Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India

by Mukulika Banerjee

Book Overview

An ethnographic study of Indian democracy that shows how agrarian life creates values of citizenship and active engagement that are essential for the cultivation of democracy.

Cultivating Democracy provides a compelling ethnographic analysis of the relationship between formal political institutions and everyday citizenship in rural India. Banerjee draws on deep engagement with the people and social life in two West Bengal villages...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197601871
• ISBN13: 9780197601877
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"