Power, Protest and Participation: Local Elites and Development in India Book

	Glossary
	List of Illustrations
	Preface
1	Local Elites and the Politics of Rural Development	1
	The Problem Defined	1
	Putting Local Development in the Context of Social and Economic Change	3
	Power, Protest and Legitimacy	6
	The Political Universe of India's Rural Elites	11
	The Region and Local Elites as Key Parameters of the Model of Development	14
	An Alternative View of Local Elites as Socially Cohesive 'Dominant' Elites	22
	Post-Independence Development Policy in India	23
	The Social Consequences of Development	26
	Protest Movements as an Alternative Form of Political Action	28
	An Interactive Model of Participation in Development	30
	The Context of Research	33
	Plan of the Book	37
2	The Regional Context: The Social and Economic Background of Rural Development	38
	The Objectives	38
	The Regional Government and Policy Environment as Elements of the National Development Grid	41
	The Institutions Connected with Development at the District Level	51
	Surat District: Historical Background and Institutional Facilities	52
	Politics and Social Mobility	59
	Dhenkanal District	62
3	The Elements of Design	76
	The Objectives	76
	The Personal and Social Attributes of Local Elites	80
	Stratification below the District Level	83
	Use of the Reputational Method for the Identification of the Interview Sample	86
	Inherited Status and Acquired Power: The Socio-demographic Profile of the Sample	89
	The Social Heterogeneity of Local Elites	91
	Intergenerational Mobility	97
	Organisational Affiliation and Elite Status	199
4	Setting the Local Agenda: The Problems, Progress and Agency of Rural Development	107
	The Objectives	107
	The Key Role of Local Elites as Opinion Makers	110
	The Scope for Local Choice in Social and Economic Change	112
	Room for Local Initiative	113
	The Conceptualisation of Social and Economic Change	122
	Solutions	129
	The Effect of Social Class	131
	A General Evaluation of Progress	135
5	The Social Construction of Local Conflict: Unequal Benefits, Radical Protest and Social Cohesion	141
	The Objectives	141
	Economic Change and Local Conflict	142
	Radicalisation of the Local Political Arena	152
	The Social Correlates of Radicalism	156
	Conflict and Cohesion in the Local Arena	161
6	Institutional Participation and Radical Protest: The State, Society and Room for Manoeuvre in the Middle	173
	The Objectives	173
	The Rational, Moral and Cultural Models of Action	174
	Local Elites and the Development Environment	178
	The Nature of Elite Initiative and Efficacy	184
	Socio-structural and Political Factors in the Benefits of Development	193
	The Relationship of Institutional Participation and Radical Protest	198
7	Conclusion: The Two Faces of Development: Protest and Participation in India	206
	The Problem Restated	206
	Order, Development and the Polarisation Thesis	211
	Situating the Model in the Indian Context	216
	The Field Strategy for Identifying Rural Netas	218
	The Rhetoric of Local Development	220
	Region, Class and the Formation of Political Communities	221
	General Implications of the Model of the Two Faces of Development	228
	The State and Local Development in India	232
	Appendix	243
	The Background of the Survey	243
	The Questionnaire and the Principal Results of the Survey	245
	Notes	262
	Bibliography	290
	Author Index	307
	Subject Index	309