the rise of Dalits in Uttar Pradesh / Christophe Jaffrelot, Jasmine Zerinni-Brotel and Jayati Chaturvedi -- Hamlet, village and region : caste and class differences between low-caste mobilization in East and West UP / Jens Lerche -- Modelling institutional fate : the case of a farmers' movement in Uttar Pradesh / Staffan Lindberg and Stig Toft Madsen -- Soft states, hard bargains : rich farmers, class reproduction and the local state in rural North India / Craig Jeffery -- The newspapers of Lucknow : journalism and modernity / Per Stahlberg -- Creative television in the Siti of Varanasi : television and public spheres in the satellite era / Simon Roberts.
Summary:
With reference to changes in Uttar pradesh, India since 1970; contributed articles.
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